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System Administrator’s Guide
Document K14392V1 Rev A 195
07/07
A Multi-Media Alarm Station
Flexibility in security
Like most Multi-Media security features, use of an alarm station is optional.
Purpose
An alarm station is a PC that is designated to receive alarms first, from one or more Multi-Media
units. View software needs to run on PCs designated as alarm stations. Their setup is discussed in
Multi-Media Alarm Stations, on p. 201. In setting up an alarm station, you might need to obtain
some point-to-point connectivity information.
Fig. 10–18. A Multi-Media Unit Can Be Set to Send Alarms to Specific PCs.
Alarm Notification: Response Priority
After making an alarm station operational (see Making an Alarm Station Operational on p. 218),
notification of an event’s occurrence can be:
• Immediate. When either: (a) Multi-Media units are networked to an alarm station, or (b) by
happenstance, you are running an alarm session at the site when and where the alarm occurs,
or (c) your PC is setup for Live-alarm sessions and you happen to be connected to the site
where the alarm is triggered.
• Within the minute. Your Multi Administrator has set a dial-up Multi-Media unit to “call” an alarm
station running View, as soon as possible after an alarm. Should the alarm station be
unavailable, an attempt to call it back is made every minute until a connection to the alarm
station is established.
• Deferred. When a Multi-Media unit is not assigned to call an alarm station, the unit “holds”
alarms until you start an alarm session for the site. If deferral meets your organization’s needs,
logging the events rather than having them trigger alarms could be a good strategy, too.
• Indirect. A FAULT-RELAY on a Multi-Media unit can warn a Multi SA or Multi alarm-station
through an alarm-panel. See
System Monitor on p. 134.