Administrator's Guide. Introduction

Purpose and structure of the guide

Administrator's Guide is a reference and information guide intended for system administrators, installation and configuration specialists, and users with administrative rights to digital video surveillance and audio monitoring systems created on the basis of Axxon PSIM.

This guide contains the following materials:

1. General characteristics of Axxon PSIM.
2. Hardware and software requirements for digital video surveillance and audio monitoring systems.
3. Installation and configuration procedure for digital video surveillance and audio monitoring system components.
4. Description of the administration interface.
5. Description of administration functions and their use cases.
6. Recommendations for setting up and operating digital video surveillance and audio monitoring systems.
7. Appendices containing additional (extended) information about the components of Axxon PSIM and digital video surveillance and audio monitoring systems.

Purpose of Axxon PSIM

Axxon PSIM is designed to create industrial, scalable, flexible, and adaptable integrated security systems based on digital video surveillance and audio monitoring systems.

Axxon PSIM has the following basic features:

1. Integration of digital video surveillance and audio monitoring systems with the existing data systems, various security equipment, and auxiliary software from third-party developers using integrated open interfaces of the data exchange.
2. Compatibility with diverse security devices and data systems, in particular, with the fire and security alarm and access control systems, video surveillance cameras, data analysis systems, and systems for recognition of objects (events) and identification by their images.
3. Single-source registration and processing of events, generation of notifications and controlling response in compliance with the flexibly modified logics.
4. Ultimately unlimited capabilities for scaling, solution-specific adjustments, and redistribution of resources with changes in the number or quality of tasks in monitoring protected facilities and operating various equipment.

Recommendations for using Axxon PSIM

We recommend using Axxon PSIM as a basic software environment for industrial distributed integrated security systems and automated control systems at large, multifaceted facilities with a large number of monitored positions and a wide range of monitored parameters.

Licensing of Axxon PSIM

Licensing of Axxon PSIM is implemented through hardware and software protection.

Axxon PSIM software protection is built on one of the following components:

1. dallas codes of the cryptochips of video capture cards;
2. dallas codes of the Guardant or MatrixLock electronic keys of hardware security;
3. codes of HID devices (hardware id).

The software component of the security system includes an activation key that links the security hardware with the software modules. The list of available software modules depends on the security system's configuration and is specified in the activation key.

When you expand the system configuration (for example, when you install a new functional subsystem), in order to activate the functions of the software module corresponding to the subsystem being installed, you must replace the previous activation key with a new one that will regulate the updated functional capabilities of the system.

When you use a distributed architecture, a single activation key is used for all computers in the system.