Mustering cardholders to a mustering area - Mustering 3.0

Mustering Task Guide 3.0
Applies to
Mustering 3.0
Last updated
2020-01-21
Content type
Guides
Guides > Plugin and extension guides
Language
English
Product
Mustering
Version
3.0

During emergency evacuations, people must gather to designated assembly points, and confirm their presence by badging their credentials on site. The corresponding cardholders are then mustered to the mustering area in Security Center.

Before you begin

What you should know

All cardholders are moved when their credential is presented to the USB reader, regardless of the cardholder status. However, operators receive a warning message if disabled cardholders, cardholders with lost, stolen, or inactive credentials, and expired visitors are mustered.

Procedure

  1. Connect the USB reader to the client workstation.
  2. From the home page in Security Desk or Config Tool, open the Mustering task.
  3. In the General configuration pane, select the Card reader type from the list, and then click Refresh ().
    The Reader connection status changes from Not connected to Present a card.

  4. Click the Mustering area field to open the Select mustering area dialog box, and select an area to muster cardholders to.
  5. (Optional) Click the button to browse for a different folder to save the current file in.
  6. (Optional) Select the Load pictures check box to display cardholder pictures in the report pane.
  7. Do one of the following:

Results

The cardholder associated to the presented credential is moved to the mustering area, and the People counting task is updated.

After you finish

Generate a report from the Area presence task to see who is still in the building.