Skyros Corporation continues to develop the functionality of the VideoNet PSIM security platform and is pleased to announce a new release - VideoNet 9.1 SP8! This release includes several new and important features that will help ensure the security of your facilities even more effectively and expand the capabilities and scope of VideoNet-based solutions.
Dear partners and users!
Skyros Corporation continues to develop the functionality of the VideoNet PSIM security platform and is pleased to announce a new release - VideoNet 9.1 SP8! This release includes several new and important features that will help ensure the security of your facilities even more effectively and expand the capabilities and scope of VideoNet-based solutions.
Interaction of external systems with the VideoNet ACS database via REST API
One of the key new features is the ability to integrate VideoNet 9.1 SP8 with your existing enterprise management system. Exchange data and manage access of visitors, employees, and contractors to the facility using VideoNet and the new REST API!
In the VideoNet 9.1 SP8 version, support was added for a new module for ACS database editing via REST API, which allows external systems to change the list of access objects, such as people and cars, and assign access groups to them in the access control and management system database.
REST API ACS DB editing module allows you to perform the following requests:
- Adding and deleting departments, positions, people and cars;
- Obtaining lists of access groups, keys, departments, positions, people and cars;
- Receiving photographs associated with specific people (in particular, to compare them with real faces when passing through a checkpoint);
- Changing the parameters of people and cars;
- Assigning and revoking access rights for people and cars;
- Issuance and cancellation of keys for people and cars;
- Blocking and unblocking access for people.
Thus, the use of REST API ACS DB editing module in VideoNet ACS provides ample opportunities for interaction with external systems, for example, with 1C software products. This will take the convenience of data administration in the access control system to a new level!
To work with the REST API ACS DB editing module, the VideoNet computer must have a license “REST API ACS DB editing module” (SM-ACS-API) and a license “Basic ACS license” (VN-ACS).
Requesting messages from VideoNet ACS event logs via REST API
VideoNet version 9.1 SP8 introduces a new feature - a module for requesting data on ACS log events, which allows external systems to receive information about object access events stored in the VideoNet system log. The computer to which the module for requesting events via the REST API is connected sends data about the requested ACS log events in response to a request made using the GET method.
This means that you will be able to receive access events for the required period from VideoNet to your existing system via REST API. This will allow you to more flexibly and effectively manage security events and take the necessary actions in real time. One of the possible examples of using this module is the integration of VideoNet with the 1C program to create reports on employee access during working hours.
Module for requesting events via the REST API provides the following types of messages for a specified period:
- Access granted/denied;
- Entry/exit/passage (by foot or by car);
- Unknown key/licence plate/face/code;
- Possible misuse of the key;
- Entry/exit/ passage by emergency unlocking and others.
To work with the module for requesting events via the REST API, the VideoNet computer must have a “REST API event request module” (SM-LOG-API) license and any basic “Video”, “ACS” or “FIAS” license (VN-VMS, VN-ACS, VN-FIAS).
Also in the new version of VideoNet 9.1 SP8, users have access to a basic module for transmitting events via REST API (BASE REST API), which provides online sending of messages about VideoNet system events, logged in the ACS log, to external systems for their subsequent processing. The computer to which the BASE REST API is connected sends a message about each event logged in the ACS log to the address specified in the settings at the time the event occurs using the POST method.
BASE REST API provides sending of the following messages:
- Access granted/denied;
- Entry/exit/passage (by foot or by car);
- Unknown key/licence plate/face/code;
- Possible misuse of the key;
- Entry/exit/passage by emergency unlocking and others.
To work with the BASE REST API module, the VideoNet computer must have a “REST API event transmission module” (SM-EventAPI) license and any basic “Video”, “ACS” or “FIAS” license (VN-VMS, VN-ACS, VN-FIAS).
Viewing access messages in the ACS log
In the new version of the VideoNet 9.1 SP8 system in the “Surveillance” environment, the “ACS Log” is implemented, designed to display messages related to object access events (for example, entry, exit, etc.). It is possible to configure the events storage time in the ACS log database; this is done on the new “Logs” page in the “Configuration” environment.
The ACS log allows you to filter event messages by any of their properties, in particular by date and time, categories (for example, “Access permissions”, “Unknown identifiers”, “Passages”, etc.), message types and source types.
In the new release of VideoNet 9.1 SP8, viewing and filtering of messages about ACS events is carried out in a separate log, this simplifies the process of searching and analyzing information for users as much as possible.
You can ask our engineers a question, get advice and recommendations on setting up the system and connecting equipment.
