Investigating reported hit statistics - Security Center 5.11

Security Center User Guide 5.11

Product
Security Center
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Guides > User guides
Version
5.11
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Last updated
2024-07-05

You can quickly investigate hit statistics within a time range and geographic area, using the hits statistics report.

What you should know

To view your query results in the canvas, you must know how to monitor ALPR events in Security Desk.

Procedure

  1. From the homepage, open the Hits task.
  2. To restrict your search to one or more specific areas, click the Region filter and create one or more regions in your map as follows:
    1. Click Switch to map mode.
    2. To draw a region such as a rectangle or a polygon, click Draw region and do the following:
      1. Click the map to create the first endpoint and drag the mouse pointer in the required direction.
      2. Click every time for each endpoint you want to create.
      3. Click the first endpoint to close the polygon.
      A numbered Region box is created.
    3. To import regions using KML files, do the following:
      1. Click .
      2. Select the required KML files.
      3. Click Open.
      NOTE: If an imported region has inner boundaries, it is not supported. For example: if you import a donut shape region, the inner boundary is automatically filled.
    4. To resize the region, drag the required endpoints.
    5. To move the region, drag each endpoint to the required location.
    6. Create other regions as required.
    7. Select the regions of interest.
      To view all the regions you created, click in the Filters tab.
  3. Set up the other query filters for your report. Choose one or more of the following filters:
    Accept reasons
    Reason selected by the Patroller user when enforcing a hit. Accept reasons are created and customized in Config Tool.
    Action taken
    Patroller hit actions (Accepted, Rejected, Not enforced) selected by the Patroller user. For fixed Sharps, a hit raised by the Hit Matcher module is always automatically Accepted and Enforced.
    Annotation fields
    Patroller hit annotations used by the Patroller user.
    Custom fields
    Restrict the search to a predefined custom field for the entity. This filter only appears if custom fields are defined for the entity, and if the custom field was made visible to you when it was created or last configured.
    Event timestamp
    Define the time range for the query. You can define the time range for a specific period or a relative period, such as the previous week or the previous month.
    Hit rules
    Select the hit rules to include in the report.
    Hit type
    Select the type of hits to include in the report: Permit, Shared permit, Overtime, and Hotlist.
    License plate
    Enter a full or partial license plate number. To enter multiple license plates, see Filtering a report with multiple license plates
    ALPR units - Patrollers
    Restrict the search to Patroller units and fixed ALPR units.
    Offload timestamp
    The date and time that the Patroller offloaded the reads/hits to Security Center.
    Reject reason
    Reason selected by the Patroller user when rejecting a hit. Reject reasons are created and customized in Config Tool. This filter only affects the value in the Rejected hits column.
    Users
    Select the Patroller user name, or the Patrollers’ parent user groups.
  4. Expand the options under the Generate report button and select Generate report statistics.
    The hits are listed in the report pane.
  5. (Optional) To add columns to the report pane, do the following:
    1. Right-click a column name in the report pane.
    2. Click Select columns on the pop-up menu. You can also use keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+C.
      Adding columns to reports pane
    3. From the Available columns menu, select required columns and click .
    4. Click OK.
    Tip: You can add annotation fields as columns in the report pane.

Example

If you must quickly report how many hits occurred in a specific region at a certain time, you can select the region, and the time range.