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System Profiles: This simulates the Witness System profile. It shows the currently selected profile and allows you to change the profile. The profile can be changed by selecting the required profile and selecting the Set System Profile button. This can trigger outgoing profile status reports (e.g. ICD-001) and also respond to incoming profile change requests.
Selected
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: Checkbox to select a system profile.
Profile Id
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: Numeric Id of the profile.
Profile Name
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: The name of the profile.
Areas
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Areas: This simulates a fixed list of areas. Each area has a different type and displays the state. The state can be changed by highlighting an area and selecting the Set State button. In addition, if an area state is changed through an integration plugin then the modified state will be displayed here.
Id
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: The area user Id.
Name
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: Area name.
Type
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: The area type.
Enabled
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: The current state of the area.
Disarm Mode
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: The current mode of the area.
System Health Simulator
The health simulator enables you to generate health status reports and alarms with details of radar and modules. You can adjust the status of the radar and the modules using the plugin configuration, for example you can change a radar’s health or connection health to unhealthy, and then you can generate a status report or an alarm to report this change.
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Radars: This is a list of pre-configured radar showing their health and connection status. Both can be changed for testing purposes:
Include
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: Option to include or exclude the radar within the health reporting
Name: Name
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of the radar
Id
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: User Id of the radar
Health: Health
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status of the radar
Connection Health
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: Health status of the radar connection
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The number of radars listed is based on the number of radars configured in the Security or Highways Simulator plugin. Both these plugins allow you to change the number of available radar. They will always provide 5 radar by default. |
Modules: This is a list of pre-configured modules and active integration plugins showing their connection health status. The Management Server also has an additional status that simulates the database health. All available health states can be changed for testing purposes.
Include
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: Option to include or exclude the radar within the health reporting
Module Name
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: Name of the module
Connection Health
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: Current module health status
Database Health
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: Current database health
To trigger a topology update, which is usually translated to a status report by the integration plugins, select the Send Topology button. To trigger one or more health alarms based on any radars or modules that have health status set to anything other than Healthy, select the Send Alarms button.
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To clear a health alarm, set the health status on the radar or the module back to Healthy and resend the alarms using Send Alarms. |
Security Simulator
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Configure Simulation
These buttons provide options to manage the simulator configuration:
Configure Radars
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: Allows you to change the number of radars to simulate - both for alarms and health.
Save Configuration
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: Enables you to force the configuration to be saved.
Reset Configuration
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: Resets and reloads the configuration. This option honours the configured number of radar but it will also reset the data to the last saved state. This enables configs to be saved and moved to a different PC if required.
Security Alarms
Allows you to create, publish and clear security alarms:
Add Alarms
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: Select this button to create a new alarm. Once clicked the alarm form will become enabled so you can populate the alarm details
Send Alarms
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: Select this to publish all alarms to the plugins. The plugins will receive the alarms have send out messages based on the current alarm states.
Clear Alarms
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: Select this to clear all selected alarms in the active alarms list
Acknowledge Alarms
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: Select this to acknowledge the selected alarms. This will clear the alarms from the list
Adding Alarms
To add a new alarm:
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1. Select Add Alarms.
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Allows you to create and publish camera movement commands. The simulator provides 3 default cameras for testing.
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Send Camera Command
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: Sends a camera command for the selected camera
To send a camera control:
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Allows you to create and publish tracks. Tracks can include the normal position and movement data as well as broken rule information.
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Add Track
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: Allows you to enter new track details
Send Tracks
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: Select this to publish the active list of tracks
Clear Tracks
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: Select this to clear the selected tracks
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Add Tracks
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1. Select Add Track.
2. The track will be added to the active track list with default data.
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Once you have added a track, you can easily change the track attributes by selecting it in the list and then changing the attributes in the Tracks form. This allows you to add multiple tracks with the ability to update them as required. The tracks will remain editable even after you have selected Send Tracks. Each time you select Send Tracks the same tracks will be sent but with whatever values have been set in the Tracks form. This gives you the ability to simulate a moving track. |
To
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Remove a
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Track
1. Select one or more tracks from the active tracks list by using the Remove checkbox column
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