User`s guide

ii Guardall Director V4.74 User's Guide 21-0381E v4.7.4
Area Users (Activity, User Count, and APB-Reset)....................................................... 82
Checking User In/Out Status ..................................................................................................... 84
Checking Status or Controlling Individual Doors
........................................................................ 85
Checking Status or Controlling Elevators
.................................................................................. 87
Checking Status or Controlling Floors
....................................................................................... 90
Checking Status or B
ypassing Input Points (Sensors)............................................................... 91
Checking Status or Controlling Outputs (Electronically
switched Devices)............................... 93
Panel Communications and Updates
................................................................................................... 95
Panel Communications
.............................................................................................................. 95
Activating Communications and T
ransferring Panel Settings .................................................... 96
Vie
wing the Status of Previous Communications Sessions..................................................... 100
Correcting Communication/Update Errors
............................................................................... 101
Checki
ng Account Status (V4.4)....................................................................................................... 103
Pane
l Firmware Files, and Updating Panel Firmware (V4.4)............................................................ 104
Activating Panel Firm
ware Files............................................................................................... 104
Updating Panel Firmw
are ........................................................................................................ 106
A
dministration and Maintenance ......................................................................................................... 109
Operators (People Who Can Use
This Software)............................................................................... 110
Setting or Changing an Operator's Pass
word.......................................................................... 112
Operator Settings (v4.6)
.......................................................................................................... 113
Operator Permissions
.............................................................................................................. 114
Scheduled Event Filtering for
Operators.................................................................................. 117
Schedules for
User-Access and Area Automation.............................................................................. 119
Holiday
s and Time-Change Dates...................................................................................................... 121
Authorit
y Groups to Manage Large Numbers of Authorities (v4.6) .................................................... 123
Authoriti
es for Users/Entrants (V4.4)................................................................................................ 124
Custom Information Categories for Users (Custom User Information) ............................................... 129
Users (Entrant
s / Panel Users)........................................................................................................... 130
T
he Photo-Badging Option ...................................................................................................... 135
Cards that Hav
e Been Lost...................................................................................................... 140
Fall-Back Users (Can Enter During Comms Failure)
............................................................... 141
S
ystem Maintenance Tasks ............................................................................................................... 143
Pass
word and Personal ID Number (PIN) Issues.................................................................... 143
Large S
ystems--Checking for Software vs. Panel Differences / Conflicts................................ 144
Client/Server S
ystems: Checking to See Who Else is Logged onto the Database ................ 145
Checking / Repairing the Guardall Director Database T
ables.................................................. 146
Backing up or
Restoring the Database .................................................................................... 147
Making
a Database 'Backup' Using the Director Software .......................................... 148
Making
a Database 'Backup' Using the Table Repair Utility........................................ 149
Setting Backups to Occur Automatically
(Scheduled Backups) v4.5........................... 150
Reverting to (Restoring) a Bac
kup Copy of the Guardall Director Database............... 150
Ex
porting or Importing Activity or Audit Logs (Archive)............................................................ 151
Removing old
Activity or Audit Logs (Purge)............................................................................ 153
Operating Sy
stem Maintenance............................................................................................... 154