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Policies
Policies are limits that can be imposed on people and security devices within the Access Control
Manager system. A policy is an aggregation of pre-selected hardware and software components
that can be applied to groups, and through those groups, assign them to persons.
For example, you can define a 'Technician' policy which restricts anyone who is a member of that
policy to specific doors and areas associated with the company's laboratories.
To bring up the policy module, click on the Policies icon from the main icon menu bar.
To create one or more policies:
1. From the icon task bar on the home page, select Policies.
The Policy Listing page appears like this example:
2. Click the button.
The Policy Add page appears like this example:
3. Enter information about the group as follows.
The fields on this page include:
Group Policy Identifies the name of the group.
Partition
If required, select an existing partition from this pick list. Only
those people assigned this partition can use this policy.
Only those partitions that are currently defined for this system
appear in this list.
Installed
Check this box to indicate that this policy is online and ready to
be used.
Door Check this box to indicate that this policy affects panels.
A Mercury page is added to this property sheet.
Input
Check this box to indicate that this policy affects inputs.
An input page is added to this property sheet.