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Table of Contents
1 Introduction
2 SAFR Camera Configuration
3 Digital Video Recording (DVR) Settings
4 Camera Settings
5 Image Settings
6 SAFR Server System Settings
7 Troubleshooting

6 SAFR Server System Settings

This section describes settings that are specific to SAFR Camera when connected to SAFR Server. These settings are configured on SAFR Server only when connected to SAFR Camera. System Settings can be set from either SAFR Desktop or SAFR Server Web Console. This section describes those settings for SAFR Server Web Console. Settings in SAFR Desktop are similar but accessed from a different location.

6.1 ACCESSING SAFR WEB CONSOLE

To access SAFR Web Console, open a browser and connect to http://IPADDRESS:8090 if using SAFR On Premises server or http://safr.real.com/console if using SAFR Cloud.

6.2 Open SAFR Camera System Settings

  1. Connect SAFR Camera to SAFR Server or SAFR Cloud as described above.
  2. Open SAFR Web Console as described above.
  3. Go to Video Feeds and locate the newly added SAFR Camera
    1. You can use Camera Name to identify your camera as shown below:
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  4. Click “Config” for the SAFR Camera
  5. Go to System page. You will see the following:
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The following table describes settings on the System page.

Setting

Description

Identity Sync – Sync Direction

Controls how person identities are synchronized between SAFR Camera and SAFR Server. Options are:

  • Bidirectional (default) – Faces added or updated on Camera are pushed to SAFR Server and vice versa.
  • Only from server down to processor – Only faces added or updated on Server are pushed to camera. Any changes made on camera are not pushed back to server.

Identify Sync – Persist face images

Determines if faces images are sent to camera.

  • Enabled - Faces images on server are copied to SAFR Camera long with biometric signature and other data associated with person. This is useful if the SAFR Camera Web Console will be used frequently. It may be most useful during initial setup and troubleshooting.
  • Disabled (default) - Only the biometric signature and person metadata is sent to the camera during sync. Face images are not transferred to the camera. This option is provided to enhance privacy by restricting transmission of data that is not required..

Limit sync to identifies with access clearance for the processor

This option limits which faces are loaded on SAFR Camera based on the Access Clearance assigned to a person. This option is most applicable to SAFR Access Control. SAFR Camera can be assigned one or more zones and each access clearance is assigned one or more zones. Person records are assigned one and only one Access Clearance. If the Access Clearance a person belongs to contains the zone in which SAFR Camera belongs, the face is loaded onto that camera.

Limit sync to identifies with zones for the processor

This option limits which faces are loaded on SAFR Camera based on the Zones assigned to a person. This option is most applicable to SAFR Camera. SAFR Camera can be assigned one or more zones and each person record can be assigned one or more zones. If the Zone a person belongs to contains a Zone in which SAFR Camera belongs, the face is loaded onto that camera.

Persist person records on disk

This option is provided to enhance privacy and security. When enabled, person records are loaded at the time the camera boots. Person records are only stored in volatile memory. If the camera loses power for any reason, person records are lost. This prevents person data from being compromised in the event the camera is stolen.

Note: SAFR data is encrypted on disk. So even if this option is not enabled for multiple reasons (device contains a secure boot partition and the disk is not available and the data is encrypted with AES 256 cipher encryption keys.

Allow direct access through Processor Console

This option is provided to enhance security. When enabled, access to the SAFR Camera Web Console is not available and device can only be managed from SAFR Server.

Note: A factory reset can be used to regain access to the device in the event the device cannot be connected to SAFR Server. A factory reset results in all personal data being purged from the device.