To bring your physical access control system into conformity with the US government's Federal Information Processing Standard 201 (FIPS 201), you can enable Personal Identity Verification (PIV), Personal Identity Verification-Interoperable (PIV-I), or Commercial Identity Verification (CIV) credentials using EntryPoint authentication on a Mercury LP4502 controller.
Before you begin
For more information, see Enrolling Mercury controllers on the Synergis™ unit.
Procedure
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Upload the Mercury firmware onto the Synergis™ unit:
- Download the latest firmware from the GTAP Product Download page by selecting the latest version of Synergis™ Softwire from the Download Finder list, and downloading the latest .sfw file listed in the Third Party Firmware Packages section.
- Save the .sfw file on your local drive.
- Log on to the Synergis™ unit.
- Click Maintenance > Softwire upgrade.
- Click Select upgrade file.
- In the file browser that opens, select the .sfw firmware file, and click Open.
- Click Upgrade now.
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For Synergis™ Softwire 11.1 and later, change the
database layout to the Ficam layout by doing the following:
- Log on to your Synergis™ unit, and click Configuration > Mercury controller settings.
- Expand the Database layout settings section, select Ficam from the list, and click Save.
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Perform a software restart on the Synergis™ unit.
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For Synergis™ Softwire versions earlier than 11.1, change
the database layout to the Ficam layout by doing the following:
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Log on to your Synergis™ unit, using
the following URL:
https://<IP address>/MercuryEP/UnitWide/DefaultDbSettings/Set?value=FicamLayoutNOTE: <IP address> is the IP address of your Synergis™ unit.
- On the redirect page that opens, click the link to apply the database layout change.
- Perform a software restart on the Synergis™ unit.
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Log on to your Synergis™ unit, using
the following URL:
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Log back on to your unit using the following URL:
https://<IP address>/MercuryEP/FirmwareVersions
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On the FirmwareVersions page, click Install TI
EntryPoint Embedded package <version>, where <version> is
the latest package version.
Installing and enabling the plugin can take a few minutes.
- Perform a software restart on the Synergis™ unit.
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For Synergis™ Softwire 11.1 and later, enable TI
EntryPoint:
- Log back on to your Synergis™ unit, and click Configuration > Mercury controller settings.
- Expand the Auxiliary authentication module section, select TIEntryPoint from the list, and click Save.
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Perform a software restart on the Synergis™ unit.
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For Synergis™ Softwire versions earlier than 11.1, enable
TI EntryPoint:
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Go to the following:
https://<IP address>/MercuryEP/UnitWide/AAM/Set?value=TIEntryPoint
- On the redirect page that opens, click the link.
- Perform a software restart on the Synergis™ unit.
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Go to the following:
- In Config Tool, create a door and associate the hardware to it.
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Create numeric custom fields for DoorInReaderType and DoorOutReaderType.
NOTE: Leave the Default value set to 0, and use the same Group name for both custom fields.The following values are used by EntryPoint-Embedded:
- 0
- No EntryPoint-Embedded (Default setting)
- 1
- CAK
- 2
- PKI
- 3
- PKI + BIO
- In the Area view task, click the door's Custom fields tab.
- Set the custom field values for the reader types to 0.