System Administration

Question When implementing Use or Lose, when do those changes take effect?   Answer Use or Lose activates at 3:00 AM in the timezone to which your system is set. Applies To OnGuard (All versions)   Additi...

Symptom When the Do Not Activate Strike on REX option is enabled, the Alarm Shunt feature does not work.   Resolution This is normal behavior. The shunt relay only works if the strike actually fires.   The shunt i...

Question Where do you disable the ability for a user to give an "Allow 1 free APB pass" in Alarm Monitoring?   Answer The ability for an OnGuard user to give an "Allow 1 free APB pass" in Alarm Monitoring is...

Symptom When attempting to capture a cardholder photo, the following message appears:   An error occurred while attempting to automatically crop the cardholder image. Failed to process image. Failed to create FaceFind Component. Reso...

Managing Generic Event alarms Procedure Steps Events that come into OnGuard from a third party, OAAP device, or other service might come in as type “Generic Event”.  These examples indicate how to provide different treatments of ...

Symptom "There are no custom alarms that can be assigned to the new device" popup in System Administration when adding hardware device, and then logging in as non-SA user.   Resolution In System Administration, disabl...

Symptom Unable to add an account number to an area for an NGP panel. The Account Number field is grayed out.   Resolution The area account number can only be used on areas that are not DEFAULT AREAS. So only areas added abov...

Question How do I setup scheduled area arming and disarming on NGP?   Answer In areas for the NGP panel, you need to enter a timezone in the Schedule field. This timezone is configured in Timezones. The start time is ...

Question When do you have to use the # symbol after entering the PIN?    Answer You have to use the # symbol if the number of digits used for a PIN is less than the maximum allowed. For example, if you use the setting for...

Question How do you create a zone with letters and numbers for Osborne-Hoffman OH-2000?   Answer When non-numeric characters are received, OnGuard assumes they are hex characters and process them in that way. OnGuard ...