Federation Setting up a Security Center Federation™ To set up a Security Center Federation”, you must create a Security Center Federation” role, connect to the remote Security Center system, and decide which events you want to federate. To set up a Security Center Federation”: 1 Open the system task, and cick the Roles view. 2 Glick Add an entity (4, and click Security Center Federation”. 3. Inthe Directory field enter the name ofthe remote Security Center Directory 4. In the next wo fields, enter the username and password thatthe Federation” rleis going to use to log con to the remote Security Center system, and click Next. The rights and privileges ofthat user determine what your local users wll be able to see and do on the federated system. 5. Inthe Basic information page, enter a name and description forthe role Selecta Partition ths role is a member of, and click Next. All federated entities are created in the partition you select. Only users that are part of the partition can view or modify those entities. 7 Click Next> Create > close. The new Federation” role (pis created. 8 Ifyou plan to host more than 100 Security Center Federation” roles onthe same server, you need to assign a diferent role group to every 100 roles you create 9 Click the Properties tab The connection status should say Synchronizing entities, or Connected. 10 Decide what happens ifthe connection between the Security Center Federation” role and the federated Security Center Directory is interrupted, by configuring the following options + Resilient connection: When this option is turned on, ifthe connection between the Federation” role and the federated Security Center Directory server is temporarily interrupted, te Federation™ role attempts to reconnect to the remote Directory fora set amount of time Before the connection is Considered lost and the role goes into a warning state + Reconnection timeout: Specify the number of seconds thatthe Federation” role must attempt to reconnect tothe remote Directory before the connection is considered lost. 11 From the Default live stream drop-down list, select the default video stream used for viewing live video from federated Security Center cameras (default=Remote). Ifyou know that a workstation does not need to follow the default settings of the Federation” role, you can change its configuration to use the default settings of Security Desk instead. 12 To disable users from viewing playback video from federated cameras, switch the Enable playback requests option to OFF. 13 If you do not want to receive alarms from the federated system, then switch the Federate alarms option 10 OFF, 14 In the Federated events section, select the events that you want to receive from the federated system, and click Apply. Events are necessary if you plan to monitor the federated entities in Security Desk, or to configure event tovactions for the federated entities, 15 Open the Area view task. 16 Expand the new Security Center Federation” role () in the area view, and make sure all the federated entities were imported by the role. The entity hierarchy corresponds to the area view on the federated remote system. Related Topics Requirements for large Federation systems on page 223, Using default Security Desk settings to view federated cameras on page 222 techdocs.genetec.com | Security Center Administrator Guide 5.7 EN.500.003-V5.7.C5(3) | Last updated: April 3, 2018 219