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Reset and Deep Reset — These options allow you to perform a reset and a deep
reset on a reader from within the software. The function is the same as perform-
ing a manual reset or deep reset at the reader hardware.
Remove Association with Portal — This command is useful when the reader has
associated with a different Portal or is being removed from the segment. When
you remove the reader’s association with the assigned Portal, it will search for
another Portal and resume communication.
Lock/Unlock Association with Portal — Locking a reader’s association with a
Portal will disallow its communication with other Portals. Unlocking an associa-
tion will re-allow communication with other Portals in range.
Synchronize All Data — This command will resend all reader information to the
Portal and update the reader hardware.
Note All overrides must be recognized and executed by the Portal within five minutes
of the command or they become obsolete. This feature ensures that commands
executed during period when the hardware cannot respond are not executed
when the hardware is back online.
Configuring Timezones
For the greatest majority of facilities, the default access level provided in the
Master Timezone gives you all the options you need to manage your segment.
The system works by defining different access levels at a controller rather than
different times of day the segment is locked or unlocked. However, it may become
necessary to define a new Timezone under certain circumstances. For example,
you may want to define a separate Timezone for a specific set of readers that
would operate on a totally different schedule from the main system. For this ap-
plication, you would create a different Timezone and then assign the readers to
that Timezone.
Timezones are created and configured in the Timezones tab within the Configura-
tor module. Three sub-tabs exist inside the Timezone tab:
 Interval Collections — this is a collection of recurring ranges of time and days
of the week, such as 6:00 am to 6:00 pm weekdays AND 8:00 am to 8:00 pm
weekends.
 Reader Control — this is where you assign access levels to readers and deter-
mine how the reader will operate during assigned timezone intervals.
 User Group Collections: this is where you can add user groups to a collection
and define timezone intervals to the collection.