To increase the security of your premises and grant access to people upon confirming
their identities, you can add a SIP intercom, and then associate it to various Security Center entities such as a camera or
door.
What you should know
A SIP intercom is an intelligent SIP endpoint that provides
two-way phone connectivity in a SIP environment. In Security Center, a SIP intercom is
one of the established SIP entities, and it is the only SIP entity that is an actual
device. The other SIP entities are Security Center users and ring groups.
Procedure
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Log on to
Security Center with Config Tool.
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Select the Sipelia™ plugin role.
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At the bottom of the page, click Add intercom ().
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Enter a descriptive name for your SIP intercom, and then click Add.
The Area view task opens, and the intercom you
added appears in the list of entities.
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Click the VoIP tab to set up this SIP entity as a SIP
endpoint.
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Assign a SIP extension to your SIP entity in one of the following ways:
- Click Auto-assign. Auto-assign automatically
assigns the SIP entity to the next available phone extension in a given
range. After you click this button, choose an existing range and click
Apply.
- Enter the following manually:
- SIP extension
- The SIP entity's phone extension. To be able to communicate with other SIP endpoints, every
SIP entity (user, ring group, or intercom) in Security Center must have a unique SIP
extension assigned to it.
- Password
- The password for the extension. This password was
specified when creating the extension range. Each
SIP extension within a given range has its password
automatically set to match the default password for
that range.
IMPORTANT: Although you can change the password for a
given SIP extension by simply entering a new password, it is not
recommended to do so here. Change passwords for phone extensions
only in the Server tab of the Sipelia
Plugin role.
NOTE: Auto-assign is the recommended way of
assigning a SIP extension and it automatically populates the
correct password for the range.
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Set the following:
- Record audio and video
- Allows you to record the call sessions that the SIP
entity participates in (either caller or recipient of a call). Once recorded, sessions
can later be reviewed and exported through the Call report task. The default value is
inherited from the global recording settings which are found on the
Recording page of the Sipelia Plugin role. Changing this
setting at the entity level forces the entity to no longer inherit the value from the
global setting, thus allowing you to turn recording on or off for only specific
entities, without affecting all of them.
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Click Apply.
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Add additional SIP intercoms by repeating the steps above.