Enhanced flexibility with Security Center 5.12.2

Use custom fields and perform searches in the System status task

As of Security Center 5.12.2, you can use custom fields in the System status task. This powerful setting lets your system administrators label entities in the System status task with extra information that matters. Examples include server rack location for each role, installation date for hardware, or asset type for internal reviews. In addition to supporting the custom fields, the System status task is now searchable. This speeds up finding an asset you're looking for and allows for filtered views based on existing or new custom fields you've added. Create custom reports and easily manage your physical assets.

 

 

 

Replace cameras with confidence

Replacing cameras can be tedious, requiring many manual steps. Both the camera and system configurations must be updated to preserve camera settings like recording and stream settings or to maintain system-wide associations with alarms, doors, map placements, event-to-actions, and other entities. These manual processes are not only time-consuming but also prone to human error, and at large scale, this issue can be more painful when it comes time to replace more than one unit.

With the Unit replacement tool in Security Center 5.12.2, you can now automatically transfer camera settings and related entities from an old camera to a new one. The enhanced Unit replacement tool helps copy all these settings automatically to minimize the manual work needed. All settings will be copied over if the original and replacement cameras are the same brand and model. If the replacement camera is a different brand or model than the original camera, then only the compatible settings between the old and new cameras will be transferred during the transfer phase. This feature allows administrative users to move camera settings efficiently during unit replacements, saving time and reducing errors.

 

 

Create Peer-2-Peer (P2P) clusters

Building on the P2P feature of Synergis™, Security Center 5.12.2 users can now form P2P clusters to increase the number of access control units that a single role can handle. This removes the previous limit of 15 units per role and instead allows you to create as many P2P groups as you need, with each group supporting up to 15 units. You can still decide whether each unit is part of one cluster or operates independently. You can also set up and name clusters to help indicate their purpose and identify which units are included in each. Overall, this new feature offers flexible options to manage your failover strategy, enabling possibilities for storage savings and a simpler architecture.

Benefit from flexible Archiver recording functions

This feature improves your ability to switch to backup servers by letting system administrators set different recording qualities for your archivers on each server. This feature has two main benefits: First, archiving settings can be adjusted to save storage space. Your administrators can customize your archivers' stream usage and recording quality according to your specific needs, allowing you to use storage efficiently, leading to cost savings and better resource allocation. Second, this feature eliminates the need for extra archivers that your organization may use to record streams in different resolutions. Instead, with this new capability, administrators can directly change the recording quality on your backup archivers, removing the need for more hardware.

 

 

Display readers in the hardware inventory task

This feature improves visibility by bringing together readers from all access control integrations into the hardware inventory task. This covers Synergis™ Cloud Link, legacy Synergis Cloud Link, and Axis Powered by Genetec™ appliances. You can easily recognize and distinguish between different reader types, including secure connections like OSDP and encrypted readers, versus non-secure ones such as Wiegand or Clock and Data protocols. This unified view simplifies monitoring and management, ensuring complete oversight of readers, which leads to better-informed decisions.

 

  

 

New capabilities for Security Center Automation Preview mode

We continue to improve Security Center Automation in Security Center 5.12.2 by adding more functionality to the Preview mode and optimizing the user interface as we approach a full launch of this new feature. Event-based automations are now more powerful and can handle more complex situations. You can now choose whole cardholder groups, use "AND" conditions and "FOR" filters on some events, and use contextual actions when setting up one of these access control actions:

• Forgive antipassback violation
• Shunt reader
• Silence buzzer
• Sound buzzer
• Unlock area perimeter door explicitly
• Unlock door explicitly

Security Center 5.12.2 also adds:

• H.265 support through the Security Center Web App
• Bookmarking report image thumbnails
• Importing AutoVu™ Plate Finder ALPR data