Access Control System: User Manual
Access Control System: User Manual
User Manual
UD.6L0207D1029A01
Contents
Chapter 1 Overview
1.1 Description
An access control system is a system of checking permission of door access. It provides multiple
functionalities, including device management, people/card management, permission configuration,
door status management, event search, etc.
This user manual describes the function, configuration and operation steps of Access Control System.
To ensure the properness of usage and stability of the system, please refer to the contents below and
read the manual carefully before installation and operation.
Configuration Flow
Refer to the following flow chart for the configuration order.
Configure the Card Dispenser
View Status
Click the
The interface is divided into 2 parts: device management and online device detection.
Device Management:
Manage the access control devices, including adding, editing, deleting, and batch time
synchronizing functions.
Online Device Detection:
Automatically detect online devices in the same subnet with the access control server, and the
detected devices can be added to the server in an easy way.
2. Input the device name in the text filed to be displayed in the software.
3. Select the device type in the dropdown list.
4. Select the connection mode in the dropdown list: TCP/IP or COM port.
COM1-5: Connect the device via the COM port.
TCP/IP: Connect the device via the network.
5. Set the parameters of connecting the device.
If you choose to connect the device via network, you should input the IP address and port No.
of the device, and set the Dial-up value to 1.
If you choose to connect the device via COM port, you should set the Baud Rate and Dial-up
value.
6. Click the
Editing Device
Purpose:
After adding the device, some advanced parameters can be configured in the editing device
interface, e.g. downloading hardware parameters, reading hardware parameters, time
synchronizing, configuring access point, etc.
Steps:
1. In the device list, click
device.
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2. Configure the basic parameters of the device on your demand, which are the same as the
ones when adding the device.
3. (Optional) Check the checkbox of Enable Holiday to enable the holiday parameters when
downloading permissions.
4. Click the
5. Click the
the device.
Deleting Device
Steps:
1. In the device list, select a device by clicking it, or select multiple devices by pressing Ctrl
button on your keyboard and clicking them one by one.
2. Click the
A message box will pop up on the lower-right corner of the screen when the time
synchronization is compeleted.
Click the
interface.
Group Management
The doors can be added to different groups to realize the centralized management.
Door Management
Manage the specific door under the door group, including importing, editing and deleting door.
2. Input the group name in the text field and click the
button.
to
Editing Door
Steps:
1. Click to select a door in the list and click the
Note: you can also enter the Edit interface by double clicking the door from the list.
Deleting Door
Several ways are supported to delete the door, as shown below.
Click to select a group in the group list, select door(s) under it, and click
button.
Move the mouse onto a group in the group list, and click
button to delete all doors
under the group.
Note: you can also edit/delete a door on the Import Access Control Point panel.
Steps:
1. Select a control point on the Group panel.
2. Click the
icon to enter the Edit Access Control Point panel or to delete the control
point.
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Click the
Adding, editing, deleting and filtering of the department and person are supported in this
interface.
interface.
Notes:
Multi-level department system can be created. Click a department as the upper-level
deparment and click
Notes:
The lower-level departments will be deleted as well if you delete a department.
Make sure there is no person added under the department, or the department cannot
be deleted.
to finish adding.
If a card is associated with the current person, the association will be invalid after the person
is deleted.
Click
management interface.
The cards are divided into 3 types: Blank Card, Normal Card, and Lost Card.
Blank Card: A card has not been issued with a person.
Normal Card: A card is issued with a person and is under normal using.
Lost Card: A card is issued with a person and is reported as lost.
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to
person.
Note: you can double click the blank card in the card list to enter the Issue Card Page.
5. Click to choose a person on your demand in the popup dialog box and click
to
finish.
The issued card will disappear from the Blank Card list, you can check the card information in
the Normal Card list.
Deleting Card
You can click an added blank card in the list and click
selected card.
tab in the card managemet interface to show the Normal Card list. You
can view all the issued card information, including card No., card holder, and the department of
the card holder.
holder. Select another card in the popup window to replace the current card.
card, then the card will disappear from the Normal Card list, which you can find it in the
Blank Card list.
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set the password in the text filed and click the OK button to finish setting.
The password will be required when the card holder swiping the card to get enter to or exit
from the door if you enable the card&password authentication on the advanced
configuration page.
tab in the card managemet interface to show the Lost Card list. You
can view all the lost card information, including card No., card holder, and the department of the
card holder.
Click the
Click the
button to issue a new card to the card holder replacing for the lost
card. Select another card in the popup window as the new card and the predefined
permissions of the lost card will be copied to the new one automatically.
2. Input the name of week plan in the text filed and click the
week plan.
3. Select a week plan in the plan list on the left-side of the window to edit.
4. Click and drag your mouse on a day to draw a blue bar on the schedule, which means in that
period of time, the cofigured permission is activated.
5. Repeat the above step to configure other time periods.
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Click the
to delete it.
to clear all the configured durations, while the week plan still
exists.
Click the
2. Input the name of holiday group in the text filed and click the
holiday group.
Note:At most 4 holiday groups can be added.
3. Select a week plan in the plan list on the left-side of the window to edit.
4. Click the
1) Click and drag your mouse on a day to draw a blue bar on the schedule, which means in
that duration, the cofigured permission is activated.
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to delete it.
3) Click the
to clear all the configured durations, while the holiday still exists.
4) Click the
5. Click the
2. Input the name of schedule in the text filed and click the
schedule.
3. Select a week plan you want to apply to the schedule.
Click the Week Plan tab and select a plan in the dropdown list.
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Click to select a holiday group in the left-side list and click the
Click to select an added holiday group in the right-side list and click the
to add it.
Click the
5. Click the
Click the
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Steps:
1.
2.
Click and select a door from the door list on the left side of the page.
3.
Click and drag the mouse to draw a color bar on the schedule map to set the duration.
Notes
You can copy the configured time periods of a day to the whole week.
Steps:
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1.
4.
2. Click on
Edit the schedule map.
Edit Duration:
Click and drag the color bar on the schedule map and you can move the bar on the time
track.
Click and drag the mouse on the ends of the color bar and you can adjust the length of the
bar.
Delete a Duration:
Click and select a color bar and click
5.
Click on
6.
7.
Click on
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8.
Select a control point and click OK to download the configuration to the system.
Click the
Permission Configuration
Purpose:
You can allocate permission for people/department to enter/exist the control points (doors) in
this section.
Steps:
1. Enter the Permission page.
2.
Click on
icon on the upper-left side of the page to enter the Add Permission
page.
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5. Click on the dropdown menu to select a schedule template for the permission.
Note: The schedule template must be configured before any permission settings. Refer to
3.3 Schedule Template for detailed configuration guide.
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6. Select people/ department and corresponding doors/door groups from the appropriate lists.
Note: The lower-level of department will also be selected if the highest-level of department
is selected,
7. Click Done to complete the permission creation.
8. Click
9. Select a control point and click OK to download the permission to the device.
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Permission Searching
Purpose:
After the permission configuration being completed, you can search and view permission
assigning condition on the searching interface.
Steps:
1. Enter the Permission page.
2.
3.
4.
Note: You can click Reset on the search criteria panel to clear all the displayed search results.
Permission Deleting
Steps:
1. Follow steps 1-3 in the Permission Searching section to search for the permission needs to be
deleted.
2. Click to select the permission from the results list.
Note: you can press the CTRL or Shift key on the keyboard,
3. Click
4. Click
5. Select a control point and click OK to download the deletion operation to the device.
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Chapter 4
Access Control
Purpose:
In this section, you are able to anti-control the status of the door and to check the event report of
the control point.
To access the following functions, please login the iVMS-5200P Control Client, and click
Tool->Access Control Configuration
Click the
2.
3.
Click on the button listed on the upper-left side of the Status Information panel to select a
door status for the door.
: Click on the button to open the door once.
: Click on the button to close the door once.
: Click on the button to keep the door open.
: Click on the button to keep the door closed.
4.
Note: If the status is selected as Remain Open/Remain Closed, the door will keep open/ closed
until a new anti-control command being made.
Group Anti-control
Purpose:
You can control the status for a group of control points (doors) in this section.
Steps:
1. Enter the status monitor page.
2. Right click on a group in the Group list and to select a door status for the group.
Note: If the status is selected as Remain Open/Remain Closed, all the doors in the group will
keep open/ closed until a new anti-control command being made.
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Click the
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Steps:
1. Enter the access event page.
2. View the event information in the event list.
3. Click on an event to view the information of the card holder on the Person Information panel
on the left side of the page.
Click the
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Steps:
1. Enter the event search page.
2. Enter the search criteria (event type/ person name/ card No/ start &end time).
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Click the
You can check the operation time, log type and other information of the logs.
Note: Please narrow the search condition if there are too many log files.
Steps:
1. Open the Log Search page.
2. Select the radio button of Control Logs.
3. Select the operation type as Access Control Logs.
4. Click the icon
to specify the start time and end time.
5. Click Search. The matched log files will display on the list.
You can check the operation time, log type and other information of the logs.
Note: Please narrow the search condition if there are too many log files.
Log Search
Purpose:
The Log Search of the Access Control System include informations for configuration log files and
control log files.
Steps:
1. Open the Log Search page.
2. Select the radio button of Control Logs.
3. Select the operation type as Log Search.
4. Click the icon
to specify the start time and end time.
5. Click Search. The matched log files will display on the list.
You can check the operation time, log type and other information of the logs.
Note: Please narrow the search condition if there are too many log files.
Click the
page.
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Configuration page.
Configuration Instruction
Purpose:
The Card Reader Configuration of the Access Control System can configure device type,
connection mode, serial port, baud rate and other parameters of the Card Reader Configuration.
DS-K1F100-M: select Serial Port Mode as accessing mode (currently only support serial port
mode), the serial port NO. is the COM port NO. of the computer. Set other parameters as
default.
D8E-U-A-III: select USB Mode as accessing mode (currently only support USB mode). Set
other parameters as default.
It is supported using card type as regular and Wiegand.
When the BEEP is selected as YES, the audio will be off when you click the SAVE if the
Card Reader Configuration is set wrong; the audio will be on when you click the Save and
when you insert the card reader if the configuration is set correct.
Note: You can click Default Value to restore the defaults of all the local configurations.
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