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Genetec health check, self-assessment
A Genetec environment can pass a basic smell test and still hide risk in architecture, storage, monitoring, security, and lifecycle. Work through this before it shows up as an outage, an archive gap, a failed upgrade, or an audit finding.
Ten sections, about 45 minutes for a system you know. Tap PASS, FAIL, or N/A for each item. Add a field note where context matters. Answers are saved in this browser as you go. When you are done, review the result on this page, download the PDF, or hand it off via the email button.
See a sample report (PDF), built from a fictional site.
What this tool is
A field-grade Genetec Security Center self-assessment. Ten sections, severity-ranked items, free-form field notes, an on-page result, and a generated PDF report you can attach to a deliverable. Built from a working integrator's checklist used on real systems across federal, public-safety, and enterprise sites. If you want someone else to run this instead, that is the Genetec health check service.
How to use it
- Open it on the device you are checking from. A phone or laptop in a server closet works.
- Enter the system name (required), site, and your name. The PDF references these.
- Walk the sections in order or jump around. Progress and coverage are tracked at the top.
- Mark PASS, FAIL, or N/A. Tap an answer again to clear it. Add a field note where the answer needs context.
- Check the result panel for critical and high findings as you go, then hit Save PDF report for a download, or Email report to download and open a draft for sending.
How the score works
Each item carries a severity. A failed item weighs against the score in proportion to its severity, so a failed critical item drags the score far harder than a failed low one. Any critical fail caps the overall score at 49. Any high fail, with no critical fail present, caps it at 74. Below 80 percent coverage, a numeric score is not shown; answer more items first. Items marked N/A are left out of the coverage count.
Where the checklist comes from
The item set was distilled from a working integrator's field practice across years of Genetec deployments. Severity assignments are a starting opinion drawn from incident frequency and operational impact. Adjust per engagement if your context disagrees. A printable, blank version of the same checklist, without scoring, is at /genetec-health-check-checklist/.
Privacy
The tool runs in your browser and the PDF is generated locally. Your answers and field notes are saved only in this browser's local storage and are not uploaded; when a report is generated the site records the score and the pass/fail/na counts so I can see which checks matter in the field. Clear the browser data or hit Reset and the saved session is gone. Save the PDF before you leave the page.
Related guidance
- Genetec Security Center: Architecture, Roles, and Workstation Best Practices, the design context for most of the Environment, Servers, and Storage sections.
- Genetec Security Center: Server Configuration and Performance Tuning, covers the power plan, SQL memory, NIC buffers, and antivirus exclusions called out in Servers and Network.
- Deploying Active Directory for Genetec Security Center, the Security section's AD integration and service account guidance.
- Antivirus exclusions for video management systems, the full exclusion list behind the Storage section's AV item.
- Security system hardening guide, the hardening lens the whole check maps to.
The tool generates a report. It does not fix the findings. Treat the output as a working punch list. If the deployment is yours to run, work through it. If it is an engagement, hand it off with the field notes intact.
Runs in your browser. When you generate output, this site records that a generation happened and the score and pass/fail/na counts so I can see which options get used in the field. The text you paste in and the values you enter are not uploaded. See the privacy policy.