Setting up a Site

Sites: A site is the foundation of the access control system, whether one device or many, one location or many all devices must be added to a site. The site must contain at least one converter or converter/ controller: the controller allows access to all doors gates, entries and devices belonging to the site.

Example:

This site called Home has two controllers 50361 GATE CONTROLLER and 41150 FRONT DOOR, we can see the controller types in Device Manager, these controllers are both Converter Controllers.

Adding a New Site:

Select sites from the Management drop down tab.

Click on to add a new site or Site Search to add a new sub site to an existing site.

Add the site name in the Details tab followed by enter your site name and any comments regarding the site along with the site colour.

The site colour will appear as a rondel next to the users image in the Staff/User list as well as in the STAFF/USER SITE which indicates the last site used by the user.

In this example John Smith’s last known location was Home as indicated by the red rondel and the Red Home location USER/Site location text on the User/Staff listing.

NB: Site Rate is a Time and Attendance function discussed in the Time and Attendance section of the manual.

Master Site and Slave sites: When creating sites it is important to understand the relationship between Master and Slave sites, the master site groups shares its time zones and access levels with any “slave” controllers for the site. For example if a company has 4 common entries, carpark entry and exit, a front door and back door as well as sub entries, groups or department like Engineering and Manufacturing, the Master controllers will be, front door and back door as well as carpark entry and exit; when you create other groups within the site they are allocated the Master site and then their specific area or slave site.

Slave site or Department:

When creating slave site or department select Add New Site and then select Master Site in the drop down menu, the new site or department will also have access to access of the Master site in this example the Engineering department will have authorized access to Front Door, Back Door, Garage Entry and Exit from the master site.

Press Next to Save and continue.

Select the controller you want the allocate to the site in this example a Z5R-Net 2227.

Click Next when you have finished adding controllers.

Site Timezones:

Site Timezones determine when a controller may be activated by Staff/Users at a door or device. There are several Timezone with the controllers data base which can be allocated to different groups. Whilst all users may have their own custom timezone or schedule it is best to standardised for bulk allocation of access.

When you have finished allocating days and timezone to the controller press save to continue.

GROUPS

A group is a collection of people who share the same or similar access levels, in the example we have used above we have specific Slave Controllers for Engineering and Manufacturing whilst they sharing common (the master site) entries as well as General Staff and Managers.

Adding a new Group:

Select Groups from the Management dropdown menu, the select Add a Group. .

Name the group and add any comments about the group (in this example I have added a note that this Group is intended just for contractors), and then press Next.