You can investigate events related to doors, using the Door
activities report. Events that you can investigate include Door forced open,
Door open too long, Hardware tamper, and so on.
Procedure
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From the homepage, open the Door activities task.
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Set up the query filters for your report. Choose one or more of
the following filters:
- Side
- Restrict the search to a specific door side.
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Cardholders
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Restrict the search to specific
cardholders, cardholder groups, or visitors.
- Credentials
- Restrict the search to specific credentials.
NOTE: When you filter on a PIN, the
query results don’t include events where that PIN is a supplemental
credential.
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Custom fields
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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.
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Event
timestamp
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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.
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Events
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Select the events of interest. The available
event types depend on the task you are using.
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Click Generate report.
The door events are listed in the report pane.
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To show the corresponding video of an event in a tile,
double-click or drag the item from the report pane to the canvas.
If there’s no camera attached to the door, the door icon is displayed.
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To control the doors, use the door widget.
Example
The following are examples of what you can use the
Door Activities
report for:
- See how many access denied events have occurred in the last week, or since your last
shift.
- Search for critical events, such as Door forced open.
- When you see suspicious cardholder activity while monitoring live video, investigate
what other doors the cardholder accessed in the last day.
- Verify that maintenance staff has completed work at a particular door by filtering on
the Door maintenance completed event.