User`s guide

ii VEREX Director V4.73 User's Guide 21-0381E v4.7.3
Checking Status or Controlling Items by Area ........................................................................... 96
Area Users (Ac
tivity, User Count, and APB-Reset)....................................................... 99
Checking User In/Out Status
................................................................................................... 102
Checking Status or Controlling Individual Doors
...................................................................... 104
Checking Status or Controlling Elevators
................................................................................ 106
Checking Status or Controlling Floors
..................................................................................... 108
Checking Status or B
ypassing Input Points (Sensors)............................................................. 110
Checking Status or Controlling Outputs (Electronically
switched Devices)............................. 112
Panel Communications and Updates
................................................................................................. 114
Panel Communications
............................................................................................................ 114
Activating Communications and T
ransferring Panel Settings .................................................. 116
Vie
wing the Status of Previous Communications Sessions ..................................................... 120
Correcting Communication/Update Errors
............................................................................... 122
Checki
ng Account Status (≥V4.4)....................................................................................................... 124
Pane
l Firmware Files, and Updating Panel Firmware (≥V4.4)............................................................ 125
Activating Panel Firm
ware Files............................................................................................... 125
Updating Panel Firmw
are ........................................................................................................ 126
A
dministration and Maintenance ......................................................................................................... 129
Operators (People Who Can Use
This Software)............................................................................... 130
Setting or Changing an Operator's Pass
word.......................................................................... 132
Operator Settings (v4.6)
.......................................................................................................... 134
Operator Permissions
.............................................................................................................. 136
Scheduled Event Filtering for
Operators.................................................................................. 138
Schedules for
User-Access and Area Automation.............................................................................. 140
Holiday
s and Time-Change Dates...................................................................................................... 144
Authorit
y Groups to Manage Large Numbers of Authorities (v4.6) .................................................... 146
Authoriti
es for Users/Entrants (≥V4.4) ................................................................................................ 148
Custom Information Categor
ies for Users (Custom User Information) ............................................... 154
Users (Entrant
s / Panel Users)........................................................................................................... 156
T
he Photo-Badging Option ...................................................................................................... 162
Cards that Hav
e Been Lost...................................................................................................... 166
Fall-Back Users (Can Enter During Comms Failure)
............................................................... 168
S
ystem Maintenance Tasks ............................................................................................................... 170
Pass
word and Personal ID Number (PIN) Issues .................................................................... 170
Large S
ystems--Checking for Software vs. Panel Differences / Conflicts................................ 172
Client/Server S
ystems: Checking to See Who Else is Logged onto the Database ................ 173
Checking / Repairing the VEREX
Director Database Tables ................................................... 174
Backing up or
Restoring the Database .................................................................................... 176
Making
a Database 'Backup' Using the Director Software .......................................... 177
Making
a Database 'Backup' Using the Table Repair Utility........................................ 178
Setting Backups to Occur Automatically
(Scheduled Backups) v4.5........................... 179
Reverting to (Restoring) a Bac
kup Copy of the VEREX Director Database ................ 180
Ex
porting or Importing Activity or Audit Logs (Archive)............................................................ 182
Removing old
Activity or Audit Logs (Purge)............................................................................ 184
Operating Sy
stem Maintenance............................................................................................... 185