Configuring Synergis IX settings for cardholders - Australia and New Zealand only

Synergis™ IX Deployment Guide

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Synergis IX
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Last updated
2025-03-05

When Synergis™ IX is enabled in your system, you have additional cardholder settings to configure.

Before you begin

Create cardholders in Security Center.

After the Synergis IX controllers are connected the to the Synergis™ Cloud Link appliance and added in Security Center, the rights of the default Master and Installer users set in Synergis IX are removed to prevent users from being able to modify or delete cardholders through the intrusion keypad. These operations should only be done through Config Tool.

Best Practice: Create a new Installer user with limited access to the intrusion keypad by creating a cardholder in Security Center and assigning it to a cardholder group with the Synergis IX Menu option set to Installer.

What you should know

Cardholders are pushed from Security Center to Synergis IX controllers as users.

Procedure

  1. From the Config Tool homepage, open the Access control task, and click the Cardholders and credentials view.
  2. Click the cardholder you want to configure and click the Synergis™ IX tab.
  3. Configure the following Synergis IX settings:
    Has duress PIN
    When enabled, the cardholder can enter a duress code, allowing access but sending a silent alarm to the offsite monitoring station. The duress code is the last digit of a cardholder's PIN plus 1. For example, if the user's PIN is 1234 but the PIN is entered as 1235, it is processed as a duress code. Note that the plus 1 counter applies to the last digit only. This means if the user PIN is 1239, the PIN to trigger a duress code would be entered as 1230.
    Go to menu on logon
    When enabled, the cardholder is taken directly to the main menu and not shown the area control functions. Display of the area control is by default. Enable this option for cardholders who would not normally perform area operations on the keypad.
    Greet user
    When enabled, the cardholder is shown a greeting upon entering their code on an LCD user station.

    To display the cardholder's name in the greeting (for example, Good Morning John Smith) you must enable the Include identifiable personal data in synchronization option under the Access Manager role's properties. Disabling this option takes the cardholder to the area control menu or directly to the main menu.

    Disabling the Greet user setting does not get rid of the greeting because the setting is overridden by the same setting in the menu group associated with the keypad. To get rid of the greeting, refer to step 5 in Configuring Synergis IX area groups.

    Show alarm on logon
    When enabled, the cardholder is shown upon logon the memory of any alarms that have occurred on the primary area that the keypad is assigned. This option can be overridden by the same option in the menu group.
    Phone extension
    If an entry station is integrated with the Synergis IX system, users' phone extensions can be extracted if entered in this field.
    Reporting ID
    The code by which the cardholder is reported to a monitoring station. ContactID, SIA, and ReportIP use this code.
  4. Click Apply.

Results

The new settings are automatically pushed to the Synergis IX controllers connected to your unit.