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Manual Operations on Alarm Systems |
This menu allows you to manually change the state of an alarm system. You can arm, disarm or modify the postponement delay time of an alarm partition. The Alarm systems menu is only used under Global Gateways.
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Arm alarm: will automatically arm an alarm system when the arming delay is over. |
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Disarm alarm: will automatically disarm the selected alarm system. |
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Alarm postpone: will automatically postpone the delay time of an alarm system while the alarm system is in “postpone mode”. |
You can also visualize the remaining time for the entry, exit, arm request or arm postponement delays, under way for any of the alarm partitions.
Note: It is not possible to “postpone” an alarm partition from this window, it can only be done at a reader using a card.
Performing Manual Operations on an Alarm System
1 - From the Operation window, select the Alarm system button.
2 - Click the Enable animation button to view a real-time display of the alarm system status.
• The left-hand pane displays the list of all system gateways. You may select All or select an individual gateway.
• The individual alarm system associated with the gateway selected on the left are displayed in the right pane. If you select All on the left, all alarm systems will be listed on the right. You can select one, several or all alarm system.
Arming an Alarm System Manually
This option is used to automatically arm the alarm system when the arming delay is over. For more information on arming alarm systems, see Alarm Systems Definition (Global/KT-NCC).
1 - Select a gateway or an alarm system.
2 - Click the Arm alarm button. The selected alarm system will automatically be armed.
Disarming an Alarm System Manually
This option is used to disarm the selected alarm system. The system will disarm automatically. For more information on disarming alarm systems, see Alarm Systems Definition (Global/KT-NCC).
1 - Select a gateway or an alarm system.
2 - Click the Disarm alarm button. The selected alarm system will automatically be disarmed.
Note: If a “no disarm” schedule is effective and an operator disarms the system, the alarm system’s exit delay will activate before the partition arms automatically. After the exit delay, the alarm system will arm again if there is no postpone and if the “no disarm” schedule is still valid.
Modifying the Alarm System Postponement Delay Manually
This option is used to modify the postponement delay time of an alarm system while the alarm system is in “postpone mode”.
1 - Select gateway or an alarm system.
2 - Click the Alarm postpone. The Change delay on action dialog will pop up.
3 - Enter the New time delay (m:ss) and click OK. The selected alarm system postponement delay will be modified. Maximum allowed: 16 hours.
Note: This operation will not “decrement” the postpone count allowed.