Security Access Codes - ADEMCO VISTA-120 Installation And Setup Manual

This section provides the following information:
General
Information
User Codes &
Levels Of Authority
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SECTION 26

Security Access Codes

• General information about security access codes
• Definition of user authority levels
• How to add a user access code
• How to change a user access code
• How to delete a user access code
This system allows a total of 150 security access codes to be allocated, each
identified by a user ID number.
Note that regardless of the number of partitions each code has access to,
it occupies only one user slot in the system. If a particular code is not
used in all partitions, that user ID number cannot be used again.
The Quick Arm feature can also be programmed (partition-specific programme
field *29), which allows the [#] key to be pressed instead of entering the security
code when arming the system. The security code must always be entered to
disarm the system.
1. User #2 must be programmed for the Quick Arm feature to function.
2. In order to protect the system from attempts to defeat the security access code by
trying many possible codes in sequence, the system has code tampering protection.
If someone enters 20 keystrokes at a keypad within a 15 minute period, all further
keypad entries from keypads in this partition will be ignored for the 15 minute period.
This protection will then be repeated indefinitely.
Each user of the system can be assigned a level of authority (tells system what
system functions that user is authorized to do), and can have different levels of
authority within different partitions. In general, users can perform most system
functions, including Test and Chime modes, but certain authority levels restrict
disarming, bypassing or the assigning of other user codes. These restrictions are
noted in the descriptions below.
Use the "View Capabilities" keypad function to view the partitions and authority
levels for which a particular user is authorized. In highest to lowest ranking, these
levels are described below.
Auth
Title
0 Installer
1 Master
2 Manager
3 Operator level A
4 Operator level B
5 Operator level C
6 Duress