Avigilon Unity Access

Avigilon provides high-definition surveillance solutions and is used by many companies to ensure secure access control and visitor logs.

Updated over a week ago


PREREQUISTES

  1. Admin permissions are necessary in order to configure this integration. (See Step 1).

  2. Please whitelist the following IP addresses for inbound and outbound communication:

    1. 54.84.138.60

    2. 54.84.66.109

  3. Verify your Unity instance public IP and port. Please whitelist the port alongside the above IPs.



How does Avigilon work with Envoy?

Envoy will send a record of every visitor who signs in on the iPad into the Avigilon event log. Envoy will automatically create an identity in Avigilon for each new visitor.

You can configure Envoy to apply a certain identity type, site location, building, and/or role for your visitor records. You can then utilize all of Avigilon’s features for your visitors, such as badge provisioning, security alerts, and more. 

Step 1: Create an admin account in Avigilon

Giving Super admin access would be easiest; however, if your team would prefer not to give that access, the login credentials being used would need the following permissions:

  • Identities Listing

  • Tokens Edit Last Area

  • Tokens Listing

  • Tokens Update

Step 2: Whitelist IP addresses

For the application to work and connect to your Avigilon instance, please allowlist the following IP addresses:

  • 54.84.138.60

  • 54.84.66.109

Step 3: Install the Avigilon App in Envoy

  1. Navigate to Apps > All Apps.

  2. Under Access Control, find Avigilon.

  3. Enter your Avigilon account login credentials and publicly available IP address/name (and port, if necessary), and click “next step.”

  4. Enter information about how you would like visitors to be assigned Identities in Avigilon. The identity type and identity role are required.

    1. Optionally, you can choose to add a site location and building.

Step 4: Setup Employees Options

If your company has Envoy Workplace enabled, please continue with the setup by selecting your options to enable or opt out specific employees from the automation.

  1. Workplace Enabled: This option will enable all options in the section to be configured. Disabling this option will disable all options regardless of their state (e.g., "Disabled During Sign Out" toggled on).

  2. Exclude Employees: This option allows you to select employees to entirely exclude from Envoy Workplace functionality.

  3. Enable During Sign-In: This option will enable employee badges during sign-in with Workplace.

  4. Disable During Sign-Out: This option will disable employee badges during sign-out from Workplace.

    Step 5: Complete the Setup

    Please click Complete Setup to save your configuration

How do Envoy entries look in Avigilon?

  1. Sign yourself in as a test visitor to ensure that your visitor entry is sent to the Avigilon event log.

  2. Log into your Avigilon instance.

  3. Your test visitor record will appear in the event log.

    1. Note: Visitor name will appear in the source column and the last name and first name columns correspond to your Avigilon admin name.

  4. You can search for all of your visitors based on the identity type.

  5. You can also examine and adjust each visitor’s individual identity.

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