Navigating AdvanceGuard®

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Last updated: Dec 13, 2022 by Charlotte Dakin-Norris
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Introduction

This section labels the main aspects of the AdvanceGuard® display. If you are uncertain of any named aspect of the display used in this documentation, this is your point of reference. Most of the display sections can be re-arranged or configured by dragging and dropping the panels. The entire user interface supports a docking mechanism enabling you to move and dock panels based on your user preference.

Contents

Main Display Features

Page Tabs:

Live tab: The primary map display to show all real time data and incidents.

Playback tab: The data query facility. This tab allows you to conduct sophisticated queries on all recorded data including tracks and alarms.

Alarm Dashboard tab: The Alarm Dashboard gives an overview of recent alarms.

Topology tab: The topology tab provides an overview of all the sensors, cameras and system modules currently deployed within the Witness™ system. This view provides the ability to see health and offers full control of all modules across the network.

Edit Lock Icon: This indicates the current status of the edit lock:

No Edit Lock - the icon will remain white when there are no edits in progress - anyone with the correct permissions can start an edit.

Local Edit Lock - the icon will go green when you are making an edit in your UI client. No one else can initiate an edit until you have finished.

Remote Edit Lock - the icon will go red when another user on a different workstation has initiated a lock. You will not be able to start an edit until they have finished.

Help: Documentation: This button provides a link to related documentation.

Window Commands:

System Mode: The current selected System Mode. This also acts as a selector so that the user can change the current mode.

System Profile: The current selected . This also acts a selector so the user can change the current profile.

Notification Dropdown List: Shows a list of the last 30 notifications that have been displayed in the UI.

Config Function button ⚙: Enables configuration mode. This allows configuration settings to be edited and also displays the additional configuration panel.

System Menu: Opens the .

Live

PPI Map Display: This is the primary map display that provides operators situational awareness across their entire site, offering real time information on targets and incidents.

PPI Navigation Control: Controls to help navigate around the map display, including pan, zoom and return to the origin.

Track Details: Displays details of the selected track.

Map Scale: Displays the current map scale for the activate zoom level.

Radar Mini Control: Displays data about the selected Radar. Please refer to for more information.

Alarm Panel: Displays details of active alarms, pending alarms and system alarms. In addition details on active and retained tracks are also displayed in separate tabs.

Live - Configuration Mode

Live view with the configuration mode enabled:

PPI Map Display: This is the primary map display that provides system integrators the ability to select, position and configure entities across the site.

PPI Navigation Control: Controls to help navigate around the map display, including pan, zoom and return to the origin.

Configuration Tree: Displays all configurable entities in the system. The tree is organised into configurable folders. When configuring the system entities can be organised by creating folders to host entities. Entities can be easily dragged from one folder to another to help logically group items together.

Configuration Panel: The panel displays the configuration options for the selected entity. To select an entity, you can either click on it using the map or from the Configuration Tree.

Radar Mini Control: Displays data about the selected Radar.

Playback Control: This control will only be visible when playback tracks have been configured. It provides the ability to start, pause and stop track playback.

Playback

PPI Map Display: The primary map display that is used to show any relevant results from the queries. For example track query results can show where historical tracks have moved through the site or alarm results can show where alarms were triggered.

Query Panel: Shows all the query options. One or more queries and their relevant filtering criteria can be configured in this panel.

PPI Navigation Control: Controls to help navigate around the map display, including pan, zoom and return to the origin.

Radar Mini Control: Displays data about the selected Radar.

Timeline and Timescale: This provides a user-friendly way of selecting a suitable timer period for the query. All queries which are selected will be filtered based on the selected time period.

Results Panel: This shows the results for all the selected queries. Typically the result from each selected query will appear in a separate tab.

Alarm Dashboard

Time Period Panel: The default time period will be 24 hours, but a period of 48 or 72 hours can be selected. The user can also export the data.

Rules: The rules which have been broken. It is possible to adjust the alarm results displayed in the Alarms by Time line graph by 'deselecting' rules and areas, through clicking on their bars. This will remove that rule's alarm data from the accumulated data displayed in the line graph, and could be useful if a scale is skewed by a particular rule's alarm count being far higher than any other. A 'deselected' rule is indicated by changing from opaque to translucent blue.

If all of the rules and areas are deselected then the Alarms By Time graph will show all of the alarms for the selected period.

Areas: This displays the areas where an alarm has been triggered. Again, it is possible to adjust the alarm results displayed in the Alarms by Time line graph by 'deselecting' rules and areas, through clicking on their bars.

Alarms by Time: This represents the spread of alarm frequency over time. There are two alarm line-graphs; Alarms by Time and System Alarms. Each represents the spread of alarm frequency over time. The default time period will be 24 hours, but a period of up to 72 hours can be selected. The numbering alarms per specific hour can be identified by hovering the cursor over the points of the line graph:

System Alarms: This represents the alarms caused by any system fault or failure over the time period selected (the default will be 24 hours).

 

By hovering the curser over a bar or a point on a graph, the system will display the value or that bar or point:

In the two examples below, all but one Area and Rule have been deselected:

You can see how adding another area can adjust the Alarms by Time graph:

Topology

Topology Panel: This displays the configuration settings for the selected item within the Topology view i.e. Track Engine, Radar etc.

Unassigned Items Panel: This displays any radar or cameras (on the Camera Topology tab) that have not been assigned to Track Engines or Camera Controllers respectively.

Track Engine: These are all the available Track Engines and Camera Controllers configured in the system. The status is displayed for each module, including all the radar and cameras that they are hosting. Their settings can be changed here by selecting them and editing their configuration in the Topology Panel.

Management Server Panel: This panel shows the primary and secondary Management Servers. A secondary server will only be displayed if resilience is being used and a secondary server has been setup and commissioned.

Management Server: These represent each Management Server. The status of the server is displayed along with the status of the system database. Their settings can be changed here by selecting them and editing their configuration in the Topology Panel.

Track Engine Panel: This panel displayed all the available Track Engines and Camera Controllers on their respective tabs.

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