WiLife V2.1 manual Wait X Minutes to Lock, Accept Changes

Setting System Options User Guide

The Password System Lock feature exists on the same screen as the Change Password function located on the Setup > Advanced tab screen.

To access, click the Manage Security button.

Note: If you are not subscribed for WiLife Platinum, the Access Control section is grayed out. Thus, the “Exit Command Center” function is the only one available under the non-Platinum running Command Center, which requires a password --if a password is set-- to exit Command Center.

Similarly, if you are running WiLife Platinum, but no password is set, the Access Control section is also grayed out.

If any of the settings in the Access Control section are checked, Command Center will require the user to enter a password in order to gain access. The following table describes each setting:

Option

Exit Command Center

Show Command Center

Setup Options

Playback Video

Arm/Disarm Alerts

Digital Pan/Tilt/Zoom

Deleting a Video File

Description

The user will be asked for a password whenever they exit the Command Center.

The user will be asked for a password when they attempt to open the Command Center from the system tray.

The user will be asked for a password in order to access the Setup screens that include functions such as the Setup forms, Disk Usage form, the E-mail Configuration form, and Calendar. It also prohibits you from deleting cameras.

The user will be asked for a password when they try to enter Playback mode (from the Live mode).

Password lock dialog displays when user attempts manually arming or disarming alerts. The user will be asked for a password when they start a Pan/Tilt/Zoom session.

The user will be asked for a password when they attempt to delete a video file.

WAIT "X" MINUTES TO LOCK

Each time the user successfully enters the password, Command Center auto-authenticates for a number of minutes, as specified on the control panel above (“Wait X minutes to lock"). So if he has entered 10 minutes, then he won’t be bugged for the password unless he doesn’t use Command Center for 10 minutes. Command Center resets the 10-minute timer every time he clicks the mouse or hits a key in Command Center.

When 10 minutes of inactivity expires, an event is fired that is supposed to back out of anything that is active that the user has protected. For example, if Playback Video is checked, it will put Command Center into Live mode. If a camera is selected for PTZ, it will un-select it. If Setup Options is selected, it will close any of the following forms (if open): Setup form, Disk Usage form, email configuration form, Command Center schedule form, Camera Alert Properties form, Event Arm Early Properties form, Event Properties form, and Manual Alert Properties form.

For example, just to be sure you understand, they won’t even be bothered to do that if they have entered their password for some other reason, and it hasn’t timed out yet. So maybe they entered it to view the setup panel, and then decided to go into playback. They won’t be bothered again unless it’s been idle for 10 minutes.

Also, every time you “hide’ the Command Center it automatically zeroes out the timer, so you don’t leave any time “on the meter” so that someone else could walk in right after you hide Command Center, and find that there’s still five minutes of time on the timer.

ACCEPT CHANGES

You can change your password, or edit any of the Access Control options, or both, by clicking “Accept Changes.”

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