Packard Bell EN TM80: Administration Menu Options

Complete this form as follows:

Element Description

Search

Display or change an existing record.

Add

Configure a new alarm routing and/or bumping record. Default values display for

you.

Delete

Delete a selected record from the list in the windowpane on the right that is no

longer required or applicable.

Description

Enter a unique or suggestive description for this record. The field accepts 1 to 64

characters.

Facility

Assign a facility option from the drop-down list of available facilities for

assignment by this operator. If you do not select a facility, Ignore Facilities will be

assigned for you.

API Connections Form

Reference Topics:

Definition Tab

About Secure Perfect

This option is purchased individually and licensed with your Secure Perfect system. For complete

details, contact your GE Security Sales Representative.

The number of API records that you can configure is limited to the number of API connections for which

you are licensed. This form allows you to define an interface license for external application integration,

by assigning a description of the API (Application Program Interface) service that has been configured to

communicate with Secure Perfect.

Once configured, real-time event processing and remote command and control functionality extended by

way of the API includes the following:

• Bi-directional alarm event processing for monitoring and acknowledgement

• Receiving Secure Perfect access control badge events

• Receiving digital input events

• Receiving intrusion zone events

• Control of alarm point monitoring On/Off

• Control of digital input points Enable/Disable

• Control of digital output points Open/Close

• Control of intrusion zones Arm/Disarm.

An API can be installed on any computer in your Secure Perfect system; however, do not attempt to

install on a domain controller. The installation will not complete properly. Review the system configuration

with your IT Department for alternative reconfiguration options.

Description: Enter the title of the external API. This should be a unique identifier to the product.

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Badge Format Form

Reference Topic:

Badge Format Tab

Administration Menu

If you experience difficulty with this form, contact GE Customer Support for assistance.

This form allows an operator to do the following:

• Import or export custom badge records in a Wiegand or magnetic stripe format, into the micros on

your Secure Perfect system.

• Identify the pattern of data bits (mask) of the badge numbers that you will importing or export to your

Secure Perfect system.

• Store standard custom badge format in the Secure Perfect database.

• Interpret data from badges presented at a Wiegand or magnetic stripe reader.

Element Description

Search

Display or change an existing record.

Add

Configure a new Badge Format record. Default values display for you.

Delete

Delete a selected Badge Format record from the list in the windowpane on the

right, that is no longer required or applicable.

Description

Enter a unique or suggestive description for this badge format. The field accepts 1

to 64 characters.

Example: 33 Bit Indala

Facility

Assign a facility option from the drop-down list of available facilities for

assignment by this operator. If you do not select a facility, Ignore Facilities will be

assigned for you.

Badge Format Tab

Configure the specific mask of this custom badge format. You cannot save this

record until you have completed the entries on this tab.

Camera Preset Form

Reference Topic:

Definition Tab

After setup and programming of your DVR devices to meet your monitoring requirements, you will need

to parallel the settings and positions in the Secure Perfect configurations. This form allows you to edit or

enter a description and number for a camera preset. Presets must be defined before you can assign

them to a camera on the Presets tab of the Camera Form.

This option is available for PTZ cameras only.

Description

In this field, enter or edit the description for the selected preset. This should be a unique name describing

or numbering a preset camera position.

Facility

A facility option can be assigned from the drop-down list of available facilities for assignment by this

operator.

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CCTV Alarm Form

Reference Topic:

CCTV Tab

This form is used for serial interfaces that are interfaced to Secure Perfect. Following installation of

hardware and the CCTV interface software, you must create CCTV alarm records. This form is used to

set up CCTV alarms.

To locate and view existing records, click Search. When a list of records displays, you can edit an

existing record OR click Add to add a new record.

Description: Enter a description of this CCTV interface.

Facility: A facility option can be designated for the CCTV Alarm record from the Facility drop-down list.

Client Form

Reference Topics:

Client Tab

Backup Clients Tab

Networking

Client Redundancy Overview

Use this form to add a client to the Secure Perfect network or assign backup clients.

Only systems licensed for Client Redundancy will have the ability to select backup clients.

Element Description

Search

Click to display and view or edit an existing client record.

Add

Click to add a new record. Note that default values display where appropriate.

Delete

Select a Client Name from the right windowpane and click to delete the client record .

Description*

Enter or edit a unique description for the client you are adding. If you do not enter a

description, this field automatically populates with the PC Name selected on the

Client tab.

Global Edition Client Descriptions: We recommend that your client description

include a meaningful name of the Global or Regional Database Server computer.

When the description displays on the Client Monitor Form, the Global and Regional

Server will be easily identifiable.

Example Description: bcttestpc(client to bcteeserver)

where bcttestpc is the name of the client computer and bcteeserver is the

name of the Regional Database Server for this client.

Facility

A facility option can be designated for your new client record from the Facility drop-

down list.

You must restart the Secure Perfect client program for changes to the Auto logoff selection to take

effect.

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Client Group Form

Reference Topic:

Client Group Tab

Alarm Bumping and Routing Form

This form allows you to assign Secure Perfect client computers into logical groups. Members of a Client

Group cannot have conflicting Mode Schedules. A comment box is available for entry to describe the

reason for this group or configuration.

Client groups can be assigned to specific alarm routing and bumping configurations. You may want to

review the Sample Scenario in the Alarm Routing and Bumping Form Help topic.

Element Description

Search

Display or change an existing record.

Add

Configure a new record. Default values display for you.

Delete

Delete a selected record that is no longer required or applicable, from the list in the

windowpane on the right.

Descriptions

Enter a unique description that identifies this Client Group.

Facility

Assign a facility option from the drop-down list of available facilities for assignment

by this operator. If you do not select a facility, Ignore Facilities will be assigned for

you.

Save

You cannot save this record until at least one client is assigned to this group on the

Client Group tab.

Diagnostic Setting Form

Reference Topic:

Settings Tab

Use this form to select items to monitor using the DiagView program.

Use this form with care. The more items you turn on for monitoring, the more your system

performance is affected. This is even more important when monitoring port, communications, or micro

items.

Click Search to display a list of components that you can monitor.

Description: Select a component from the list box in the right windowpane. The selected component

displays in the Description field as a read-only entry.

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Event Schedule Form

Reference Topic:

Event Schedules Tab

An event schedules when an action occurs, such as resetting an anti-passback status, dialing a micro, or

changing a physical reader type. There is no end time associated with an event. Events are comprised of

one or more times on one or more days of the week and modes. Events differ from time schedules in that

events define when an action occurs and time schedules define an interval of time over which an action

occurs. Note that an event can schedule an action multiple times, even within the same day. Once an

event is defined, it may be applied anywhere events are used.

Deleting an event schedule does not affect the current state of any devices currently under the effect

of the deleted event schedule. An event will remain active until another event occurs to change it.

This form is used to create event schedules. Events define the day(s) of the week and time(s) an action

will start. Click Search to display a list of previously created event schedules or Add to add a new event.

Description

Enter a meaningful and unique 32-digit or less alphanumeric description for this event.

Event Tagging Overview

Reference Topic:

Event Trigger Form Completion

When a digital video camera is activated and associated with a reader event or alarm event, the

recording for that activity is tagged. During this tagging process, the camera remains actively recording

and then archives the recording to disk.

Once recorded, the recording can be retrieved by a search option based on the event tag. If the Event

Trigger that activated the tagging was defined as Tag as event instead of Tag only, the DVR would have

changed recording rate to a special event-recording rate for a period of time, as predefined during the

DVR setup and configuration.

When tagged events are identified by a search, retrieved, and viewed, the video playback begins at the

start of the event and continues playing until you elect to discontinue the playback.

Event triggers must be created on the Event Trigger Form, to define the logical rules that will initiate

event-driven video response.

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Event Trigger Form Completion

Reference Topics:

Preset/Camera Tab

Readers Tab

Alarms Tab

Intrusion Zone Tab

The Event Trigger Form opens with the Preset/Camera tab displayed. An event consists of a camera and

either readers, alarms, or zone activity. A trigger causes an event or program routine to be executed,

depending on what options you set on the tabs of this form. Intrusion Zone activities can also trigger an

event.

Example: A camera begins recording in response to an invalid badge transaction. An alarm is recorded

in response to the badge transaction.

Element Description

Search

Click to display or change an existing record.

Add

Click to add a new record.

Delete

Select and then click to remove an Event Trigger record.

Description

Enter text up to 64 alphanumeric characters in length. The description should convey

specific information relating to a physical location, camera, reader, or state, such as.

Front Door Inv Badge Camera 1 Reader 1

You can assign a reader alarm or camera alarm or both and this can be reflected in

the description of the Trigger.

Save

Following the completion of applicable options for this record, click to save this

record. The selection results display in the columns of the form window on the right.

Facility Form

Reference Topic:

Facility Tab

Use this form to define facilities. Your database can be partitioned and related records can be grouped.

These groupings are called facilities. If facilities will be used, you must create Facility definitions in the

Secure Perfect system.

A facility option can be designated on MOST forms throughout the system and any number of

facilities can be defined.

Usually, the system administrator is assigned to all facilities. Operators can be assigned to one or more

facilities and can choose which facilities to be active at any given time. All records have the default Ignore

Facilities, which means the records are not under facility protection; therefore, those records are visible to

all operators.

For a shortcut menu to related forms, move the mouse pointer below the tab and click the right

mouse button.

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Floor Form

Reference Topic:

Floor Tab

Use this form to associate a description to a floor number.

Click Add to add a new record OR Search and view or change an existing record.

Facility: A facility can be designated for the new Floor record from the Facility drop-down list.

For a shortcut menu to related forms, move the mouse pointer below the tab and click the right

mouse button.

Guard Tour Form

Reference Topics:

Guard Tour Tab

Activity Monitor

Guard Tour Tab - Manual Control Form

Administration Menu

This form is unavailable if you are not licensed for Guard Tour.

A Guard Tour is an inspection of your facility premises, made by a security officer at random intervals.

The officer stops at pre-determined tour points along the way, where a badge must be presented to a

reader or hit a DI point, so that the Secure Perfect system can track the tour progress. Each time the

officer presents a badge to a reader, a tour point is ‘hit.’ The following statements are true of Guard Tour

features:

• Tour Point Form must be configured before a Guard Tour record is configured.

• A Guard Tour must be configured before a physical tour can begin.

• All tour points must be associated with micros within the same Region.

• Tour points can be both readers and DIs.

• The same badge must complete the entire tour. A badge can only be assigned to one tour at

a time.

• The badge read does not grant access or cause an invalid alarm.

• Double-hit points by the tour badge along the tour result in invalid tour transactions.

• A tour begins when the Start Point is ‘hit’ or manually started by the operator at a Secure

Perfect computer.

• A tour ends when all points assigned to the tour are ‘hit,’ or at the expiration of the time

assigned for the duration of the tour. Also, a tour can be ended manually, by the operator at a

Secure Perfect computer.

• An alarm is generated if a tour is not completed within the assigned maximum tour time.

• Badge transactions are stored in badge history and available to generate reports.

• DI tour points are assigned to only one tour.

• Badges must be assigned to a tour in order to be a tour badge.

Requirements are indicated by an asterisk.

Element Description

Search

Display or change an existing record.

Add

Configure a new Guard Tour record. Default values display for you.

Delete

Delete a selected Guard Tour record from the list in the windowpane on the right,

that is no longer required or applicable. The associated alarm record for this Guard

Tour is simultaneously deleted.

If a tour is in progress, this record cannot be deleted or edited. Refer to the Activity

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Monitor or the Guard Tour tab of the Manual Control form for tour status.

Description*

Enter a unique or suggestive description for this tour. The field accepts 1 to 64

characters.

Facility

Assign a facility option from the drop-down list of available facilities for assignment

by this operator. If you do not select a facility, Ignore Facilities will be assigned for

you.

Guard Tour Tab*

Configure the specifics of this tour. You cannot save this record until you have

completed the Tour tab.

For a shortcut menu to related forms, move the mouse pointer below any tab and click the right

mouse button.

Intrusion Zone Form Completion

Reference Topics:

Intrusion Zone Tab

Status Tab

Overview - Intrusion Zones

Administration Menu

This option opens the Intrusion Zone Form that allows you to create or edit an Intrusion Zone record, then

assign related devices, based on the current operators’ facilities and permissions. If you are modifying an

existing zone configuration, it is recommended that you verify the state of the zone by obtaining a current

status.

For a shortcut menu to related forms, move the mouse pointer below any of the tabs and click the

right mouse button.

Description

Enter a unique description for the Intrusion Zone in this field.

In the process of saving a modified configuration, a dialog box will display: Please note, if zone is

currently armed, this update will disarm and rearm with your new configuration. Do you want to

continue? If you select Yes, the new configuration will save to the database. If you select No, your

changes will not be saved.

Facility

A facility option can be assigned for this intrusion zone record from the drop-down list of available

facilities for this operator.

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LogFile Form

Reference Topics:

LogFile Tab

Diagnostics Overview

The LogFile Form allows you to select a computer in your Secure Perfect network, set up a new logfile

(establish an identity for the file), and designate a path and directory in which to place your LogFile. All

log files should be saved in the Secure Perfect/Logs folder; it will be easier to locate for backups

and upgrades. It is a shared folder, which means other clients can gain access to the log files.

Each client computer will have a set of diagnostic objects that represent what can be monitored on that

machine. Diagnostic objects can be controlled remotely (turned on or off). All diagnostic objects can write

messages to a common default logfile or any diagnostic object can write to a separate log file created

and defined by the user.

Before any logfile can be deleted from Secure Perfect, you must re-assign diagnostic objects to another

logfile.

Mode Schedule Form

Reference Topic:

Mode Schedule Tab

Mode schedules define the date and time a mode goes into effect. The purpose of a mode is to allow the

micros to operate differently than predefined for Normal mode (Monday through Sunday, which is the

default mode of the Secure Perfect system). Operating modes are an administrative decision, as each

facility has unique requirements. For each mode, Secure Perfect micros will control its devices such as

readers and doors in a predefined way.

You may have a schedule configured, but never see a schedule change if you do not have the

schedule associated with an Alarm Routing and Bumping configuration.

Description: Click Search to edit an existing mode schedule or click New to add a new mode schedule.

• The Host PC and micros may be in different modes at the same time.

• Modes are not partitioned by facilities. If you need to use facilities in your system, create a mode

schedule for each facility. Use the facility description as a prefix on the Mode Schedule Form, in the

Description to indicate to which facility this mode will apply. For example: BocaHQ 8 to 5 would

indicate a facility-specific mode, where BocaHQ refers to a geographic location.

• There are four possible modes. Normal is day-of-the-week dependent and it is the default mode for

the Secure Perfect system. The remaining three are not day-of-the-week dependent. Both schedules

and events can be defined in terms of modes. Sunday through Saturday configurations are only in

effect in Normal mode. Then, you could define Mode 1 as Half-Day Holiday, and Mode 2 as

Full-Day Holiday. Mode 3 might be Return to Normal.

Like events, there is no end time associated with a mode. The mode will remain active until changed

by another mode schedule.

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Operator Form

Reference Topics:

Operator Tab

Facilities Tab

An operator is an individual who can access and control the Secure Perfect software.

To locate and view existing operator records, click Search. A list of operator records will display. You can

either click Add to add new operators OR search and view or change the existing list of operators on the

Secure Perfect system.

Once a facility is assigned to an operator, it will appear in the Facility field after a successful login by that

operator. Operators are associated with permissions that define the actions operators can perform within

SP. Use this form to configure operator records.

Facility

A facility can be assigned from the drop-down list of available facilities for assignment by this operator.

For a shortcut menu to related forms, move the mouse pointer below the tab and click the right

mouse button.

Override Form

Reference Topic:

Override Tab

Use this form to manually enter an In or Out status for badge transactions that you want to enter into the

history. This information can be used by those who create reports to track, view, and verify employee

transactions, pair In and Out transactions, or review total transactions.

Parameters Form

Reference Topics:

Settings Tab

User Fields Tab

Mode Labels Tab

Address Fields Tab

Communication Settings Tab

Clear Archive Tab

Password Tab

Complete the tabs of the Parameter Form to assign global settings used throughout the Secure Perfect

system. You will want to configure the global system parameters before you begin loading your database

by creating records and assigning permissions.

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