User`s guide
ii  Guardall Director V4.74 User's Guide  21-0381E v4.7.4 
Area Users (Activity, User Count, and APB-Reset)....................................................... 82 
Checking User In/Out Status ..................................................................................................... 84 
Checking Status or Controlling Individual Doors
........................................................................ 85 
Checking Status or Controlling Elevators
.................................................................................. 87 
Checking Status or Controlling Floors
....................................................................................... 90 
Checking Status or B
ypassing Input Points (Sensors)............................................................... 91 
Checking Status or Controlling Outputs (Electronically
 switched Devices)............................... 93 
Panel Communications and Updates
................................................................................................... 95 
Panel Communications
.............................................................................................................. 95 
Activating Communications and T
ransferring Panel Settings .................................................... 96 
Vie
wing the Status of Previous Communications Sessions..................................................... 100 
Correcting Communication/Update Errors
............................................................................... 101 
Checki
ng Account Status (V4.4)....................................................................................................... 103 
Pane
l Firmware Files, and Updating Panel Firmware (V4.4)............................................................ 104 
Activating Panel Firm
ware Files............................................................................................... 104 
Updating Panel Firmw
are ........................................................................................................ 106 
A
dministration and Maintenance ......................................................................................................... 109 
Operators (People Who Can Use 
This Software)............................................................................... 110 
Setting or Changing an Operator's Pass
word.......................................................................... 112 
Operator Settings (v4.6)
.......................................................................................................... 113 
Operator Permissions
.............................................................................................................. 114 
Scheduled Event Filtering for 
Operators.................................................................................. 117 
Schedules for 
User-Access and Area Automation.............................................................................. 119 
Holiday
s and Time-Change Dates...................................................................................................... 121 
Authorit
y Groups to Manage Large Numbers of Authorities (v4.6) .................................................... 123 
Authoriti
es for Users/Entrants (V4.4)................................................................................................ 124 
Custom Information Categories for Users (Custom User Information) ............................................... 129 
Users (Entrant
s / Panel Users)........................................................................................................... 130 
T
he Photo-Badging Option ...................................................................................................... 135 
Cards that Hav
e Been Lost...................................................................................................... 140 
Fall-Back Users (Can Enter During Comms Failure)
............................................................... 141 
S
ystem Maintenance Tasks ............................................................................................................... 143 
Pass
word and Personal ID Number (PIN) Issues.................................................................... 143 
Large S
ystems--Checking for Software vs. Panel Differences / Conflicts................................ 144 
Client/Server S
ystems: Checking to See Who Else is Logged onto the Database ................ 145 
Checking / Repairing the Guardall Director Database T
ables.................................................. 146 
Backing up or 
Restoring the Database .................................................................................... 147 
Making 
a Database 'Backup' Using the Director Software .......................................... 148 
Making 
a Database 'Backup' Using the Table Repair Utility........................................ 149 
Setting Backups to Occur Automatically
 (Scheduled Backups) v4.5........................... 150 
Reverting to (Restoring) a Bac
kup Copy of the Guardall Director Database............... 150 
Ex
porting or Importing Activity or Audit Logs (Archive)............................................................ 151 
Removing old 
Activity or Audit Logs (Purge)............................................................................ 153 
Operating Sy
stem Maintenance............................................................................................... 154 










