Generating a Gateway Driver System Sanity Report

System sanity reports provide information about potential system inconsistencies. For example, it includes a summary of doors that are administratively Down, devices and doors that are disabled, and other information. Sanity reports can be viewed online, or saved to your computer in a variety of formats.

This figure  shows a sample report.

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Tip          You can also configure automated rules to automatically generate and send system sanity reports. Complete the instructions in Configuring Global I/O Automated Rules and select Sanity Report Action in the Actions field.

Sanity reports include the following topics:

             Doors that are administratively Down.

             Devices and doors that are disabled.

             Door templates that are not used in the system.

             Device templates that are not used in the system.

             Controllers with pending configuration changes.

             Doors not associated with any access policy.

             Doors set up with default mode Open.

             Door schedules that are not used.

             Door groups not associated with any access policy.

             Schedules that are not used.

             Workweeks, holidays, time entry collections, or time ranges that are not used.

             Access policies that are not assigned to any badge.

             Badges that are not associated with any credential template.

             Badges that are temporarily de-activated, inactive, or expired.

             Badges that are added or changed since the most recent download.

             Badges that are not assigned to any personnel record.

             Cameras that are offline.

             Controllers that are offline.

             Controllers that are set to a different time zone from the ICPAM.

Procedure

To view and save system sanity reports, do the following:

Step 1            Select Hardware Tree from the Doors menu.

Step 2            Right-click the Access GW Driver and select Run System Sanity Report.

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Step 3            In the Sanity Report window, expand the menu for a topic.

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The topic Door groups not associated with any access policy is expanded to show that the Lobby Door Group is not associated with any access policy.

Note     If a topic does not display any information when expanded, then no criteria meets that condition.

Step 4            (Optional) Open the sanity report in a separate window, or save it to your computer.

a.  Click the Report button.

b. In the Report Generation window, select the Format for the report.

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c.  Select the report output.

            Open in report

            Save as document

            Open as document

d. Select the document format from the drop-down menu (only if you chose to save or open the report as a document). For example: PDF.

e.  Click OK.

f.  If saving the report to a file, enter a file name, select the file location, and click Save.

Note   A sample sanity report is shown above this procedure.

 

See also:

Understanding Controller and Door Configurations