A role is intended for assigning a group of users individual rights and permissions for administration, management and/or monitoring of individual components of C-Werk.
To register a new role, perform the following:
- At the end of the list of system roles, click the Create link.
The new role is added in the system, with its properties displayed on the right side. - Enter a name for the role in the corresponding field (1).
Select priority of PTZ cameras control for users with the current role.
Select priority of map access for users with the current role (2).
Access level
Description
View only
You can only view maps
View/move/scale
You can move and scale maps
Full access
All options available
- Set access permissions for C-Werk features (3). Access can be restricted to such features as:
- Archive search (see Video surveillance in Archive Search mode).
- Adding a camera to a layout in live video mode (see Adding cameras to cells).
- Adding and editing presets for PTZ cameras (see Control Using the Presets List).
- Alarms Management (see Video surveillance in Alarm Management mode).
No access: users have no access to alarm videos. View only: users can view alarm videos but they can't evaluate alarms. Full access: users can view alarm videos and evaluate alarms
Creating comments (see Operator comments) and protected records in Video Footage (see Protecting video footage from FIFO overwriting).
Access level
Description
No access
No comments allowed
Create
Add comments to archives
Create / Protect
Add comments to archives, create protected records
Create / Protect / Edit / Delete
Add comments to archives, create and edit protected records
- Removing videos from the footage archive.
- Allow unprotected export (see Frame export, Standard video export). Set No to require setting a password for exported images and video.
- Exporting snapshots and video recordings (see Exporting Frames and Video Recordings).
Editing layouts (see Configuring Layouts).
- Minimizing the Client to the system tray (see Interface of the C-Werk Software Package).
- Managing an C-Werk domain (see C-Werk Domain operations).
Access to the Web server (see Working with C-Werk Through the Web Client).
- Displaying captions (see Viewing titles from POS terminals).
- Show faces (see Masking faces).
- Viewing the system log (see The System Log).
Context menu of a video camera in a viewing tile (see Viewing Tile Context Menu).
- View masked video in archive (see Setting up privacy masking in Video Footage).
Configure access rights to the Settings tabs and to system error messages (4).
Note
Error messages are displayed in real time in the Layouts interface
Set access permissions for Layouts in C-Werk (5). This setting is related to both primary and web clients.
four-eye principle: if the user's role requires administrator's confirmation, select the appropriate role from the list (6).
If you need to grant the users in this role permissions only for a certain period of time, select a Time schedule (7) from the list. These users will not be able to use their permissions outside of the selected time schedule.
- Configure access to video wall management by setting permissions for each Server on an C-Werk domain (8). A user who has management permissions for the video walls of a particular Server can manage the video walls of any Client connected to that Server.
Set permissions for access to hardware and archives on an C-Werk domain (9).
Device
Access permissions
Description
Video camera
No access
You cannot access the device.
Live in Armed mode
You can view video from the camera only when the camera is armed.
Live
You can live video from the camera. Other functions and device configuration are not available.
Live/Archive
You can view live and recorded video from the camera. You cannot arm/disarm/configure the camera.
Live/Archive/Control
All functions available. You cannot configure the device.
Live/Archive/Control/Configure All functions and settings available.
Microphone
No access
The user is unable to listen to live sound from the video camera. The user is unable to listen to sound recordings from the archive.
Live Audio
The user is able to listen to live sound from the video camera (the microphone must be turned on). The user is unable to listen to sound recordings from the archive.
Live Audio and Archive
All functions are accessible
PTZ
No access
The user cannot control the PTZ device
Minimum level
The user can control the PTZ device with the corresponding priority (see Controlling a PTZ Camera)
Low level Medium level High level Maximum level Archive No access Access is not provided to this archive Full access Archive is available for all functions You can configure group rights for accessing devices and archives of a particular Server. To do so, select an access level for the Server object. Depending on the level that is chosen, particular access levels are automatically configured for the devices and archives of the relevant Server (see table).
Server access level
Device/archive
Device/archive access level
Custom
-
Access levels for devices and archives are set manually
No access
-
No access to devices and archives
Live in Armed Mode
Video camera
You can view armed cameras
Microphone
Live Audio
PTZ
Medium level
Archive
No access
Live
Video camera
You can view live video
Microphone
Live Audio
PTZ
Medium level
Archive
No access
Live/Archive
Video camera
You can view live and recorded video
Microphone
Live Audio and Archive
PTZ
Medium level
Archive
Full access
Live/Archive/Control
Video camera
All functions. Settings not available.
Microphone
Live Audio and Archive
PTZ
Medium level
Archive
Full access
Live/Archive/Control/Configure Video camera All functions + settings available. Microphone Live Audio and Archive PTZ Maximum level Archive Full access Click the Apply button to save the role.
The new role has now been created.
To delete a role, perform the following:
Select the role to delete.
Click Delete.
Note
You cannot delete a role if the user through which you logged into the system belongs to that role.
- Click the Apply button.
The role has now been deleted. All users under this role will also be deleted.