Enabling long credential support on Mercury controllers

2024-03-26Last updated

Before you can use credentials of up to 240 bits with your Mercury controllers, you must enable support for long credentials on your Synergis™ Cloud Link unit.

Before you begin

Ensure the following:
  • Your Synergis Cloud Link is running Synergis™ Softwire 11.0 or later, and that it is online and connected to your network.
  • The Mercury controllers that you want to use long credential support with are running firmware version 1.29.1 or later.

What you should know

Because credentials of 64 bits or longer are not automatically synchronized with Mercury, you must manually enable them.

Procedure

  1. Log on to the Synergis Cloud Link unit.
  2. Click Configuration > Mercury controller settings .
  3. Click the Database layout settings tab from the side menu, and then select the Long credentials database layout from the list.
  4. Click the Long credential formats tab from the side menu, and then enter the credential length you want to use.
    The value must be from 64 to 240.
  5. Click Add.
    You can add up to eight different credential formats.
  6. Click Save.
  7. Perform a software restart:
    1. In the top menu, click Restart > Software restart .
  8. After the software restart, log back on to the Synergis Cloud Link unit.
  9. On the Mercury controller settings page, click the Buses tab from the side menu.
  10. Click Reset for the controllers that require long credential support.
The new credential formats that you enabled can be used with your Mercury controllers.