RC-E User Manual
OnSSI Federated Architecture
Federated Sites Example Scenario—Limestone City
The following is an example of how several RC-E systems can be integrated into a federated architecture-in this case
in a
City Surveillance
scenario.
Many surveillance integrators want to integrate several independent surveillance entities into a large scale system,
where each site can still be used and managed locally and users and administrators can be given access to the entire
large scale installation.
In this example, several governmental and business installations must be tied together in a large scale system
offering the different entities local access and management of the system, as well as governmental (police etc.)
access in case of crimes and emergencies.
All entities must be connected to the city's video surveillance so that City Hall officials and police officers can access
video from their business or residential area to monitor live video or investigate recorded video in case of break-ins,
thefts, vandalism, emergencies, terror etc.
In addition to being connected to the city's video surveillance, A.C.M.E Industries Inc, Downtown Residential and
Limestone Center Shopping Mall also want to segment their installation in several sites as they have several physical
locations that they want to monitor. The segmented architecture offers them greater flexibility during installation and
daily usage.
The city uses federated architecture, allowing the entities independent video surveillance while being tied into the city
wide surveillance system at the same time.
Because the police have installations that City Hall should not have access to, the Police Headquarters is selected as
the top-site in the city's federated surveillance hierarchy.
Each site is then tied into Limestone city's federated hierarchy as follows:
Level 1:
Police Headquarters.
o
Level 2:
Limestone City.
Level 3:
City Hall and
MB Industries as one group.
o
Level 4:C
entral Station, Streets & Intersections and Parks as one group under City Hall.
Level 3:
Limestone Center Shopping, Downtown Residential, Limestone Transportation Ltd and
A.C.M.E Industries Inc. as one group.
o
Level 4:
Shops, Branch Malls and Residential area shops as one group under Limestone Center
Shopping.
o
Level 4:
Branch Office 1 and Branch Office 2 as one group under A.C.M.E Industries Inc.
Manage OnSSI Federated Architecture
For conceptual details on OnSSI Federated Architecture, see OnSSI Federated Architecture Overview (on page 173).
The RC-E Management Client has a Federated Sites Hierarchy pane (see "Panes Overview" on page 36) dedicated
to displaying federated sites and their parent/child links. From the
View
Menu (see "Management Client Menu
Overview" on page 40), you can show or hide the
Federated Sites Hierarchy
pane. The pane is located on the left
side of the Management Client window, under the
Site Navigation
pane.
The parent server you are logged in to (your home-site), is always at the top of the site hierarchy. You can view all its
linked children and downwards through the parent/child hierarchy. Settings and configurations of your home-site is
always reflected in the
Overview
and
Properties
panes and its site-name visible at the top of the
Site Navigation
pane.
To connect to another site in the hierarchy (see "Connecting to Another Site in the Hierarchy" on page 180), click the
wanted site in the
Federated Sites Hierarchy
pane.
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