IPSecurityCenter™ Feature Guide: Dashboards

Ensure global oversight of operations with the ability to drill deeper into issues

IPSecurityCenter™ provides a range of dashboard • Intuitive data presentation

options for security managers to gain local and global
oversight of their operations and all the key factors that
influence their effectiveness.
Immediately understand events that are impacting your
organisation and that require deeper analysis. All your
Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) can be displayed,
allowing you to click through the charts in the
dashboard to gain deeper insights into each alarm,
event or alert. Measure and monitor the effectiveness
of operators and security system performance as well
as the status of each of your sub-systems.
• Increased Productivity
From Data to Intelligent Insights
Dashboards can be used to create intelligent insight
from a wide range of information sources, which can
include data from alarms, human interaction,
connected device and machine data. These insights can
help to increase the performance of people, processes
and technology, all helping to enhance security and
improve the efficiency of the overall security mission.

IPSecurityCenter provides a range of options for

dashboards, which includes an out-of-the-box
dashboard that provides performance information in
real time and the option for the user to modify the built
-in dashboard and create their own dashboard as
required. It also includes dashboard components that
can be used within user-defined interfaces as well as
links to external dashboard tools such as Microsoft
SSRS.
Drill Deeper
IPSecurityCenter dashboards not only display vital
information on performance, but they have also been
developed and designed to allow users to drill deeper in
to the data, to analyse multiple layers so they can
visualise and understand more.

System dashboards, views and UI dashboards

components complement each other and can be used
to meet different user needs. The out-of-the box
dashboard provides visualization on common data sets
as well as the machine performance, the views can be
used both inside IPSecurityCenter and externally to
create a more tailored dashboard view, and the UI
components can be used to add context within the
user interface. Take Control
Benefits of dashboards; Our dashboards enable users to discover what is
• At a glance operational oversight working for them, uncover areas of improvement, help
• Ability to drill deep into underlying issues them enforce their SLAs, understand training
• Brings data to life, making it easier to see the trends requirements and so much more. All of these insights
• Customizable common operating picture help to increase emergency preparedness, reduce cost

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and to give them control of their environment. available data sources.

Manage More with Less About CNL Software

As the number of locations, processes, systems and
devices increases in the control room, so does the need
to manage technology proactively. Our dashboard
provides the perfect way to understand the security
status of an entire enterprise in a single view.
At CNL Software we believe in a connected world,
where security and life safety are not compromised by
silos of information that cannot talk to each other. We
believe that technology should take the complexity out
of decision making by integrating systems, people and
processes.

Using Widgets We work with the world’s leading manufacturers of

Dashboard Widgets are simple-to-use, customisable
user interface components that can be configured to
display different category of information within a
Dashboard. Widget layouts are determined by the
widget types you select from the available options.
security and life safety systems to create an agnostic
method to connect critical technologies. For the past 15
years, we have been perfecting the ultimate PSIM
platform for enterprise applications, IPSecurityCenter,
the worlds most sophisticated, tried and trusted PSIM
platform.

By default, the System Dashboard displays the following For more information, visit www.cnlsoftware.com.
dashboard widgets, however these can be customised
them to suit any requirements.

Widget Types
Several types of widgets to be displayed on the
IPSecurityCenter dashboard. Simply select from one of
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• Grid – Provides the option to configure a data Ashburn, VA 20147, USA
source that can further be displayed in a grid view.
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You can create as many dashboards as you like in
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Dashboard layout and display settings, and by Email: info@cnlsoftware.com
configuring widgets to display the information from the

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