Picture Perfect 4.6 User Manual - UTCFS Global Security Products

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default to all operators in the system. This means that if a route definition has a scheduled
route point from 8:00:00 to 17:00:00, then alarms and activity with that route point’s route
definition are routed to only those operators listed in the route point during that time period.
But there are two other time periods for which there are no route points: 23:59:00 to 8:00:00
and 17:00:00 to 23:59:00. During these two time periods, alarms and activity with this route
definition are routed to all operators in the system.
• The Alarm Monitor reflects any changes made to the Alarm Monitor Routing configuration.
Database updates, however, only add entries to the Alarm Monitor; they cannot remove
entries.
The Alarm Monitor Routing feature not only affects the Alarm Monitor; it also affects the Alarm Alerts
pop-up. The same rules that apply to the Alarm Monitor also apply to the Alarm Alert. It displays only
if alarms can be viewed on the Alarm Monitor.
Related procedures
To create, edit, or delete a Route Point record:
1. Select Control, Routings, and then Route Points tab.
2. Refer to Creating, editing, deleting, and printing records on page 36.
Creating alarm instructions
Use the Alarm Messages form to write instructions that display when the various alarms occur, and
when they reset. Keep in mind that the same alarm may occur at different times of the day or week.
Your instructions (who to call, who to dispatch) may change depending on the shift. These alarm
messages appear in a list box that is used in the Alarms form.
Example
The policy at Global Corporation is to dispatch a security guard whenever an alarm comes in
indicating that a door has been forced open. Therefore, they have created a message that appears
on all Door Forced alarms instructing the operator to dispatch a guard.
Figure 46.Alarm Messages Form