Angus AnyWhere
Angus Systems·AE_HSc_ANGUSConnectorGuide
Overview
The Angus connector integrates AlertEnterprise Guardian with Angus AnyWhere — Angus Systems' commercial real estate operations / tenant services platform with embedded visitor management and access functionality. Angus is the dominant tenant-services platform in commercial real estate (Class A office properties) — supporting it is a strategic differentiator for AE in deals involving multi-tenant office buildings where the building operator uses Angus for tenant-service requests and AE for security.
Categorization note: Angus is technically more of a tenant-services platform than a pure PACS. It's categorized as pacs in the connector catalog because its access / visitor management functionality is what AE integrates with. For visitor management features specifically, Angus is the most common destination connector in the commercial real estate vertical.
Architecture: AE → ACF → ANGUS Connector → ANGUS Rest Web Service (SDK) → ANGUS Server.
Architecture
Composed from this connector's actors + edges. Trust zones are color-coded; trust crossings render as thicker lines.
Authentication
1 method supported
Basic auth credentials configured in AE connector. SSL/TLS required.
Prerequisites
Everything that must be in place for this connector to work, with the owner who's responsible.
ANGUS SDK Web Service deployed
customerThe ANGUS Web Service (part of the ANGUS SDK) must be deployed and reachable from the AE application server.
PACS specifics
ANGUS users are typically visitors and tenant-employees in commercial real estate contexts.
ANGUS access model is tenant-services oriented, not traditional PACS access levels. Site-specific configuration.
Single ANGUS deployment per AE→ANGUS connector. ANGUS itself is multi-tenant by design (one ANGUS instance serves multiple tenants in a building).
- Topology
- on-prem
- Event model
- polling
- Anti-passback
- unknown
- Holiday schedules
- unknown
- src/connectors/angus/source.pdf — Full connector guide, updated 2024-12-03
- src/connectors/angus/source.pdf — p5 — Supported Version