GE v6 user manual Archive Database, Database Connection, Console alarm sound

Settings Tab

Parameters Form

Use this tab to set the general system settings.

Archive Database

Select an option to schedule archiving history. Archiving creates a copy of the latest history transactions, leaving your history database empty. The default value for this option is Monthly. If you select:

•Daily: The archive is appended every day beginning at 11:59:58 P.M.

•Weekly: The archive is appended every week on the day that you select, beginning at 11:59:58 P.M. (You must select a day of the week.) Any change in the scheduling occurs immediately. For example, if archiving is taking place on Tuesdays and the schedule is revised to archive on Wednesday, the archiving will occur one day later, on Wednesday.

•Monthly: The archive is appended on the last day of the month beginning at 11:59:58 P.M.

The Secure Perfect services do NOT have to be running. Archiving will occur as long as SQL Server Agent services are running.

Database Connection

This feature allows you to configure the amount of time that elapes before your Secure Perfect system detects and advises you that your database is not accessable.

•Timeout (sec): The default is 30 seconds. The minimum is 3 seconds; the maximum is 120 seconds. 1) In a Secure Perfect Global Edition configuration, this is the amount of time until a Regional failover begins. 2) In a typical Secure Perfect configuration, this is the amount of time before Secure Perfect transactions are saved, Secure Perfect services shut down, and a message advises you to repair your database.

•Retry: The default is 3 retries. The minimum is ‘0’; the maximum is 5 retries.

Photo Aspect Ratio: Select or enter a number for the height and the width. The aspect ratio controls the relationship between the height and width of the photos. This setting controls the photos displayed in the Capture program, on the Person Form, and in the Badge Designer program.

Console alarm sound:

•Continuous/Short: Select Continuous to sound a continuous tone when alarms are detected. Select Short to sound a short tone when alarms are detected.

Enable global T&A: (Selected by default.) Select this check box if you want the entry status (either IN or OUT) for all badges using Time and Attendance readers to be sent to and enforced by all micros. Disabling the check box will require each micro to enforce T&A independently.

Enable global APB: (Selected by default.) Select this check box if you want the entry status (either IN or OUT) for all badges using anti-passback readers to be sent to and enforced by all micros. Disabling the check box will require each micro to enforce anti-passback on readers within each micro.

Enable unique & required Employee Number: (Selected and unavailable by default.) This checkbox is only available after converting and upgrading a previous database. This feature enforces assignment of unique and required Employee numbers for each Person record.

Grant Access on Duress: Select this check box to allow a door to open, and to signal a threatening situation. With a valid access right and valid badge, a 1 + PIN code is entered at the reader. This sequence generates a duress alarm that displays on the Alarm Monitor similar to the following: 0001-1-

01Duress. The Activity Monitor displays activity type as Duress Activity. The default setting for your system includes this feature already selected. Clear this checkbox if you do not want this feature.

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