Setting Up Sites, Overview; What A Site Is; Before You Enable A Site - Schlage PIB300 User Manual

Setting Up Sites, Overview

What a Site Is

Before You
Enable a Site
In HandNet, a site refers to a group of up to thirty-two connected readers. Put
another way, one reader is physically connected to the computer (by network,
serial cable, or modem), and up to thirty-one additional readers can be daisy
chained to that first reader; that is, a cable runs from the first reader to the
second, another cable runs from the second to the third, and so on. We call
this chain of readers a site. A site does not have any connection to a particular
building or location; these readers could be in one building or in more than one
building (if the buildings are close enough to run a cable from one to the other),
and one building could have one or many sites.
You control access to each reader separately, so having readers with unrelated
purposes in one site is fine; the site designation merely indicates that the
readers are physically connected to each other.
There are two parts to setting up a site and readers: you must physically set the
readers up and connect them to each other and to the computer, and you must
add the site and readers in HandNet. This help only explains adding the site in
HandNet. For help setting up and connecting the readers, see the manual that
came with the readers.
If you have been using readers without HandNet and you want to get the users
from the reader(s), follow these steps BEFORE enabling the site and reader:
1. Pick Settings from the View menu.
2. Click the Security tab.
3. Check the box by Do not delete unauthorized enrollments (see page 23
for more about what this option does; after you have gotten your users
from the reader, you may want to check this box again).
If you enable both the site and the reader without changing this setting,
HandNet regards all of the users in the reader as unauthorized (because they
are not in HandNet yet) and deletes them from the reader. Once it deletes them,
there is no way to get them back without adding and enrolling the users again.
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