Instruction manual

Designing and Planning an M2150 System
34 Access Control Design Guide
Server (holds local databases)
Networked Clients
Region 1
Global Client
Region 2
Server
(holds local databases)
Server
(holds local databases)
Networked Clients
Networked Clients
Access-control equipment is
connected to each regional
system in the normal way.
Region 0 (Head Office)
Figure 2-9: Example Global Edition System, with Global Clients
Global edition supports "Global Clients", which can connect to the head office or any region and log on as if
they were a local client of that site. This gives true remote management of sites, allowing full access
(dependent upon operator permissions) for history reporting, card administration and control of readers,
doors and monitor points. Global Clients have no attached access-control hardware.
Optionally, Global Clients can also be provided with alarms-handling capabilities. This allows the head
office or regions to communicate alarms to the Global Client for centralized alarm notification and
management. Alarms can be routed to Global Clients at specified periods of the day, such as during out-of-
hours periods.
A further option of the Global edition system provides central card handling (Figure 2-10). This allows card
holders to be defined centrally, assigned to one or more sites, then automatically imported to each site.
This facility not only provides a multi-site organization with the improved efficiency of central card
management, but also provides the ideal solution when persons require access to more than one site,
since one operation adds cards to all the required locations.