Add Alarm Input to Area

Add Alarm Input to Area

You can add alarm inputs to areas for the current site for management.

Devices should to be added to the HikCentral Professional for area management beforehand. Refer to Manage Resource for detailed configuration about adding devices.

Perform this task when you need to add current site's alarm inputs to areas.

Note:

Alarm input can only belong to one area. You cannot add an alarm input to multiple areas.

  1. Click Logical View on the Home page to enter the Area Management page.
  2. Select an area for adding alarm inputs to.
    Note:

    • For a Central System with a Remote Site Management module, you can select the current site from the drop-down site list to show its areas.

    • The icon indicates that the site is current site.

  3. Select the Alarm Inputs tab.
  4. Click Add to enter the Add Alarm Inputs page.
  5. Select the device type.
  6. Select the alarm inputs to add.
    Note:

    For the security control device, you need to select its zones as alarm inputs to add to the area.

  7. Optional: Check Add to Map to add the alarm input to the map.
  8. Click Add.
  9. Optional: After adding the alarm inputs, you can do one or more of the followings.
    Option Description

    Move to Other Area

    Select the alarm inputs and click Move to Other Area. Then select the target area to move the selected alarm inputs to and click Move.

    Display Alarm Inputs of Child Areas

    Check Include Sub-area to display the alarm inputs of child areas.

    View Alarm Input Status

    In the Status column, the alarm input's online status, arming status, bypass status, alarm status, fault status, and detector connection status are displayed.

    • Online Status: indicates alarm input online; indicates alarm input offline.

    • Arming Status: indicates alarm input armed; indicates alarm input disarmed.

    • Bypass Status: indicates alarm input bypassed; indicates bypass restored.

    • Fault Status: indicates alarm input exception.

    • Alarm Status: indicates that the alarm input is alarming.

    • Detector Connection Status: indicates alarm input not enrolled or offline; indicates detector online.

    • Battery Status: indicates normal alarm input's battery status; indicates abnormal alarm input's battery status.

    Bypass/Restore Bypass Alarm Input

    When an exception of alarm input occurs, and other alarm inputs can work normally, click to bypass the abnormal alarm input, otherwise, you cannot arm the security control partition which the alarm input belongs to. When a bypassed alarm input works normally, click to restore bypass.

Add Alarm Input to Area

You can add alarm inputs to areas for the current site for management.

Devices should to be added to the HikCentral Professional for area management beforehand. Refer to Manage Resource for detailed configuration about adding devices.

Perform this task when you need to add current site's alarm inputs to areas.

Note:

Alarm input can only belong to one area. You cannot add an alarm input to multiple areas.

  1. Click Logical View on the Home page to enter the Area Management page.
  2. Select an area for adding alarm inputs to.
    Note:

    • For a Central System with a Remote Site Management module, you can select the current site from the drop-down site list to show its areas.

    • The icon indicates that the site is current site.

  3. Select the Alarm Inputs tab.
  4. Click Add to enter the Add Alarm Inputs page.
  5. Select the device type.
  6. Select the alarm inputs to add.
    Note:

    For the security control device, you need to select its zones as alarm inputs to add to the area.

  7. Optional: Check Add to Map to add the alarm input to the map.
  8. Click Add.
  9. Optional: After adding the alarm inputs, you can do one or more of the followings.
    Option Description

    Move to Other Area

    Select the alarm inputs and click Move to Other Area. Then select the target area to move the selected alarm inputs to and click Move.

    Display Alarm Inputs of Child Areas

    Check Include Sub-area to display the alarm inputs of child areas.

    View Alarm Input Status

    In the Status column, the alarm input's online status, arming status, bypass status, alarm status, fault status, and detector connection status are displayed.

    • Online Status: indicates alarm input online; indicates alarm input offline.

    • Arming Status: indicates alarm input armed; indicates alarm input disarmed.

    • Bypass Status: indicates alarm input bypassed; indicates bypass restored.

    • Fault Status: indicates alarm input exception.

    • Alarm Status: indicates that the alarm input is alarming.

    • Detector Connection Status: indicates alarm input not enrolled or offline; indicates detector online.

    • Battery Status: indicates normal alarm input's battery status; indicates abnormal alarm input's battery status.

    Bypass/Restore Bypass Alarm Input

    When an exception of alarm input occurs, and other alarm inputs can work normally, click to bypass the abnormal alarm input, otherwise, you cannot arm the security control partition which the alarm input belongs to. When a bypassed alarm input works normally, click to restore bypass.