My Recommendations: Entry-Sign setup in Education

[MatTheTech]

1. Networking: Put Entry-Sign serve/Host its own entry-sign VLAN subnet with the terminals OR put Entry-sign terminals on their own VLAN subnet and the host on a server VLAN.

2. Anti-Virus: Also ensure you have AV installed on the Entry-Sign server and ensure it can get it's signature updates from whether they're on-prem or over the internet

3. ACLs: Ensure that your server and terminals can talk to each other on their relevant VLANs, the server can talk to a WSUS server, an AV on-prem server or relevant signature update addresses on the internet.

4. WSUS: Ensure your Entry-Sign server can talk to a WSUS server to get the latest updates.

5. Entry-Sign "Sites": Ensure if you only have one site configured on your entry sign system otherwise this causes confusion and the sign in/out records will be inaccurate. So for example if your entry sign host is "Site 1" then ensure your terminals which are connected to that server say "Site 1" too. If your host and terminal are configured as different sites this means you automatically get signed out of the other site when you sign into one site!

6. Backups: Please don't backup the Entry-Sign server to its own drive! I'll let you work that one out for yourself!!! back it up to a UNC path which is picked up/backed up by your chosen backup solution.

7.. Vendor Support: Ensure you ALWAYS have a support contract as this is effectively your fire evacuation system... so its obviously quite critical!!

8. Regularly Test that you can print evacuation reports etc to test the system in action (as it were!)

Edited February 23 by MatTheTech