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Adding Federation™ users
To allow clients of Security Center to view and control their Stratocast™ cameras from their local installation of Security Desk, you can add Federation™ users and then configure the Federation™ role in Config Tool.

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- User levels
  A user level is an access requirement that defines a user's ability to perform certain tasks once logged on to Stratocast™. Excluding the cloud administrator of Genetec Inc., there are four user levels with varying privileges in Stratocast™.
- Integrator account types
  Account privileges, such as the number of cameras that you are allowed to add, are defined by the account type that you have been assigned.
- Adding integrator users
  As an integrator administrator, you can add other integrators to one or more of your Stratocast™ accounts so that they can help you manage your client accounts.
- Modifying integrator users
  After integrator users have been added to your integrator account, you can modify their information even if they have not yet activated their Stratocast™ account.
- Searching for integrator users
  If the list of integrator users is long and it is difficult to find a particular one, you can search for the user by name to find what you are looking for quickly.
- Deleting integrator users
  If an integrator user is no longer required, you can delete them so that they are permanently removed from your account.
- About Federation™
  Federation™ joins multiple, independent Genetec™ security systems into a single virtual system. With this feature, users on a central system, called the Federation host, can view and control entities that belong to remote systems.
- About Federation™ users and remote monitoring
  Although the Federation™ user feature and remote monitoring user feature are similar in concept, and both use the Federation™ role in Security Center, they each have a specific function.
- Adding remote monitoring users
  To allow integrators who use Security Center to manage their client accounts from their local installation of Security Desk, you can add a remote monitoring user and then configure the Federation™ role in Config Tool.
- Deleting the remote monitoring user
  An integrator user or integrator administrator can delete the remote monitoring user when remote access to the client account is no longer required.
- Adding Federation™ users
  To allow clients of Security Center to view and control their Stratocast™ cameras from their local installation of Security Desk, you can add Federation™ users and then configure the Federation™ role in Config Tool.
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Adding Federation™ users

2018-07-16

To allow clients of Security Center to view and control their Stratocast™ cameras from their local installation of Security Desk, you can add Federation™ users and then configure the Federation™ role in Config Tool.

Before you begin

Make sure that you have created the client account that you want to add the Federation™ user to.

What you should know

You can add an unlimited number of Federation™ users per client account. From their local version of Security Desk, clients that are assigned as Federation™ users can do the following with their cameras:

View live and playback video
Add bookmarks
Start and stop video recording
Export video
Control their PTZ cameras
Axis ACAP only

Important: When exporting video in a federated system, the exported video file is stored on the client's local system, not in the Stratocast™ vault. Only video that is exported in Stratocast™ gets stored in the vault.

Procedure

If your username is registered to multiple Stratocast™ accounts, select an account.
Click Clients and then select an account from the Account name column.

Note: If you have difficulty finding the client account, you can search for it by using the Search box.
In the Federation users field of the Users section, click Edit details.

Note: If the Federation users field is not displayed, contact Stratocast™ support.
Click Add a Federation™ user, enter a brief description to identify the user by, and then click Create.
The User state column changes from Creating to Active. The Federation™ user is added.
In the Federation™ users page, click the Username of the Federation™ user that you just added.
In the Connection details field, click Download and follow the onscreen instructions to open the text file or save it to your local drive.
A text file that contains the Federation™ user's Security Center credentials is automatically generated.

Example

Watch this video to learn more. Click the Captions icon (CC) to turn on video captions in one of the available languages.

After you finish

Using the Security Center credentials that were automatically generated, create a Federation™ role in Config Tool. For more information about the Federation™ feature, and how to create a Federation™ role in Config Tool, see the Security Center Administrator Guide.