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Duress A Duress alarm is an alarm event triggered when the cardholder signals he/she is in an
emergency (duress) situation. This can happen when the cardholder presses on an exit bar
or button of a door to open it (instead of using a normal card swipe or keypad) OR signals a
duress with a coded PIN, as described in the “Setup – Site Settings” section of this manual.
There are two types of duress situations:
• Duress Exit from an Area 
A Duress exit occurs when the cardholder must exit an area quickly, such as during a
fire or emergency. If the door is locked, this is normally done by pressing an exit bar or
button to unlock the door. If the door is unlocked, it does not matter.
• Duress Entrance into an Area 
This is an abnormal situation, since the cardholder can swipe the card to enter the
area, provided the cardholder is allowed to enter that security area. You can allow a
duress entrance to handle situations when the cardholder is being forced to use the
card under threat of bodily harm, such as during a robbery. If you allow the cardholder
to enter a special PIN number to gain entrance, this opens the door AND signal to the
security staff that a duress entrance exists. The security staff can investigate and/or
call the police, without the threatening person being aware of it. This protects the
cardholder from bodily harm.
This type of duress can be set in the Setup – Site Settings.
Duress Video Switcher
Alarm For either type of duress, you can set an alarm that turns on a video camera. You can set
this under Hardware – Reader – Options.
Event Any activity that is detectable, reportable, and recorded on the Topaz system.
Event Class A classification of activities for the purposes of executing Automatic Actions at the Server
level. Alarm and Access Events are each divided into four predefined classes:
• Class 1 Events (New Alarm)
• Class 2 Events (Canceled Alarm)
• Class 3 Events (New Trouble)
• Class 4 Events (Canceled Trouble)
Each event can be configured to one of four numbered Event Classes (1 - 4). These
Classes do not have a predefined “meaning.” Meaning is assigned to the Event Classes
based on usage. Event classes default to a nonexistent zero (0) class unless defined.
Fail Safe Lock A door strike device that needs power to lock the door. See “Door strike”.
Fail Secure Lock A door strike device that needs power to unlock the door. See “Door strike”.
Facility Code The Facility Code is the number assigned to each of your company's facility/site locations.
This allows you to limit/allow access to company locations independently.
Frame A separate window of the main browser window that holds information that does not
change unless directly selected.
Global Pertaining to activities that can propagate across SCP boundaries, and affect the entire
site. Global operations are managed only when field panels are in communication with the
Server.
Host PC See “Server”.
Instruction Messages A defined string of text attached to certain system Events intended to give instructions to
you when those Events occur. Commonly used with Alarm Points, messages are also
assigned to Automatic Remote Control structures and other items.
Table 21. Topaz terms explained (continued)
Term Definition