User guide
Table Of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Specifications and Requirements
- 3. Installation
- 4. System Overview
- 5. How to Set Up a Site
- 5.1 Adding Time Zones
- 5.2 Adding Holidays
- 5.3 Adding a Network
- 5.4 Adding Access Control Panels
- 5.5 Configuring the Doors
- 5.6 Configuring the Readers
- 5.7 Configuring the Inputs
- 5.8 Adding a Camera
- 5.9 Adding Panel Links
- 5.10 Creating Groups
- 5.11 Adding Users and Cards
- 5.12 Adding Departments, Users, and Visitors
- 5.13 Adding Access Areas
- 5.14 Adding Global Antipassback Rules
- 5.15 Car Parking
- 5.16 Adding Operators
- 5.17 Creating Elevator Control
- 5.18 Creating Status Maps
- 6. ViTrax™ Video Integration
- 7. Manual Operation
- 8. AxTraxNG™ Reports
- 9. Administrator Operations
- A. Firewall Configuration
- B. SQL Service Settings
- C. Network Configuration
- D. Restoring Factory Default Settings
- E. Configuring User Counters
- F. Cross Platform Camera Setup
- G. Enrolling Cards using MD-08 Desktop Reader
- H. SQL Server Installation Troubleshoot
- I. AxTrax.NET Watchdog
- J. Adding Custom Wiegand Formats

Administrator Operations
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9.5 AxTraxNG™ Options and Preferences
AxTraxNG™ can be customized to meet the preferences of the operator using
the
Options
window.
To open the Options window:
1. From the menu bar, select Tools > Options.
The Options window has two tabs:
General – General startup and presentation settings
User Custom Fields – Additional user-defined fields for the
User
Properties
window
9.5.1 General Tab
The General tab includes presentation connection settings.
The
General
tab contains the following fields:
Table 21: Tools > Options > General Tab
Field Description
Use highlight
access events
From the Known Key dropdown, select the desired option and click
Select Color to display selected user information in a custom picked
colored highlight.
Click Select Color adjacent to
Unknown key
to define the highlight
color for unknown keys.
Show
download
succeed
Select the checkbox to add a message to the event history upon
successful system parameters download from the AxTraxNG™
software to the panel.
Hide foreign
system events
on this PC
Select the checkbox to see only local administrator and AxTraxNG™
Server messages.
Select Holiday
Click the button to select Microsoft Outlook™ holidays to load into
AxTraxNG™.