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Event Monitoring and

Event File Maintenance

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Event Monitoring and Maintenance

• Provides real-time viewing of activity on the access control network

• Provides functions for managing event collection and storage

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Setup Monitors and Events

• Click on the Setup > Monitor and Events pull-down menu option

• The setup window appears

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Monitor View Names

• Provides for three separate monitors – each monitoring different types of events

• You can provide a descriptive name for each monitor– Click in a name field and enter an appropriate name for each

monitor to be used

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Event File Type

• Defines the time period by which event files will be sorted and stored

• Click on the radio button corresponding to the desired event file time period

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Event Auto Collection

• Allows controllers to automatically upload event information when the controllers’ memory reaches a defined limit

• Click in the check box to enable auto collection

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Enable Auto Collection per Controller

• To enable auto collection for individual controllers you must turn dialout enable ON and set a threshold percentage via the Setup > System > Controllers pull-down menu option– This process is described in the System Controllers

presentation

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Access Messages

• Allows you to define how Doors should handle each possible event message a controller can generate

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Message Text

• The message text strings are the messages displayed on screen and in reports for each event – they can be edited– Caution! Changing a message string may obscure the true

meaning of an event message– Click in a message text field and enter the new message

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Save to File

• Allows you to designate which events should be saved in the event file– Reduce event file size by removing unnecessary events– Click the button to save an event – Click it to not save an event

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Print in View

• Allows you to define which events will be displayed in Monitor windows 1, 2, or 3– Click the button to display a message – Click the button to not display that message

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Sound Alert

• Allows events to generate an audible tone on the host computer when that event occurs– Click the button to generate a sound alert– Click the button to not generate a sound alert

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Acknowledge a Sound Alert

• Click the button on the tool bar to acknowledge a sound alert

• Do not enable the “Operator Acknowledged Sound Alert” message or you will create an endless loop of alert > acknowledged alert events

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Controller Reports Event

• Allows you to designate which events the controller should report– It may not be necessary to report certain events, saving

controller memory space

• Click the button to report that event• Click the button to not report that event

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Event File Maintenance

• Allows you to archive event file data in year, month, or week increments– The archive time value is set in the Monitoring Options

window

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Select Archive to Perform

• Click on the row with the type of archive to perform and the row is highlighted

• Click the button

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Select Archive Folder

• Click in the Select the folder field and enter the path to the folder, or click the button and browse to the archive folder

• Option to enter a description of the archive in the Comment field

• Then click the button

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Saved Archive

• The archive is now saved

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Restoring an Archive

• Select the archive and click the button

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Browse to Archive Folder

• Browse to the folder in which the archive is stored• Once the folder is found, click the button

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Archive Restored

• The archive is restored to Doors

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Operate Monitors

• Click on the Operate > Start Monitor pull-down menu option

• The monitor window appears

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Operate Monitor Window

• Begins real-time monitoring• Opens up to three monitor windows• Collects event data from the controllers

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Collect Controller Events

• Click the button to immediately download all events from all controllers

• Event collection status is displayed as each controller is polled

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Opening a Monitor Window

• Click one of the three window icons to open that window

• Click the button to begin real-time monitoring

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Monitor Window

• Events that meet the monitor’s configuration are displayed as they happen

• Use the scroll bar to scan through the events

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Monitor Communication Status

• Displays the following information– Number of events collected– Connection type– Communication port– Online/offline status

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Stop Monitoring

• Click the button to stop real-time monitoring

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Close Monitor Window

• Click the box to close the monitor window