Agent of Control, as well as Server of Control, can operate in distributed architecture of the digital video surveillance system. In this case both Server of Control and Agent of Control shall be configured locally, not remotely. Agents of Control can view each other in the distributed configuration but cannot change each other's settings. Agents of Control cannot view Servers of Control.

Every time Agent of Control is started, it checks for a Backup folder at the root of the disk on which Intellect is installed. If this folder is missing, Agent of Control creates it. Do not delete this folder.

 To create an Agent of Control object in the device tree:

  1. In the System settings window, go to the Hardware tab (1).
  2. Create an IIDK interface object based on a Computer object (2). The ID of the IIDK interface object should be larger than 100 (3).
  3. Create an Agent of Control object based on a Computer object.
  4. After an Agent of Control object is created in the right part of the System settings window, a panel appears for configuring the object.
  5. In the IIDK Interface No. field, enter the object ID for the IIDK interface created in step 2.
  6. Create one or more child Partition Of Control objects based on the Agent of Control object.
  7. After the Partition Of Control object is created in the right part of the System settings window, a panel appears for configuring the object.

It is also necessary to create Video capture device, Camera, and Sensor objects in the device tree that correspond to the connected hardware. Creation and configuration of these objects is described in the document Intellect Software Package: Guide to Installation and Configuration of Security System Components.

Creation of the necessary objects in the device tree is now complete.