Bulk enrollment allows the administrators to enroll multiple access cards and assign the cards to users at one time.
This article describes how to use the DualShield Access Card Scanning Utility to generate import files for Tokens & User Assignment for DualShield.
The tool is available at our downloads page, in the "Tools" section.
The Main interface is divided into three sections. The top left section deals with connecting to your Company's Active Directory (AD). The bottom left section provides a search function for finding a specific user in AD. The Right hand section details what card readers can be used for scanning on the computer and also displays results of scanned cards. At the bottom of this section is the assignment list, which shows all the cards that have been assigned to users in this session.
The Active Directory section lists four user input fields and two buttons, their purpose is listed below:
Just below this section is the Search Users dialog. Here you can search users from the Active Directory to which you have connected to. When selecting users, their Username is displayed. Selecting an individual user shows you their full Name also for identifying purposes.
The Card readers dialog details the available reader connected to the computer that have been detected. If no readers are present, you can plug one in and hit refresh to try and find it.
Once you have a reader in the list, Select it and press the "Start Scanning" button. This will connect to the selected Card Reader and start a Scanning Session that will continously read cards that are scanned on it. The "Stop Scanning" button terminates scanning on the currently running card scanner device.
While you have a Scanning Session running on your selected card reader, scanning cards will populate the "Card Details" section just below.
After a card is scanned, the ID, Serial No. and Description fields are automatically filled in. ID cannot be edited as this is the Unique Identifier of the Access Card. Serial No. is an automatically generated number based on epoch time (as to ensure uniqueness between card scans). This number is used as the Serial number for the token in DualShield later when imported. Serial No. can be edited safely to a number of your choosing, provided that no two tokens share the same serial number in DualShield once imported. Description is automatically generated but can also be edited freely is necessary.
At the bottom right of the program is the card assignment list. This list will populate after each selected user is paired with the currently scanned card. To Assign a user to a scanned card, the user must first be selected in the Search Users section and a card must have been scanned, which can be indicated if the Card Details section has been automatically populated. After these two conditions have been met, pressing the Assign to Selected User button will create the card assignment and add it to the list.
The Delete Entry button can be used if a mistake is made, by selecting the user and pressing the button.
After you have scanned all your users, you are ready to generate the files necessary to import into DualShield to make user of these tokens & user assignments. Press the Generate Import Files button, which will then prompt you to supply a filename and location to save two files (.CSV & .XML). These files can then be imported into DualShield via the Repository > Token Management. More details on how to do this can be found at the following links: