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1. USBReaderFormat 110 Save only 10 LSB digits USBReaderFormat 111 Save only 11 LSB digits USBReaderFormat 112 Save only 12 LSB digits Example For a card that its actual 10 digits code is 1234567890 with USBReaderFormat 0 the Get From Card screen will show the code 12345678 with USBReaderFormat 108 it will be 34567890 with USBReaderFormat 109 it will be 234567890 These readers require the ini option UseUSBReader 1 8 Displaying the Picture of the Escort New View Escort button of the Display Photo toolbar allows to display the photo of the escort also in the case where the escort function is set Note that the photo of the escort is slightly smaller than the photo of the main cardholder H pis lay photo play p el Always on top QJ Prev 1 1 CO Next Clear all records BO open employee scree Vie Details value Last name Lewis First name John Number Company Department Access group rdri Badge 00861829 Car registration No ID Street Apartment City District Post code 39 26 10 11 37 Access Granted Lewis John Smith Susan From reader RdrO1 Left Controller Details Yalue Last name Smith First name Susan Number 12 Company Department dds Access group rdri Anytime Anywhere doc version 1 14 Page 7 9 New DVRs Added 9 1 DVTEL The DVTEL Network Video Management System software Latitude version 6 0 0 56 has been integrated with Amadeus 5 which su2. and new field sendPriority in the Controller table in the database have been introduced to set up a priority order in the controllers download For each controller the new field should be set with a priority number 0 9999 The higher is the number the greater is the priority Note that special priority number 9999 is reserved for adding a second queue of download In this case the commands are sent alternatively to controllers having 9999 as priority number and to the other controllers from the regular queue For advanced users two other INI options have been added sendMaxCrdHcommandsPriorityAtOnce 1 to send more than one command in 9999 queue at each timer up to 3 default is 1 sendMaxCrdHcommandsRegularAtOnce 1 to send more than one command in regular queue at each timer up to 3 default is 1 As this feature needs a database modification please contact us for details e Improved Access group Download New INI option UseAGoptimization enables to prevent download to controllers any changes on Access Group if no cardholder belongs to this Access Group e Improved Pending command Download When huge quantity of pending commands should be sent the application can run slowly To avoid such behavior the number of sent commands has been reduced to 80 per batch In addition the default value of the INI option Resend Pendings has been changed to 5 so that every 5min no more than 80 commands are s
3. 2 000 badges is not sufficient if using former versions Now the limit is based on cardholders who have a badge only and a dongle of 2 000 badges is sufficient in this situation even if old cardholders visitors are not deleted 13 4 The key after the PIN code can now be controlled by Amadeus 5 When using Keypad reader and accessing via PIN code it was necessary to press the key after PIN code A new option PIN without Hash has been added in the Reader gt Miscellaneous screen allowing to avoid the need to press the Hash Key after entering the PIN code relevant when the reader 1s defined to check the PIN code This option is supported on controller firmware versions 18 10 10 and later Miscellaneous Badge format Rdr02 TPL Unsuccessful attempts Badge format 99 Default transaction code Reader Alarm Zone F2 0 Entrance Exit Delay F3 Format o Sec Min C Door alarm buzzer Card code length Leave door relay open during all Door open time Misc o eE Ane Fi 3 4 5 6 PIN without Hash Door control Access mode a a a ee doc version 1 14 Page 15 13 5 Changes in the automatic cleaning of the event log In version 1 8 016 we introduced INI options to automatically clean up a part of the log text because we found that on large systems when the real time log contains many events the application may start to react very slow But we just found that despite this
4. event In order to be sure that the OPC client receives every event new INI entry OPCConfirmEventReception 1 allows Amadeus 5 server to wait for OPC client confirmation Then only when the OPC client has confirmed the event reception by setting the new tag DDS_EVENTS_RECEIVED to 1 Amadeus 5 can send the next event and immediately reset the tag value to 0 Events that are waiting to be sent to OPC client are stored in the new OPCEvents xml file 15 Communication 15 1 Support for communication with controllers over Internet Many PCs Routers do not respond to PING commands and prevent communication between controllers and Amadeus 5 over networks managed by such Routers A new ini entry woPing 1 allows to avoid the PING commands use and then enables Amadeus 5 to communicate with controllers over Internet 15 2 Controller communication has been optimized e Improved handling of Controller Buffers A new way to preserve the controller buffers has been implemented against loss of data due to a server crash or due to a restart operation during event uploading The principle consists in placing within files all events waiting to be processed by Amadeus 5 To enable this function two new ini file entries are provided isPollingToFile 1 for writing all new records into a buffer file into the folder polEvt doSavePollingFiles 1 for saving the files after treatment into the folder polEvt Don
5. keep the old allocated cards as free cards By setting the new INI entry KeepUnallocatedBadgeAfterImport 1 the cards replaced by the Import function are still stored in the database as Unallocated Badge 6 New Specific Log Entries for Transactions with Stolen Lost and Cancelled Badges For high security sites in order to identify immediately stolen cancelled or lost badges in the log screen the log event transaction for such a card is more detailed and the text color of such a transaction is customizable via the 3 following new INI entries Color_DeniedCancel x 2 by default Color_DeniedLost y 2 by default Color_DeniedStolen z 2 by default where x y z are the desired color value 11 09 11 15 03 54 Access Granted Parson Steve From reader Entrance Transaction code 11 11 09 11 15 03 54 Access Granted Lewis John From reader Entrance Transaction code 10 11 09 11 15 03 58 Access Denied Smith Susan From reader Lift lt Reader not defined gt 3 Stolen 11 09 11 15 04 12 Access Granted Tyson Carl From reader Entrance Transaction code 10 11 09 11 15 04 12 Access Granted Black Jamie From reader Entrance Transaction code 11 11 09 11 15 04 12 Access Granted GreenLyn From reader Entrance Transaction code 10 11 09 11 15 04 25 Access Denied Brown Peter From reader Lift lt Reader not defined gt 3 Cancelled 11 09 1
6. the log can increase indefinitely if these options are configured incorrectly For example suppose that at each 1000 events LogCleanFrequency Amadeus 5 checks if the log has more than 4000 lines LogMaxLines and if yes it removes 500 lines LogEraseLines So After 5 000 events log will have 4 500 lines as we removed 500 After 6 000 events log will have 5 000 lines as we removed 500 from 5 500 After 7 000 events log will have 5 500 lines as we removed 500 from 6 000 After 30 000 events log will have 17 000 lines To simplify the LogEraseLines for Rich log and LogEraseCharacters for Simple log options have been removed for using only LogMaxLines and LogMaxCharacters options Then if the LogMaxLines or LogMaxCharacters is reached all the lines are deleted from the log except the last LogMaxLines or LogMaxCharacters In the above example once the log reaches the 4000 lines limit LogMaxLines it stays at this number of lines Note these options are set by default to always keep the latest 1000 events approx LogCleanFrequency 100 LogMaxCharacters 100000 LogMaxLines 1000 13 6 Redundant Server supports Centralized Spread Centralized spread is a way that allows multiple PCs to connect to a single Spread instance deamon by using a single executable spread exe thus avoiding communication difficulties between Amadeus 5 server and its workstations due to firewalls anti virus or when the remote compute
7. 1 15 04 12 Access Granted Jones Sue From reader Entrance Transaction code 11 11 09 11 15 04 12 Access Granted Lee Robert From reader Entrance Transaction code 10 11 09 11 15 04 16 Access Denied Robinson Willy From reader Lift lt Reader not defined gt 3 Lost Available color values 0 Light Pinks 1 Black 2 Red 3 Blue 4 Bordeaux 5 Green 6 Orange 7 Pink 8 Purple 9 Light Gray 10 Light Blue In addition these new denied reasons may be used in global reflexes as triggers for example when a stolen card is presented at one reader a popup message can alert the guard Moreover these denied reasons can be filtered in Door pass reports doc version 1 14 Page 6 7 New Formats for USB Readers Since Amadeus 5 v1 8 022 the Badge gt Get From Card screen supports receiving card code from Paxton USB reader connected to the Amadeus 5 PC The card format is according to the following value of the USBReaderFormat entry in the INI USBReaderFormat 0 Hex USBReaderFormat 1 16 bit Decimal USBReaderFormat 3 24 bit decimal In addition this new Amadeus 5 version supports for more USB readers In fact any USB reader that transmits the code as is The USBReaderFormat entry serves to position the card code as described below USBReaderFormat 0 Save the 8 MSB digits USBReaderFormat 108 Save only 8 LSB digits USBReaderFormat 109 Save only 9 LSB digits
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10. Bruce ompany ction Movies Pt Pty Lastname Willis OfficeID 2222 ype Employee rr iM Action Movies Futures Inc x m Allocate Biometrics data Badge 00861 4FF Location Department Temporary Worker h VOT Global Office phone Site Sit Access Access group lt Multiple gt i PIN code From date O Tara To date oO 5 4 ama Validated I lawl C Keep the cards if motorized reader C No APB No timed Anti Pass Back C No access during holidays Reset APB level when download O Supervisor C Need escort This example shows the fieldname Number changed to OfficeID additional values for the Type field Company shown as a combo box and Cardholder Privileges from the Personal tab shown as a scrollable box in the main Cardholder screen 5 2 Each Department can have its own default Access Group s Upon creating a new cardholder Amadeus 5 allocates automatically the Access Group s according to the selected Department This can be possible by setting the new ini entry DepartmentA G 1 set by default which adds new fields to the Department screen These fields allow to define the default Access Groups of each Department doc version 1 14 Page 4 i Department BHx 0060 u A a New Save Delete First Pre Next Last Downld Search Print Select a department General Security ame i
11. Events px countrps 2009 1px a Aaaa Jya ii rpa Last LastfayGrant LastiourGrant Netist Reportirps repa LIEK i Pa 16 3 New DDS tool for converting database from MDB to SQL New tool has been developed for migrating Amadeus 5 databases from MS Access to MS SQL Please contact us for details 16 4 Automatic tool for deleting old visitors In some sites visitors data are not deleted in Amadeus 5 systematically when visitors left the site even 1f visitors left the site many months ago Then after some time the size of the main database has grown significantly Or in some countries legislation requires that personal data of people must be deleted after a certain period of time Therefore cleaning the database may be required Suppose we want to remove from the database all visitors whose last visit was more than 3 months New external tool EV Cleaner enables to permanently delete from the Amadeus 5 database invalidated cardholders or just visitors that have left the site after a certain period of time This application detects automatically the database location and includes ini file to define from when the cardholders must be deleted configurable in months This tool may be run automatically by Amadeus 5 global reflexes or by Windows scheduler In addition it may overwrite every day the event log journal for always having a three months log of events Please contact us for details 17 New Help amp New Am
12. Internet the authenticity of ID cards driving licences and passports against the most up to date information from around the world The KEESING database gives access to over 20 000 images of over 2300 issued documents from 198 countries Once subscripted to KEESING it is possible to automatically import data from the Identity Document pictures to the Amadeus 5 cardholder information fields e g First name Last name ID number Photo Valid to etc DOCUMENTSCAN INTAKE Mozilla Firefox en https www krefstage nl documentscan dll getdoc DocName doccontrolewizard_fs html amp Username Sensor Daniel amp CookielD 1746425016 amp mmea Document verification The Document verification chapter will safely guide you through the process of verifying the bearer s identity document With the help of reference materials such as images and descriptions this section of the intake guides you through the verification of the identity document Displayed on the right hand side are the identity documents of France Click on the image that matches the bearer s identity document Ifthe document you require is not listed please click document not listed Previous When the ID is tabled on a dedicated passport ID scanner near the workstation clicking on the new ID Check button at the top right of the Amadeus 5 Cardholder screen opens the ID Check screen that allows to start the online enrollment
13. Then set the new INI entry ViewerPath to specify the viewer location path in the hard disk Example ViewerPath C Program Files Nice ALPHA Observer exe 9 3 Dedicated Micros In order to support the latest line of Dedicated Micros products like DV IP express and all DM range of products until January 2011 we have integrated the last NetVU DLL version 1 7 1 of Dedicated Micros in the Amadeus 5 DM exe viewer You can test it with the IP address 212 140 243 141 user user password password Note that this integration requires Java not distributed with the setup Java setup is available at http www java com en download manual jsp 9 4 HIK Vision Amadeus 5 supports now the NVR server software of HIK Vision with the IVMS4000 client software and is compatible with the following HIK Vision products 1 Embedded encoder doc version 1 14 Page 9 Embedded DVR Embedded Hybrid DVR Embedded NVR IP cameras IP PTZ cameras IVMS2000 software DURUN 9 5 Viewer Path option A new INI entry ViewerPath has been added to specify the network path of the DVR viewer allowing the possibility to install the viewer in a different folder than the application folder Example ViewerPath C Program Files A vigilon A vigilon Viewer exe 9 6 Generic DVR A new DVR type called Generic has been added in the DVR type list in order to let the possibility to integrate any type of DVR Indeed by following our spe
14. adeus 5 User Manual The Amadeus 5 on line help opened directly from any Amadeus 5 screen by the F1 key has been updated in English As before this help is screen sensitive meaning when the F1 is typed from any Amadeus 5 screen the relevant Help page will be shown doc version 1 14 Page 21 E AM5Help m op G Hide Back Forward Print Contents Search J 1 Application Overview kdl 1 1 Using the System Documentation 1 2 Documentation Links 2 1 3 Copyright and Trademarks 1 4 Application Basic Functions 1 5 Optional Modules 1 6 Basic Concepts 1 7 The Big Picture 2 Quick Guide 3 Parameter Tab 4 Event Handling Tab 5 Modules Tab 6 Communication Tab 7 View Tab 8 Manual Action Tab 9 Tools Tab 10 Help Tab 11 Multi Company Multi Site Operation 12 Time and Attendance Variations 13 Scenarios and Examples 14 Technical Information 15 System ini File 16 Recommended Technical Documents Keak 1 1 USING THE SYSTEM DOCUMENTATION The system documentation is supplied with the application as a Microsoft HTML Help file designed to function as both the User Guide and as Online Help It is designed to be used on fine all topics are linked so that the reader can start with the high level description of a feature jump directly to see details of the screen or screens used for that function and from there go to examples specifications and technical details While the application is running it is linked directly to t
15. all people belonging to the same department press the Search button select the Department and press Search again new button Multiple Access Group Wizard Change is displayed at the top right corner of the screen This button allows to add change remove the multiple access groups of the selected people of the search results via the Multiple Si Access Group Wizard The advantage of this feature from the Tools gt Multiple Access Group Wizard is that there is no need that people to be modified have a common Access Group Note that the changes can be performed for cardholders having multiple access groups only BRE Show deleted 5 4 Card enrolment may be restricted to an enrolment reader The new added list of Get from card screen allows filtering cards enrolment on a single enrolment reader doc version 1 14 Page 5 Get from card Receive card codes from Radro2 7 TPL Card Code Reader Cancel Note that at the opening of the screen Amadeus 5 remembers the last selection 5 5 Option for keeping badges replaced by an Import as free badges When someone has to change his card for any reason it may be useful to keep his old card in the system as free card In the previous versions when updating existing cardholders with new card via the Import function the replaced cards were automatically removed from the database Now it is possible to choose if wanting to
16. cifications anyone is able to develop external viewer for any DVR brand The viewer should have the filename Viewer exe and should be placed in the application folder Then by choosing a DVR from Generic type Amadeus 5 will use the file Viewer exe as viewer Note that if the value of ViewerPath 1s not empty then Amadeus 5 will use the given value Example ViewerPath C Program Files x86 My Viewer Viewer1 exe 10 Alarm Enhancements AlarmMsg exe version 1 0 05 is a small external utility to be used with Amadeus 5 It was developed mainly for hospital projects where nurses use panic buttons and it is needed to prompt a big clear message on the guard security screen showing who was attacked with photo and where Shelley was attacked near the Kitchen Door at 11 04 11 11 10 59 Amadeus 5 runs this exe file by using the Action Type Execute External Application with the command AlarmMsg exe cid cid rid rid For this new feature Amadeus 5 supports the following dynamic texts iid for input id cid for cardholder id doc version 1 14 Page 10 rid for reader id AlarmMsg exe runs with an INI file named AlarmMsg ini allowing customization The files AlarmMsg exe AlarmMsg ini must all be located on the Amadeus 5 folder For more details consult the document 10TE513 Alarm Message pdf 11 Reports 11 1 Statistics New reports have been added for statistical purposes The
17. d Cardholder Names Amadeus 5 server and workstations must be restarted In the INI file the option NsITdtAddToAscii allows to control ASCH code In addition specific commands for coupon definition can be configured by commands in Script tab in controller screen Please contact us for defining these commands This feature is supported only for SQL database 4 Sending SMS Upon Event Since www smsmail com allows to send SMS by email Amadeus 5 can use its action for sending an email to send SMS also after registration to this website For example if you want to receive an SMS when an alarm occurs create a Send Email action with a short message and specify in the field To the phone number that should receive the SMS and add smsmail com e g 33612345678 smsmail com Then create the associated process and the global reflex that will trigger this process upon alarm event Note that this feature requires to fill the Email parameters in the Options screen 5 Cardholder Management Enhancement 5 1 Cardholder screen is now customizable e Field captions additional cardholder types and mandatory fields These changes are effective after editing the file CardholderCustom1 xmI located in the Application directory and changing its filename to CardholderCustom xml Note instructions are included in this file e Bringing fields from other tabs in the General tab Some fields of lower level tabs can be shown at the bo
18. datePlug utility located on the application folder Running the UpdatePlug exe file selecting Software Dongle and clicking on Get Unique PC ID would give the following Get ID and Code Wike Encoded Code M NetHas W Software dongle teeter Aet Uni Oo Copy to clipboard acobeecddbsbbs5d2b1 Os sd40s3ebb 05 20adstbhs2591 64 60bez0e5baazz0f doc version 1 14 Page 2 The Unique PC ID should be copied and sent to us by email Once we get it we send the 2 license files based on the ordered configuration These files are Data plg and Signature plg Once received they must be copied into the server application folder It is required to set Software Dongle 1 in INI file Note Physical USB dongles are still supported and can still be ordered 3 NSL TDT Support Amadeus 5 now supports NSL TDT Ticket Dispenser Terminal controller belongs to the NSL family which in addition to its standard security features 1s able to print programmable tickets on a serial printer for ticket printing applications e g cafeteria meal tickets For sending the cardholder names to the NSL TDT a new option has been added in the controller screen Send Cardholder Names This option available when selecting the controller type OPEN NSL4 allows to store in the controller memory the concatenation of the 11th first characters of the last name and first name with a space between them Note that after a controller is set to Sen
19. e in separate folders per day and per hour if 0 the files are deleted after treatment doc version 1 14 Page 18 e Improved Controller Initialization A new optimization has been added to reduce by half the download time to the controllers during complete initialization It consists of reducing the length of messages sent to controllers for people who own the same settings such as access group PIN code crisis level APB etc There is nothing to do Amadeus 5 automatically applies this optimization to controllers having Eprom version from 15 10 2010 or 15 10 2009 for Mega controllers or later Note when using the INI entry Com_DownloadEmployeeDuringProcessing 1 this feature is not available In addition the preparation of messages to send was improved by using a new Stored Procedure spAllCardsOfCtl in the database allowing to save even more time during a complete initialization e Improved Cardholder Download Assume a 10 floor building has 10 controllers per floor making a total of 100 controllers When a visitor comes at the reception desk to get his new badge Amadeus 5 server downloads the card to the 100 controllers in a random order so that access at the ground floor entrance gate may take some time if many visitors arrive at the same time New improvement enables to assign to each controller a priority order so that the card is downloaded at the ground floor entrance gate first New INI option sendCtlWithPriority 1
20. ent doc version 1 14 Page 19 16 Tools 16 1 New DDS Maintenance tool for SQL databases Amadeus 5 SQL database needs continuous maintenance to keep it stable and in good E SQL maintenance SERVER SERVER2 DB Amadeus51 performance shape DDS developed this easy one ei Eai v DB Backup short term screen tool to allow users define the required 2 LE com ee maintenance jobs Using this tool the user can set Keep last backups 5 J his her preferences for the frequency and the time of E BR L Saiverb SOL NMSA DB Backup long term day each job should be performed It also gives the Every Month v On 1 first day x At 01 00 00 possibility to define email settings so that upon Keep last backups 24 C Keep all success or failure of each job a corresponding Backup di C Program Fles Microsoft SQL Servei MSSQL 1 MSSQL message is sent to the defined email address The Seer oe ver week On Sunda y At 02 00 lt es email messages are designed to be very short in ii p _ Update Statistics order to allow using Mail To SMS services and forward them within one standard SMS text Every Day On 4 every day y At 02 30 00 DB check Integrity message Evew week On Sunday At 030000 All these jobs are saved in the SQL Server and Shrink DB performed by the SQL Agent Therefore they run Eve Monn Oni 1 fistdey v At 03 30 00 regardless of w
21. ftware Nice Vision FAST allowing to support all the cameras supported by NiceVision FAST software The Mini Viewer application is launched on system start up and has a windows task bar icon allowing the user to open it after being minimized Amadeus 5 communicates with the Mini Viewer application via a windows messages mechanism and activates the required functionalities Once activated the user continues operating the video using the Mini Viewer The Mini Viewer has the following functionalities 1 Live video display of a selected camera doc version 1 14 Page amp 2 Playback of video according to an event including Trick Playback backward and forward in speeds up to x128 and frame by frame forward and backward playback 3 Controlling PTZ cameras including moving the camera to a pre defined pre set 4 Receiving alerts events from the Amadeus 5 and inserting them to the FAST system as event entity can be recorded and initiate other operations such as launching a specific video to be displayed on a wall monitor changing video recording configuration etc doesn t require a UI interaction i alpha Mini Viewer Fh 21 2011 11 13 12 aM Ringbuffer SingleStep Speed 1 Backw 10201 AIS MIPEG input 103628 Preset List press Download the viewer setup at www dds security com download dvr nice_setup exe and install the files in any folder The Viewer ALPHAObserver exe version 5 86 will be installed
22. he On line Help sections so from any screen the user simply presses F1 and the topics describing use of the current screen are shown 1 Introduction 1 1 Using the Documentation 12 Documentation Links 1 3 Copyright into C 1 4 Main Functions 1 Optional Modules 3 Parameters SS Acoms Cone ag Evert raresa vso seminar A J Pano fad ceapis fd ee waco Fa saat ccm ry norams E malig r Suara Poon Fa 6 Manual Actoni F 3 10 On line Help Additional Info System Screens 13 Examples 14 Technical 1 Into pe 2 Quick Guide ca arsam fl 220g sume fE 2 3 ner tenet Fag 24 Acceserg Heip Ss The documentation file is also available as an Acrobat pdf file This is fully cross referenced and linked and is designed to be accessed online but it can be printed if required The new help file is automatically installed during the software update or during a new application software setup In addition we have also updated the complete Amadeus 5 User Manual located on the setup CD which contains the same information in PDF format The User Manual file can be downloaded at www dds security com download am5 manual am5manual pdf 18 Additional Language Translations for Italian language have been added 19 MS SQL2008 Amadeus 5 is compatible with MS SQL2008 databases including Express licenses doc version 1 14 Page 22
23. hether Amadeus 5 is running at that Bee Every Week At 04 00 00 time or not Keep last days 5 i and more than max rows in log Note that SQL Express the free MS SQL Server aneri 2 vi xww does not include SQL Agent so this tool cannot be Rows to move in one batch 5 ij x100 set when using SQL Express Restore defaults Clear jobs history _ Gl Update SL maintenance settings 16 2 Log Archiving Support An option in the DDS Maintenance tool enables to archive old events automatically These events are removed from the event log table of the main database LOGt and placed in new external databases Each archive database contains only one table LOG structured exactly like the LOGt table in the main database When running the Report Wizard Amadeus 5 detects whether there are archive databases on the SQL Server If such archives are found the Wizard displays two new buttons Fill History List and Preview History Using these buttons the user can select which one of the history databases should be added to the main database when previewing a pre defined report Note The Preview History option works only on pre defined report layouts doc version 1 14 Page 20 E Report wizard Pai EEE S Ee _ Step 1 4 Select an existing report or click on new report icon to create an new report Aveilable reports 2 E Ea fa R Q MENE Creche a mew 100 1G v AG Stats nox oie oe Before meena tS report
24. moved when and by which user 1s now available after activating the New record and the Delete record options in the Tools gt Options gt Menu screen selecting Yes for saving in the Journal and or selecting Yes for displaying in the log event screen y Meszage Display sr Reader connected User Acknowledgment Ea User Confirmation User Comment Unknown Card i Unknown card unsuccessful suce NondAllocated Badge o L Newrecod es EEE eave recor as A __ dea Delete record 4 d For example we can have the following records in the log screen and in the journal after creating one group of 2 cards New record in screen CreateGRP Create Cardholder 10000001 User dds New record in screen CreateGRP Create Badge 10000001 User dds New record in screen CreateGRP Create Cardholder 10000002 User dds New record in screen CreateGRP Create Badge 10000002 User dds doc version 1 14 Page 12 after removing one group of 2 cards Delete record in screen CreateGRP Delete Cardholder 10000021 User dds Delete record in screen CreateGRP Delete Badge 10000021 User dds Delete record in screen CreateGRP Delete Cardholder 10000022 User dds Delete record in screen CreateGRP Delete Badge 10000022 User dds In addition when removing deleted cardholders or unallocated cards from the database from the two butto
25. n of the current number of commands in pending for a server and the existing total number of records in the QueueMSG table is now displayed in the Computer screen A Refresh button allows to update the information Number of commands in pending for this server Total number of records in the QueueMSG table Note this information is also displayed for workstations but it 1s not significant 13 Software Optimizations 13 1 User passwords can be required to have a minimum number of characters Some companies require that user authentication password must have at least 8 characters including numerals or special characters For that reason Amadeus 5 can doc version 1 14 Page 13 force now users to use minimum number of characters and minimum mixes of letters and digits for their password The two following ini entries allow to define rules for the user password PasswordMinLength n defines minimum length for the password 1 by default PasswordMixNumber n defines the minimum number of letters and digits Example PasswordMixNumber 2 would require at least 2 letters and 2 digits Note this option does not deal with forcing lower case and upper case letters 13 2 New Search option has been added to screens that can have long lists New Search field has been added in places where it may be possible to have long lists like reader list input list cardholder list in Global Reflex screen and in Action screen and contr
26. ns of the screen Tools gt Create a group of badges gt Delete the information of which cards cardholders were removed when and by which user is available in the same way Example Delete record in screen CreateGRP Delete all non allocated badges 00000999 User dds Delete record in screen CreateGRP Remove all deleted cardholders 10000001 User dds 12 Multi Site Improvements e Global and Shared people are viewable in Reports for all the users Since Global and Shared cardholders are viewable in the Cardholders screen these cardholders are now viewable in the reports by any user also e Customized fields are now visible in Cardholders screen for all the users In Multi Site configuration ALL the users can now see in Cardholders gt Customized screen the Customized fields of Shared and Global cardholders of other sites For example if Site A has its own Customized fields e g Age Eye color etc in Cardholders gt Customized screen users who control Site A can fill these fields for Local cardholders of Site A and all Global cardholders Now even users who don t control Site A can view Age and Eye color fields of Shared and Global cardholders e In Computer screen the total QueueMSG is displayed for each PC The QueueMSG is the database table where the different commands between the servers are exchanged The informatio
27. oller list in Diagnose screen Floor 2_Net Geek 0 Floor 24_Net 0 Floor 2B_Net 0 Floor 2C_Net 0 Floor 3_Net SER O Floor 34_Net 0 Floor 3B_Net 07 Floor 3 _Net 0 Floor 4_Net Oe 0S Floor 44BC_Net 0 Floor SABC_Net Floor 64BC_Net 0 Floor 746C_Net 0 Floor 9_10_ABC_Net 0 controller s selected 27 11 2011 13 29 13 3 Dongle cardholder limitation takes into account only cardholders who have a badge In order to generate historical reports some sites store all their visitors in Amadeus 5 even visitors who have left the site several months ago This method can quickly lead to reach the maximum cardholder limitation of the dongle unless using the new Amadeus 5 version gt About Version 2 2 020 ID 90939 Building Security Together 5470 64A 20006 94 GT 1 User dds doc version 1 14 Page 14 Until now the dongle cardholder limitation was on all the cardholders even those that do not have a card except deleted cardholders From this software version the limited number of cardholders of the dongle is relative to cardholders who have a badge only For example on one installation where visitors are created every day a batch of 200 cards is dedicated for visitors When new visitor arrives he receives the card of an old visitor but old visitors are not deleted from the database After 10 days the database contains 2 000 visitors and a dongle of
28. pports now all the cameras supported by Latitude version 6 software Like the other DVRs already integrated the integration consists on a viewer that can be launched from within Amadeus 5 providing live picture of a selected camera or viewing of a recorded event related to a system alarm Mi DVTelViewer S aa 000E paaa Connecting to server Download the viewer setup at www dds security com download dvr dvtel setup exe and install the files in any folder The Viewer DvTelPlayer exe will be installed in the bin folder Then set the new INI entry ViewerPath to specify the viewer location path in the hard disk Example ViewerPath C Program Files Amadeus5 bin DvTelPlayer exe Note that this integration requires Net framework 3 5 and DirectX 9 0c which are not distributed with the setup because they are too big 1 Microsoft NET Framework 3 5 redistributable http www microsoft com download en details aspx 1d 22 2 DirectX 9 0c redistributable http www microsoft com download en details aspx id 8 109 9 2 NICE A new video viewing application called alpha Mini Viewer has been developed by NICE for running with Amadeus 5 like the other DVRs already integrated in Amadeus 5 When running it from Amadeus 5 the alpha Mini Viewer is connecting to the NICE alpha Engine server that should be installed previously This server is based on the same system SDK as the NICE NVR Network Video Recorder so
29. ption Available Access Grou Anytime Anywhere Entrance door For example each member of the Security Department must belong to the Access Groups Entrance door and Strong room After adding these Access Groups to the Security Department as in the above picture every new cardholder of the Security Department will belong to these Access Groups automatically Notes This feature is not available when using simple access groups when the INI entries MultiSite 0 and ForceMultipleAG 0 This feature is stronger than the INI entries VisitorDefaultAccessGroup and CardholderDefaultAccessGroup This feature is stronger than the option Also for Visitor screen in the Access Group screen 5 3 Global Change on Access Groups can be made on Search results Let s say that a new reader has been installed and a part of the cardholders for example a whole department a specific company etc should have access it Adding this reader to each Access Group may be a fastidious work and could not be a good solution if Access Groups are shared with people who do not have access to that reader Create an Access Group with this reader only is a good solution but how to add this Access Group to the right people Adding access groups to a part of cardholders in one go is now possible After searching people in the Cardholder screen with the Search function e g for searching
30. ransaction i A Door pass i Ej Alarm history E Active alarms z A Doors Permissions ie BS Audit Relay First name m Page 11 E Re ports preview F Export 3 Print D g Date 27 09 2011 15 43 10 27 09 2011 15 43 13 27 09 2011 15 43 13 27 09 2011 15 43 52 27 09 2011 15 43 56 27 09 2011 15 44 01 27 09 2011 15 44 05 omaa m Door pass Reader RdrO1 Controller 003 RdrO1 Controller 003 RdrO1 Controller 003 RdrO1 Controller 003 RdrO1 Controller 003 RdrO1 Controller 003 RdrO1 Controller 003 Transaction code 0 0 0 50 76 19 12 Full name Robinson willy Brown Peter Smith Susan Robinson Willy Brown Peter Smith Susan Brown Peter si Preview 11 3 Last X hour field A new filter in the Report Wizard allows to select the events that occurred in the last x hours Step 3 4 Filter the data Click on a field and click on the specifics items EE Ba Available Fields Date Dake From Greater than or equal ica 2670972011 ae 0000 t rom o 7 Data C To Smaller than or equal User i 26709 2011 a 2359 C In the last 0 Monthis C In the last j1 pat Davis i In the last 01 pa Hour s 11 4 Additional audit information when creating removing group of cards cardholders When using the Create a Group of Badges screen to create or remove a group of cards cardholders the information of which cards cardholders were added re
31. rs are only allowed to be connected to the server but not to each other etc The Centralized spread configuration is described in the document 10TE512 Connecting multiple computers to a single Spread deamon Until now the method of Centralized Spread was not compatible to environment of redundant servers because all the workstations lost their spread connection when the main server failed For this reason the two following ini options have been added SpreadDeamonBackup 4803 lt NAME_OF_REDUNDANT_SERVER gt which defines the SpreadDeamon option of the Redundant Server SpreadDeamonWaitBeforeSwapSec 60 default which defines the delay before swapping to the Redundant Server For example SpreadDeamonBackup 4803 SERVER2 SpreadDeamonWaitBeforeSwapSec 30 Then when workstations do not succeed to connect to the Main Server Spread and if the delay before swapping to the Redundant Server is reached the workstations try to doc version 1 14 Page 16 connect to the second server When the Main Server is started they try to connect to the Main Server again Note that the Spread conf file should contain both servers and should be set like that in both servers Example Spread_Segment 239 0 0 60 4803 SERVERI 172 168 1 70 SERVER2 172 168 1 57 j Note that the ini option DontCreateConf 1 should be set on both servers 14 Integrations 14 1 KEESING KEESING 1s a paid service allowing to check via
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33. ttom of the main Cardholders screen in a scrollable window in order to regroup all the needed fields in the same screen Note ID field is positioned under the Number field The section Personalize Cardholder Screen in the ini file shows the categories that can be displayed Entries are in the form Cardholder_ lt info gt _Move_To_General n where lt info gt defines the field doc version 1 14 Page 3 information to move and n between 1 7 defines the sequence in which they will be displayed If n 0 the field is not moved Example Cardholder_Address_Move_To_General 1 Cardholder_ Visitor Move_To_ General 2 Note for opening automatically the Cardholder screen with the maximal size use the new INI option Cardholder_Open_Maximize Company field can be shown as a Combo box To change the Company field into combo box set the INI option Cardholder_Company_As_A_Combo 1 Note that it is not supported in Light version Here is an example of Cardholder screen customization H Cardholder __ E i jojx iW Hii KX OG A Q E New Save Delete First Prev Next Last Downld Search Print Close Select a cardholder Show deleted a hilis Bruce General Willis Bruce 100000001 00000002 00000003 00000004 00000005 00000006 00000007 00000008 00000009 00000010 10000010 10000011 10000012 10000013 10000014 10000015 10000016 aaa Avangard Vlis Bruce First name
34. upport Two new Suprema Biometric Readers have been integrated into the Amadeus 5 system BioLiteNet Finger Card Keypad Display BioEntryPlus Finger Card EM Marine and Mifare cards are supported following to the reader type Reader Type BioEntry Plus BEP BEPM OC BioLite Net BLR OC BLN OC As the other DDS biometric readers the same functions are available in Amadeus 5 enrolment downloading etc Only Finger only and Card Finger modes are supported Automatic badge creation after enrollement TCP or serial RS485 protocol Administrator password The reader configuration has to be done from the Suprema software BioStar These readers require the ini option Suprema 1 The ini option BioCreateBadge 1 enables the automatic badge creation during enrollement Note that it is no more possible to allocate to controllers and biometric readers the same network We had already warned in the past not to make this connection Now we have decided to completely restrict this possibility in Amadeus 5 in order to avoid future communication problems 2 Virtual Dongle Support The virtual Dongle is now the standard way for the Amadeus 5 license to be distributed In order for us to supply a license we must know the Unique PC ID of the target end user machine in addition to the required configuration total no of cardholders workstations alarm amp graphic modules etc The Unique PC ID is given by our Up
35. wizard from KEESING for more details see http www keesingreferencesystems com doc version 1 14 Page 17 When the Keesing Intake Wizard is completed and the 1 Check authentication of the document is finished pressing Retrieve Results automatically fills the relevant data in the Cardholder screen and links the scanned ID to the cardholder in the Attached document tab The user should then Save and allocate a card to the cardholder and the P ata appropriated Access group s in order it will pass through doors To use this integration the following ini entries should be set first KeesingIntegration 1 KeesingTest 1 for connection to Test server 0 for connection to Production server KeesingAccount Keesing Account name Keesing User Keesing User name ScannerType 0 Standard 1 ARH PRM 2 ARH_PRMc 3 3M RTE 8000 14 2 Updated XML API In addition to the AddException function the XML API has been updated with the DeleteException function that allows to delete existing Exceptions from cardholders In addition the XML API has been updated with the two new parameters lt SyncID gt and lt AnswerID gt for being capable to return a response to confirm that Amadeus 5 server has received the command for adding removing an exception 14 3 Updated OPC server Due to the fact OPC is based on polling mode if Amadeus 5 quickly changes OPC tag value the OPC client can miss the corresponding
36. y allow to edit different sort of Statistical reports like log records count per day or total of access per department or per visitor etc E Report wizard x Step 2 4 Select the source of the data and the check on the fields you want to see Fi Available Fields _ Journal reports Date pe 2 Journal simple Day Hour Select the data source z Door pass Transaction 23 Alarm history From S Active alarms Data Doors Permissions User Audit Relay Count 23 Journal Simple Statistics 53 Door Pass Statistics AmadeusS Top 1000 Journal Simple Statistics _ Parameters _ Event handling _ Modules _j Other Reports Day Transaction Count 19 08 2011 Access Granted z234 19 08 2011 Communication OK 2 19 08 2011 End of alarm 495 19 08 2011 Line cut 393 va Top 1000 x 19 08 2011 Line short 53 19 08 2011 Polling error Power Down Amadeus5 Top 1000 Power Up Start of Alarm Door Pass Statistics Department Count Financial 11 Management 3 Production 11 Sales 1 Training 16 11 2 Transaction codes Transaction codes may be now displayed in Door Pass reports This is especially useful when using the T module Zi Re port wizard Step 2 4 Select the source of the data and the check on the fields you want to see Select the data source Available Fields doc version 1 14 Journal reports Date ila Journal simple T
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