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Overview of the Web Portal

The web portal provides a way for you to monitor and manage your security system. This topic addresses the general layout of the web portal. The remaining help topics are divided into chapters that address each of the tabs and other types of information about the web portal.

Note:   Some features described in this document are not included in all installations, either because your system configuration does not support them or because they are not included in your service package. Those features include:

If you are interested in adding any of these features to your installation, please contact your service provider.

The following information is displayed at the top of the page throughout the application, regardless of which tab is selected:

Below the information at the top of the page are some tabs (depending on your configuration):

You can click each tab to display information about that part of the portal. Refer to the chapter for each tab for details about its uses and functionality.

To the right of and below the tabs is the icon and Help link, which you can click to access online help for the current page. (See "Online Help" for more information about the online help system.)

At the bottom of each page is a series of links that you can click to display more general information that you might find helpful.