C•CURE 800/8000 Monitoring Station Guide - Tyco Security Products

Monitoring and Manipulating Security Area PersonnelTable 3-11: Areas Dialog Box and Fields, continuedBox Field/Column/Button DescriptionManual Actions forSelected AreaActions for All AreasComm StateCount SetSet Count toDe-musterDe-muster areaGrace all personnelDe-muster all personnelCommunication status of all panels/controllers in the area asfollows:• Normal: If all the panels/controllers are communicating.• Comm. Fail: If none of the panels/controllers arecommunicating.• Partial: If only some of the controllers are communicatingwith each other.NOTE: If a controller is in partial or complete communicationsfailure, occupancy restrictions for the area are notenforced unless all access readers are on one controller.(The Partial state is not available for apC panels.)To manually set the count for the number of personnel in thearea selected in the List of Areas box, click the Set Count tobutton after entering a value in the field next to it. (This changesthe number displayed in the Area list box Count field for theselected area.)To manually de-muster personnel in the area selected in the Listof Areas box, click the De-muster Area button.From this box you can perform the following actions for all areasin the system.• De-muster all personnel• 'Grace' card holders. The first time personnel use their cardsafter a grace action, the system does not check forantipassback violations and also allows them into areas fromwhich they are usually locked out. For all subsequent use oftheir cards, the system returns to checking for antipassbackviolations and enforcing area lockouts.• If the system is not partitioned, the Grace all personnelbutton displays in the top of the Actions for All Areas box.• If the system is partitioned, the Actions with Partition boxdisplays in the bottom of the Actions for All Areas box withthe Partition drop-down list and the Grace button beneath.Click this button to grace all cardholders in the database.Click this button to de-muster all personnel and then click Yes onthe confirmation dialog box that appears. All personnel in themustering areas in the system have their areas set to the demusteringarea.3–36 C•CURE 800/8000 Monitoring Station User Guide