Setup overview

2025-11-12Last updated

Setting up Security Center SaaS involves planning, ordering, activating, and configuring the system.

  1. Learn about Security Center SaaS and how it works.
  2. Review the Security Center SaaS requirements:
    1. Presale checklist
    2. Network requirements
    3. Ports and protocols
    4. Supported devices
  3. Commission a new system:
    The Security Center SaaS system commissioning flow showing actions taken by the partner and the system owner.
    1. Review the business requirements.
    2. Build a quote.
    3. Place an order.
    4. Activate the system.
  4. Sign in to Security Center SaaS.
    1. Accept our Terms of Service.
      Important:
      During activation, the system integrator assigns access to selected users to configure the system. To grant access to additional users:
      • The End-User System Admin specified on the order must sign in and accept the Terms of Service. If this step is not completed, assigned users can't sign in.
      • An administrator must update the user group from the Access page of the target system in the System Management portal.
  5. Create your users and apply roles.
  6. Create groups to define inherited user permissions based on group membership.
  7. Add devices.
    1. Activate video thumbnails on timeline.
    2. Activate camera analytics events.
    3. Activate camera metadata.
    4. Activate privacy protection.
    Note:
    The visibility of local devices depends on the location of your appliances. For devices to be discoverable, the appliance must be on the same local network as the device.
  8. (Optional) Configure federation through reverse tunneling.
  9. (Optional) Download desktop clients from the Security Center SaaS Welcome page.

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