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MONITOR AFx™ Director V4.1 User's Guide
500-9041 v4.1
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Allow automating many aspects of an area
including unlocking and relocking doors,
changing access requirements at doors,
and/or having areas arm and disarm
automatically at specific times.
- Holiday/Daylight Savings:
Allows defining
calendar holidays when automated/scheduled
events are (typically) not to occur, plus the
(optional) dates to automatically switch between
standard-time and 'daylight-savings' time.
- Guard Tours:
Allows defining the routes that
guards will follow, to be monitored at desired
times using the guard-tour monitor (description
to follow).
- Configuration:
An extensive list of topics that
allow setting up the "Areas" and all
hardware/devices in a system, including how
each item will operate and/or be monitored by
the system.
- Control & Status:
Allows authorized operators
to view the status or control most items in the
system (as per their associated user
authorities).
Visual Director
(
≥
V4.0)
: Visual
status and control is provided through
customizable 'views' of maps and cameras.
- Guard Tour Monitor:
Allows activating and
monitoring a previously defined 'guard tour' for a
specific guard (user).
(See the third item above.)
Communications
- Pending/Online:
This allows setting up
communications sessions with desired panel(s),
shutting down sessions, and/or checking the
status of a session.
Tip:
Panel communications sessions either update or
synchronize settings between the software and
associated panels. As well, panel communications
are required for updating the monitoring window,
monitoring guard-tours, and checking status or
controlling items.
- Completed:
This shows a list of previous
communications sessions, along with details for
each one (including why a session may have
failed).
- Communication Pool:
This allows setting up
panel connections when first setting up a
system.
Reports
- Panel Configuration:
Customizable reports on
programmed items and settings (all admin. and
configuration topics).
- Users:
Customizable reports on all users, or
ones assigned to specific areas, departments
(custom fields), etc.
- Activity:
Issuing reports to identify various
types of activity that may have occurred in the
system (alarms, access granted, etc.).
- Guard Tour:
Allows reporting on the results of
a previous 'guard tour' monitoring session.
- Time and Attendance:
Reporting on various
aspects of personnel attendance and punctuality
(late arrivals, hours present, etc.).
- Audit Report:
Viewing or printing logs of panel
communications sessions and/or database
changes made by operators.
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