Limitations in Synergis™ Softwire 11.3.0 - Synergis™ Softwire 11.3.0

Synergis™ Softwire Release Notes 11.3.0

Applies to
Synergis™ Softwire 11.3.0
Last updated
2022-03-03
Content type
Release notes
Language
English
Product
Synergis™ Softwire
Version
11.3

Synergis™ Softwire 11.3.0 includes the following known limitations.

Interface module Issue First reported in Description
All 2814411 11.2.0 Global antipassback does not work with more than 50,000 cardholders.
All 2239265 11.0.0 Applying a Cumulative Security Rollup on a Synergis™ Cloud Link with a production image earlier than 3.5 fails silently.
Workaround: Install the Windows Management 5.1 package before installing the Cumulative Security Rollup.
All 1572489 10.7 GA In Security Center 5.7 SR2 and later, when a hardware zone arming input goes into a trouble state, it leaves the zone in a state where some other transition events might no longer work.
Workaround: Set the arming input to a normal state, then make it active again to rearm the zone after the input enters a trouble state.
All 790023 10.6 GA When a door is in maintenance mode, setting a threat level with security clearance has no effect, so the door remains unlocked.
All 2150593 10.3 GA Synergis™ Appliance Portal: units running Synergis™ Softwire 10.3 cannot be upgraded using the portal.
Workaround: Log on to the legacy portal at https://<IP address>/smc/upgrade.html to run the upgrade.
All 501667 10.2 GA Hardware configuration modifications cause all interfaces on same channel to briefly disconnect from the Synergis™ unit.
All 350658 10.1 GA Threat level with security clearance: If a door has a configuration modification when a threat level is active, the unlock schedule is not reapplied on that door when the threat level is deactivated.
All 226680 10.0 GA Interlock: On an area with interlock enabled, if a door is configured to automatically grant REX, the system cannot prevent that door from unlocking on REX if another door is still open.
Workaround: For Mercury controllers, starting in Synergis™ Softwire 11.1, you can enable the Mercury native area control setting in Synergis™ Appliance Portal to use interlock offline.
All 224112 10.0 GA When the two-person rule is in effect, the reader LED remains lit in red instead of flashing red and green, until the second person presents their credential. Mercury controllers are the exception; they set the reader LED to green while waiting for the second credential.
All 200575 10.0 GA When the first-person-in rule is enforced on schedules with multiple time intervals, the Supervisor in event is not generated if the supervisor arrives before the end of the current time interval, even if it is within the On-site time offset value.
Workaround: This limitation does not prevent the restriction from being cleared. To generate the Supervisor in event every time it is needed, ensure that the gaps between time intervals are larger than the On-site time offset value, or only use schedules with a single time interval.
All 193873 10.0 GA In areas where visitors need escorts, the visitors are immediately denied access when they use their invalid credentials, such as unknown card or wrong PIN, instead of waiting for the escorts to present their valid credentials. Furthermore, if the escorts present their credentials immediately after the visitors have presented theirs, the system grants the escorts access as sole users, not escorts to visitors.
All 184882 SMC 2.2 SR1 Synergis™ Appliance Portal: After restarting the system, the output relays that are not configured on doors are shown in an unknown state in the I/O Diagnostics page.
Workaround: Click each output relay to either set or clear them.
All 167814 SMC 2.2 GA Synergis™ Appliance Portal: When Synergis™ Softwire is used for elevator control and the Free access is when the output relay is option for the elevator entity is set to NORMAL in Security Center, the output states are shown as the opposite of the actual relay states in the I/O diagnostics page.
All 87967 SMC 2.0 LA After a hardware restart due to battery failure, the Synergis™ unit clock is reset. When the unit reconnects to the Access Manager, events that are triggered have incorrect timestamps. Access Manager synchronizes the current date and time with the Synergis™ unit, and the unit reconnects a second time.
All 83911 SMC 2.0 LA Custom input values from any interface module are used only when the input is configured as 4-state supervised in Config Tool.
Allegion Schlage ENGAGE IP 2821885 11.2.0 The door lock state of FE410 Control locks is always displayed as locked in Security Center regardless of the deadbolt state.
Aperio 2432257 10.11 SR1 When a door with an Aperio G100 digital lock is on an unlock schedule, the door does not go back to the unlocked state when the deadbolt is unlocked after being locked.
Aperio 258795 10.0 GA Aperio: If the lock is tampered, it becomes offline after approximately 2 minutes and remains offline until the tampering condition is cleared.
Aperio 153716 SMC 2.2 LA Aperio: Standard door, REX, and deadbolt events such as Door opened, Door closed, Request to exit, and Deadbolt unlocked are not reported in Security Desk when the Aperio door is unlocked.
Assa Abloy IP 2673023 11.2.1 When the lock is in passage mode, the Override unlock schedule action in Security Desk does not override the state of the door lock.
Assa Abloy IP 600479 10.3 GA Assa Abloy IP locks: The door property When door is unlocked by schedule: Ignore 'Door open too long' events is not applied in some cases.
Assa Abloy IP 540427 10.2 GA Assa Abloy IP locks: When a new valid credential is badged on a legacy WiFi P2 Cylindrical lock, sometimes a second badge is required to unlock the door.
Assa Abloy IP 260606 10.2 GA Assa Abloy IP locks: When set to relock on close, the door relocks after the grant time expires if held open.
Assa Abloy IP 336228 10.1 GA Assa Abloy IP locks: The maximum entry time allowed for a Card and PIN mode is 256 seconds. This amount is lower than the maximum of 999 allowed in the entry field.
Assa Abloy IP 118015 SMC 2.1 LA Assa Abloy IP locks: Door locks immediately upon opening, even if a lock relay delay is configured for the lock.
Assa Abloy IP 111055 SMC 2.1 LA Assa Abloy IP locks: The Trigger output action is not supported.
Assa Abloy IP 110169 SMC 2.1 LA Assa Abloy IP WiFi locks: Door opened and Door closed events are not supported.
Assa Abloy IP 109323 SMC 2.1 LA Assa Abloy IP locks: During door unlock schedules, no event is triggered in Security Desk when you present a valid PROX or MAGSTRIPE card.
Assa Abloy IP 109009 SMC 2.1 LA Assa Abloy IP locks: If a key is used to open the lock, the Door forced open event is reported instead of the Key override event.
Assa Abloy IP 108940 SMC 2.1 LA Assa Abloy IP locks: For locks with internal door sensors, the Door open too long event is sometimes reported twice.
Assa Abloy IP 108731 SMC 2.1 LA Assa Abloy IP locks: When a new unlock schedule is added to a door while the door is locked by an unlock schedule override, the door unlocks for a few seconds.
Assa Abloy IP 108330 SMC 2.1 LA Assa Abloy IP locks: When you override unlock schedules, the time stamp of the scheduled lock event is different from the time the door is locked.
AutoVu™ 2552629 11.1.0 Adding a SharpV unit on the Hardware page in Synergis™ Appliance Portal does not work if the username contains capital letters.
Axis 2426030 11.0.0 The reader LED does not blink red and green while in Door Forced (DFO) or Door Held Open (DHO) alarm.
Axis 2415657 11.0.0 Axis A1601: The Door Monitor input is electrically 4-State Supervised, but when in the Cut or Short state, the Door Monitor input is reported as Trouble Open in Security Center.
Axis 2341278 10.11 GA Door forced open and Door held open events are not generated for readerless doors.
Axis 2121955 10.9 GA OSDP readers configured to a baud rate other than 9600 bps do not produce card reads.
Workaround: Set the reader to 9600 bps.
Axis 1770320 10.9 GA Axis A1001: On a door set to relock after opening, the event is only triggered when the door closes even though the lock behaves as configured.
Axis 723441 10.6 GA Axis A1001: A door that is already open can only be unlocked by manually unlocking it in Security Center.
Axis 780112 10.4 GA Axis A1001: Door open too long events are duplicated if they are triggered while the unit is offline.
Axis 771427 10.4 GA When access is denied while the unit is offline, only a generic Access denied event is reported when the unit returns online. The reason for the denied access is lost.
Axis 727550 10.4 GA Axis A1001: Outputs are shown as Active in Config Tool when a door is opened and set to relock n seconds after opening, even though the outputs are in the Normal state.
Axis 691056 10.4 GA Config Tool: Axis OSDP readers are shown as Wiegand readers in the Peripherals page.
Axis 216548 10.1 GA Axis: A reboot of the Streamvault appliance is required when adding an Axis controller on a port other than the default one.
Axis 154997 10.0 GA Axis: A credential that uses an unknown bit-count can be interpreted as an existing credential that uses a longer bit-count.
Axis 148367 SMC 2.2 LA When a reader is running in mode 14, the controller rejects PINs lower than 128.
DDS 254359 10.0 GA DDS: When the module is disconnected from the Synergis™ unit, the reader LED does not stay green on Access granted for the whole duration of the grant time.
DDS 213188 10.0 GA When more credentials are pushed to the DDS module than its memory chip can handle (maximum is 20,000), no error is received.
DDS 69241 SMC 2.0 LA When a DDS controller is disconnected from the Synergis™ unit, connected readers that are in Card and PIN mode grant access without the PIN.
HID 2142668 10.8 SR1 When the HID PIV Authentication mode type is set to passthrough mode (mode 0) at the door, pivClass readers do not return card reads.
HID 2055777 10.10 GA HID rev E readers: If the serial numbers of two OSDP readers differ only by their leftmost digits, both will have the same unique identifier (UID) in Security Center. In this case, using the UID as an identifier for key storage causes a conflict while attempting to pair the readers for Encrypted communication.
Workaround: Use fixed keys rather than random keys.
HID 118358 SMC 2.1 LA For locks controlled by HID VertX modules, door unlock schedules are temporarily ignored upon the unit restarting.
Honeywell & Mercury 284415 11.1.0 When turning door maintenance on or off, the state of the lock relay changes several times before the change is applied.
Honeywell & Mercury 2098922 10.9 GA Elevators: For an elevator floor that is in free access when a Cardholder badges on the cabin reader, the Mercury controller reports an Access Granted event regardless of access rules assigned to floors. The floor outputs behave correctly according to access rules and schedules.
Honeywell & Mercury 380352 10.1 GA When an input or an output is used by both a door and a zone, including outputs linked through event-to-actions, the zone does not work.
Honeywell & Mercury 358779 10.1 GA If the option to automatically grant REX is disabled, the door does not unlock, but the Door unlocked message is still generated.
Honeywell & Mercury 285124 10.1 GA If a reader is shunted while the door is forced opened, the Door forced open event is cleared.
Honeywell & Mercury 252908 10.0 GA When the controller is disconnected from the Synergis™ unit, access decisions become slow for 15 to 20 seconds.
Honeywell & Mercury 252310 10.0 GA The PIN entry timeout setting is fixed at 10 seconds, regardless of the value you set in Config Tool.
Honeywell & Mercury 246610 10.0 GA When the EP controller is not connected to the Synergis™ unit, the Access granted events follow the timestamps of the Door locked events instead of the Door unlocked events.
Honeywell & Mercury 217785 10.0 GA Assigned REX inputs do not show their state change in the Synergis™ Appliance Portal I/O diagnostics page or the Config Tool Peripherals page.
Workaround: Monitor these inputs through the doors that they are assigned to in Security Desk.
Mercury 2938709 11.3.0 The PIN value is not included in Access granted and Access denied events for Mercury controllers.
Mercury 2862470 11.2.1 When you create a hardware zone using a Mercury input that is offline, the Active state event you configured on the Properties page of that zone is triggered.
Workaround: Do one of the following:
  • Use I/O zones instead of hardware zones.
  • Create the hardware zone, select all required inputs, select a Normal state event, but leave the Active state event blank. Save the configuration, and then set the Active state event.
Mercury 2697326 11.2.0 When an interlock area is accessed by a REX, the interlock might not be applied correctly if the Door opened event is received before the Door locked event.
Workaround: Use Mercury's native interlock feature by enabling the Mercury native area control option in the Synergis™ Synergis™ Appliance Portal.
Mercury 2596313 11.1.0 If you enable Mercury Extended grant time REX mode, the door locks at the end of an unlock schedule, regardless of the REX state.
Mercury 2542369 11.1.0 Interlock behavior is not applied on doors that have the two-person rule enabled, unless the Mercury native area control setting is enabled in the Synergis™ Appliance Portal.
Mercury 2109129 11.1.0 Even though the max occupancy limit of an area should only allow one more cardholder to enter, a visitor and their escort are both granted access.
Mercury 2360545 10.11 GA After upgrading Synergis™ Softwire from 10.7 to 10.9 or later, Mercury EP controllers might be reset and the configuration repushed.
Mercury 2344201 11.0.0 A door with two-person rule controlled by Mercury hardware requires credentials to be finished synchronizing to the Mercury controller to grant access.
Mercury 2243747 10.11 GA When Classroom door mode and the two-person rule are both configured on the door, one of them does not work.
Mercury 2100209 10.11 GA The Door open too long event is not triggered while the door is unlocked by an unlock schedule or when the schedule ends, and the door is already open.
Mercury 2211589 10.10 GA The Maximum delay between card presentations setting from Config Tool is not applied. The value is fixed at 15 seconds for all Mercury controllers.
Workaround: Starting in Synergis™ Softwire 11.3, you can change the value for all Mercury controllers from the Mercury controller settings page in the Synergis™ Appliance Portal.
Mercury 2156352 10.10 GA Allegion Schlage: After cardholder or credential synchronization, REX events are logged, but do not always show up in the Monitoring task.
Mercury 2223887 10.9 SR1 Upgrading a Synergis™ unit to version 10.9 SR1 or later can cause a Mercury hardware reset. All events generated from the moment of the reset until the Mercury controllers are back online are lost.
Mercury 2211587 10.9 SR1 A cardholder with multiple card credentials can use two of them on the same door to bypass the two-person rule.
Mercury 1957467 10.9 GA Mercury EP4502 with TI EntryPoint plugin and Veridt PIV reader: Presenting a valid card might trigger reader errors.
Mercury 1678748 10.9 GA When running TI EntryPoint on an EP4502, disconnecting the controller from the Synergis™ unit and leaving it offline for several days does not cause PIV cards to expire.
Mercury 1892852 10.8 GA Mercury EP4502: The Mercury controller resets after Synergis™ Softwire 10.5 is upgraded to a later version, which might cause delays between a card read and Door unlocked event, while the data is being synchronized to the controller.
Mercury 258707 10.7 GA When set to Card or PIN, if a cardholder only has a PIN credential, that credential is not synched to the EP controller and does not work.
Workaround: Create and assign the cardholder a dummy card credential.
Mercury 1350397 10.6 GA Allegion Schlage AD-400 or LE: In apartment mode, an Access granted event while the door is locked unlocks the door and set Apartment: On, but the door does not stay unlocked.
Mercury 1350376 10.6 GA After an EP2500 power cycles, Allegion Schlage AD-400 and LE locks with extended door modes report mode:on, though the mode is off until the next transition.
Mercury 385565 10.1 GA Mercury: M5-2RP and M5-2SRP readers do not work in supervised F2F mode.
Workaround: Short DISP and WD1 connections on the reader port.
Mercury 358327 10.1 GA Mercury-M5: Supervised reader inputs (door contact and REX) are working as non-supervised inputs for the F2F 940 Casi-Rusco readers.
Mercury 217770 10.0 GA Neither entry sensors nor multiple door lock outputs are supported by Mercury EP controllers.
RIO 2230424 10.10 GA Door entities managed by RIO devices: When Access Granted is produced by an OfflineDecision call, entry is assumed regardless of whether or not the door was opened or the entry sensor was activated.
SALLIS 165400 SMC 2.2 GA SALTO SALLIS: To unlock with a key, the key must be turned halfway, but the key sensor is not triggered. To trigger the key sensor, the key must be turned 180 degrees, but the door does not unlock.
SALLIS 163681 SMC 2.2 GA Synergis™ Appliance Portal-SALTO SALLIS: New locks that are added with encryption enabled appear offline (in red) until encryption is properly configured on the SALTO channel.
SALLIS 147765 SMC 2.2 GA SALTO SALLIS: None of the timeouts (Standard grant time, Access time, Extended grant time, lock relay, and so on) configured in Security Center and Synergis™ Softwire apply to the SALLIS lock. The lock only supports the concept of grant time (default is 6 seconds) and it must be set in the SALLIS application (see the Synergis™ Softwire Integration Guide for SALTO SALLIS Wireless Locks).
SALLIS 147232 SMC 2.2 GA SALTO SALLIS: The Request to exit events are not always shown in the Security Desk Monitoring task, because the lock only reports them once every 40 seconds.
Synergis™ IX 2990788 11.3.0 Offline expanders on Synergis™ IX controllers cause module restart messages to be generated on the Intrusion Manager every minute.
Workaround: Delete expanders that are not physically present.
Synergis™ IX 2967251 11.3.0 When using RS-485 readers on Synergis™ IX, 26-bit credentials might be reported as 34-bit credentials.
Workaround: You can enroll the same card data as a 34-bit credential and it will work correctly.
Synergis™ IX 2047917 11.3.0 For Synergis™ IX controllers, if you force open a door, and leave it open, the Door open too long event is not generated because the Forced open state has a higher priority alarm condition than the Left open state.
Synergis™ IX 2315885 10.11 GA When you enter a valid PIN on a Synergis™ IX panel, the message No Keypad Area Group defined is displayed, even though the keypad area group does not need to be defined.
Workaround: Add a door entity under your area so that the PIN is synchronized.
Synergis™ IX 2315882 10.11 GA If no DHCP server is available on your network when the Synergis™ IX unit is powered on, the unit might not use the expected default 192.168.1.2 address.
Synergis™ IX 2229917 10.11 GA All Synergis™ IX units are added to the first Intrusion Manager role when enrolled; there is no load balancing. The number of intrusion units and devices you can have on one system is limited to the number that a single Intrusion Manager can support, which is about 300 units with 80 devices.
Synergis™ IX 2188777 10.11 GA When multiple cardholders badge in, but the door only opens once, only the last cardholder appears in the People counting task.
Synergis™ IX 2159003 10.10 GA ABA credentials are not recognized over Wiegand.
Synergis™ IX 2047499 10.10 GA Logging in at a keypad does not show a login event in the Security Center Monitoring task.
Synergis™ IX 2047303 10.10 GA Synergis™ IX readers: After entering a duress PIN at the door reader, the duress event is triggered; no other duress events can be generated from the reader until a non-duress Access granted event occurs.
Synergis™ IX 2046998 10.10 GA Synergis™ IX intrusion keypads: After entering a duress PIN at the keypad, the duress event is triggered; no other duress events can be generated from the keypad until another cardholder enters a non-duress PIN.
Synergis™ IX 2026254 10.11 GA If there are no cardholders with cards of a supported format in any access rules on a Synergis™ IX unit, access is not granted when a valid PIN is entered on its Wiegand readers.
Workaround: Create a cardholder with a card of a supported format and an access rule that never has a valid schedule.
Synergis™ IX 2046982 10.10 GA The Synergis™ IX intrusion keypad only registers the first eight digits of a cardholder's PIN, even though the keypad reader accepts all digits. This results in two admissible PINs at the intrusion keypad.
Synergis™ IX 2026672 10.10 GA If you configure a reader's Arming Mode field on the Reader Expander page of the Synergis™ IX controller web portal, the reader performs the configured action even if the door is set to maintenance mode in Security Center.
Synergis™ IX 1968897 10.10 GA Access denied events for out-of-schedule access rules are not reported on the exit reader.
Synergis™ IX 1959763 10.10 GA When a door with a Synergis™ IX controller switches the Unlocked for maintenance option from ON to OFF, it sends both Scheduled lock and Scheduled unlock events.
Synergis™ IX 1956962 10.10 GA Making configuration changes from the Synergis™ IX interface web portal causes the interface to momentarily drop offline in Security Center as the configuration reloads.
Synergis™ IX 1952529 10.10 GA If an area is in an alarm state, silencing the alarm also disarms it.
Synergis™ IX 1903929 10.10 GA For cardholders with multiple PINS in Security Center, only one them gets synchronized to the Synergis™ IX controller.