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3 , and may be registered or pending registration in several trademarks used in this document may be trademarks of the manufacturers or vendors of therespective specifications are subject to change without informationDocument title: Security Desk user Guide Document number: (4)Document update date: July 28, 2016 You can send your comments, corrections, and suggestions about this Guide this guideThis Guide describes Security Desk features and commands, and provides instruction on how toperform tasks, such as live monitoring of events, video playback and instant replay, report generation,LPR route playback, alarm management, and visitor and noticesThe following notes and notices might appear in this Guide : Tip. Suggests how to apply the information in a topic or step.

4 Note. Explains a special case, or expands on an important point. Important. Points out critical information concerning a topic or step. Caution. Indicates that an action or step can cause loss of data, Security problems, or performanceissues. Warning. Indicates that an action or step can result in physical harm, or cause damage to : Topics appearing in this Guide that reference information found on third-party websiteswere accurate at the time of publication, however, this information is subject to change without priornotice to | Security Desk user Guide (4) | Last updated: July 28, 2016 ivContentsPreface: PrefaceCopyright notice .. iiAbout this Guide .. iiiPart I: Introduction to Security DeskChapter 1: Security Desk at a glanceAbout Security Desk.

5 3 How Security Center is organized .. 4 Logging on to Security Desk .. 5 Closing Security Desk .. 6 Defining how your workspace is saved .. 6 Home page overview .. 7UI component overview .. 9 Overview of the About page .. 11 About the area view .. 13 Changing passwords .. 15 Sending feedback .. 16 Chapter 2: CanvasAbout tiles .. 18 Tile menu commands .. 20 Viewing entities in the canvas .. 22 Customizing how entities are displayed in the canvas .. 22 How maps are displayed in the Security Desk canvas .. 23 Unpacking content in tiles.

6 24 Customizing entity cycling options .. 25 Maximizing the canvas to full screen .. 26 Selecting which monitors can switch to full screen .. 26 Changing tile patterns .. 27 Editing and creating tile patterns .. 28 Customizing how tiles are displayed .. 29 Chapter 3: WidgetsAlarm widget .. 31 Area widget .. 33 Camera widget .. 34 Door widget .. 37 Intrusion detection area widget .. 38 PTZ widget .. | Security Desk user Guide (4) | Last updated: July 28, 2016 vTile widget .. 41 Zone widget .. 43 Chapter 4: TasksOpening tasks .. 45 Saving tasks.

7 46 Adding tasks to your Favorites list .. 47 Hiding the Favorites and Recent items lists from your home page .. 47 Sending tasks to other users .. 48 Sending tasks using a manual action .. 48 Closing tasks using a system action .. 50 Customizing task behaviour .. 51 Chapter 5: ReportsReporting task workspace overview .. 53 Generating reports .. 55 Selecting date and time ranges for reports .. 55 Exporting generated reports .. 56 Printing generated reports .. 57 Customizing time zone settings .. 57 Generating and saving reports .. 59 Generating and saving reports using a system action.

8 59 Customizing the report pane .. 61 Customizing report behavior .. 62 Chapter 6: Basic tasksMonitoring events .. 64 Selecting events to monitor .. 65 Selecting entities to monitor .. 65 Event colors .. 66 Customizing Monitoring task options .. 67 Event occurrence period .. 68 Searching for entities .. 69 Searching for entities using the search tool .. 69 Triggering hot actions .. 71 Triggering one-time actions .. 72 Configuring the notification tray .. 73 Notification tray icons .. 73 Moving the taskbar .. 76 Remote monitoring.

9 77 Connecting to remote Security Desks .. 78 Monitoring events on remote Security Desks .. 80 Monitoring alarms on remote Security Desks .. | Security Desk user Guide (4) | Last updated: July 28, 2016 viActions you can perform on remote Security Desks .. 82 Chapter 7: Working with mapsAbout Plan Manager .. 86 Working with maps .. 87 Basic map commands .. 87 Showing or hiding information on your maps .. 88 Differences between Monitoring and Maps tasks .. 89 Supported map objects .. 91 Chapter 8: Advanced tasksStarting macros .. 96 Finding out what changes were made to the system configuration.

10 97 Report pane columns for the Audit trails task .. 97 Investigating user related activity on the system .. 98 Report pane columns for the Activity trails task .. 100 Viewing properties of units .. 101 Report pane columns for the Hardware inventory task .. 101 Monitoring your computer resources .. 103 Hardware information dialog box .. 103 Using the hardware benchmark tool .. 105 Shortcuts to external tools .. 107 Customizing user logon options .. 109 Customizing network options .. 111 Chapter 9: Keyboard shortcutsDefault keyboard shortcuts .. 113 Switching tasks using your keyboard.