Review the following notes before creating EDI projects:
· This optional feature requires an Identiv license. The EDI menu appears only after the license is installed on the ICPAM server. See Obtaining and Installing Optional Feature Licenses for instructions.
· The source database records are the master version: imported records cannot be deleted in ICPAM.Test a few personnel records in a staging environment before implementing EDI projects.
· Importing a large number of personnel records can cause system delays. To avoid system interruption, perform the initial import during off-peak hours, and stop the Gateway Driver to enable the process to complete. To stop the driver, select Hardware - Tree from the Doors menu, right-click on the Access GW Driver, and select Disable. When the import is complete, select Enable. This process is only necessary when importing thousands of records, such as during the initial import of all database records.
· Personnel records are unique, based on the ID number of the record. If a record is imported with the same ID number, then the current record is overwritten with the new data.
· EDI Active Directory (AD) projects run immediately when the camera driver is restarted, or when ICPAM is synchronized with the Video Surveillance Manager (VSM). The projects’ scheduled run time are also reset.
For example, if an AD project is scheduled to run at 5 pm daily, and the camera driver is restarted at 10 am, the EDI project will run and the schedule will be reset to 10 am. To avoid this, stop the EDI project before restarting the camera driver or synchronizing the Identiv VSM server. Restart the EDI project after the actions are complete. For more information, see Summary of EDI Administration Functions and Managing the Camera Inventory.
· Stop any running EDI projects before upgrading the ICPAM appliance software. After the upgrade, you can restart the projects. See Importing and Starting EDI Projects for instructions to stop, start and import EDI projects. If EDI projects are not stopped before a ICPAM upgrade, the project execution (or run) will not be successful. If this occurs, contact your Identiv support representative for assistance.
Note If upgrading from CPAM Release 1.0 or Release 1.1, you must also recreate the EDI projects using the EDI Studio application.
· Only personnel photos in the .JPEG or .JPG format are supported for import. In addition, the photos must be in RGB format. Other image formats are ignored when importing personnel data.
· For importing EDI personnel data from Active Directory, users should not make major modifications to the AD schema and the User object should contain the field name when changed.
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