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Configuring Portals, Alarms and Intrusion Points

Door Forced/Door Held Configuration​

  • Can be configured at the System, Facility or Portal level and is inherited downward

  • This should be configured at the system and facility level when starting to configure a new system

  • Can either create and Alarm or an Event

  • Best practice is to create an Event for all and then selectively create Alarms as required

For Access Control Systems Only​

Portal Configuration​

  • Turnstiles, Doors, Gates

  • Door Forced/Door Held can be treated as Alarms or Events

  • Best practice is to create an Event for all and then selectively create Alarms as required

  • Alarms need to be managed and cleared, Events do not

  • Door Position Switches (DPS)/Door Contacts should be configured under Inputs

Monitoring Point Configuration​

  • Non-Portal

  • Glass break, temp, motion, sound, smoke, etc.

  • System/Facility/Monitoring Point can be configured to Inherit, Do Nothing, Event, Alarm

  • Do Not create monitoring points for Portal inputs (DPS)

Rules​
  • Rules can be created to create a logical alarm based on an event and do that on schedule
  • Rules can be created to take action based upon and event and do that on schedule

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For Intrusion System Only​

Monitoring Point Configuration​

  • All points are defined as monitoring points

  • For the points that are configured under IPS

  • Set to Do Nothing (IPS takes care of alarms)

  • For the points that are NOT configured under IPS

  • Set to Alarm probably

  • Could also be set to create an event and use Rules to notify

IPS Configuration​

  • Perimeter Points

  • Creates an Intrusion Alarm when “Arm Away”, “Arm Stay” and “Arm Instant”

  • Interior Points

  • Only creates an Intrusion Alarm when “Arm Away”

  • 24/7 Points

  • Always creates an Alarm

  • Define Monitoring Points as IPS Points

  • Put IPS Points in Groups

Rules​
  • Rules can be created to create a logical alarm based on an event and do that on schedule
  • Rules can be created to take action based upon and event and do that on schedule

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Access Control + Intrusion System​

Portal Configuration​

  • Turnstiles, Doors, Gates

  • Door Forced/Door Held can be treated as alarms or events

  • DPS is configured as part of portal

Monitoring Point Configuration​

  • Non-portal points are configured as monitoring points

  • For the points that are configured under IPS

  • Set to Do Nothing (IPS takes care of alarms)

  • For the points that are NOT configured under IPS

  • Set to Alarm probably

  • Could also be set to create an event and use Rules to notify

IPS Configuration​
  • Define Portal Points as IPS points
  • Define IPS Monitoring Points as IPS Points
  • Put IPS Points in IPS Groups
Rules​
  • Rules can be created to create a logical alarm based on an event and do that on schedule
  • Rules can be created to take action based upon and event and do that on schedule