Administration

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Overview

The Administration section of BluSKY is where a user will find the most common administrative tools needed on a daily basis. From the Administration menu, users will be able to perform common tasks, such as adding new People, adjusting Access Levels and adding Vendors. The available options are determined by the user's permissions that have been set through their Role.

Access Levels
Access Levels are a simple way of granting access to individuals. An Access Level is a list of "access rights". An access right is a "securitypoint" + a Schedule combination. Portals (doors or turnstiles) or Floor Stops are considered security points. An access right might be "Main Entrance / 24x7" or "Floor-3 / 6a-to-7p: Access Levels act as a shorthand way of assigning several access rights to people. Also, when, one is edited, everybody to whom it was granted is immediately updated.
Access Level Groups
Access Level Groups allow a user to take existing Access Levels (which contain one-or-more Readers, and/or one-or-more Floor Stops, along with a schedule)and combine them together for a simplified assignment process. These can be particularly useful where one person might not manage each of the component Access Levels, ex. Building Manager manages the Building Access Level, the Occupant Admin Manages the Occupant Access Level, but the Occupant assignes one Access Level Group that combines both.
Delegate Points
An Administrator can delegate points to another Occupancy or Vendor Company. Delegated points appear in the list of points that an Administrator of the receiving Occupancy or Vendor Company can add to a person's access rights or to Access Levels. For instance, in a multi-tenant office building, the Property Manager can delegate public access points such as the main entrance or the turnstiles to Occupancy Administrators and, in turn, they can assign these points to their employees.
Distribution Lists
Distribution Lists are collections of contacts. They provide a wide array of option for quickly selecting people by System, Facility, Permission and more. This helps tailor list to reach only the intended audience. For example, if you frequently send messages to the maintenance team, you can create a distribution list, called "Maintenance Team" that contains the contact information of everyone on that team.
Holidays
Special days of the year may interfere with normal business operations. Holidays provide an easy way to control the access control system when you or your employees are enjoying a day off with friends and family.
Notifications
Notifications are templates for auto generated messages from BluSKY. The Notification itself has build in fields to provide relevant information for the message and also has a different methods of delivery.
Occupancy
This is an instance of a company that resides within a Facility that is controlled by a BluSKY system. An Occupancy will always belongs to an access control system because they are physically located within the facility. Occupancies never have a physical address that is different from the access control system's physical address
People
People are the ones that utilize the access control system on a regular basis. One of the most powerful features of BluSKY is its ability to manage and control the various aspects of any Person in the system.
Roles
Roles are a collection of permissions that can be granted to one or more Person. Roles are predominately used to define a Person ability to control the system through BluSKY.
Rules
With RULES, users can instruct the system to automatically create specific responses to certain events. A "Simple Rule" is one that states that a specific door being forced must cause an email to be sent to somebody and/or a siren to go off. Simple Rules can be combined with additional criteria to create "Complex Rules". Such a rule might state that an e-mail must be sent to certain people if a card is rejected 3 times in 2 minutes at a certain set of readers and at certain times-of-day.
Schedules
Schedules are a collection of time intervals used to control Portals or Floor Stops. Schedules provide an easily managed mechanism to manage the access control system based off timing needs.
Vendors
Vendors are organizations that need access to an access control system to provide goods or services to the Occupants of that system. After you set up a Vendor you can create new people associated with the Vendor and have the Vendor company manage their own personnel and access rights.
Vendor Services
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Vendor Services indicate which services a Vendor is allowed to perform in a Facility. This feature can be used to make administering Vendors easier and helps provide a safe and secure working environment.
- Create a Vendor Service
- Vendor Management - Quick Start
Watchlist
A Watchlist is a list of people that are banned from the Facility. The list is maintained by the Occupants and when a Visitor Request is made that has the same name as someone on the list a warning is presented to the person.