--- title: Avigilon Alta API Integration on Truto slug: avigilonalta category: Default canonical: "https://truto.one/integrations/detail/avigilonalta/" --- # Avigilon Alta API Integration on Truto **Category:** Default **Status:** Generally available ## Unified APIs ### Unified User Directory API - **Roles** — The Role object represents a role of a User. - **Users** — The User object represents a User. ## How it works 1. **Link your customer's Avigilon Alta account.** Use Truto's frontend SDK; we handle every OAuth and API key flow so you don't need to create the OAuth app. 2. **Authentication is automatic.** Truto refreshes tokens, stores credentials securely, and injects them into every API request. 3. **Call Truto's API to reach Avigilon Alta.** The Proxy API is a 1-to-1 mapping of the Avigilon Alta API. 4. **Get a unified response format.** Every response uses a single shape, with cursor-based pagination and data in the `result` field. ## Use cases - **Automate employee access provisioning from HR and IT systems** — SaaS companies building onboarding or identity management tools can sync employee records to Avigilon Alta, automatically creating users, assigning roles, and revoking physical building access when someone is terminated — all without manual intervention from the customer's security team. - **Sync directory groups for multi-site physical access control** — Workforce management or IT admin platforms can push organizational changes — new departments, role reassignments, office transfers — directly into Avigilon Alta's user and role structure, keeping physical access permissions aligned with the digital org chart across distributed facilities. - **Power visitor and temporary access workflows** — Visitor management and front-desk SaaS products can create and manage temporary users in Avigilon Alta tied to meeting schedules, automatically granting and expiring physical access credentials without requiring the customer's IT team to touch the security console. - **Centralize user directories across physical security and cloud identity providers** — Security orchestration and compliance platforms can read user and role data from Avigilon Alta alongside other identity systems to build a unified view of who has access to what — both digitally and physically — surfacing gaps and policy violations automatically. ## What you can build - **Automated new-hire access provisioning** — Create Avigilon Alta users and assign them to the correct roles the moment an employee is marked active in your customer's HR system. - **Real-time offboarding access revocation** — Instantly remove or deactivate a user in Avigilon Alta when their employment status changes to terminated, closing the physical access gap in seconds. - **Cross-platform role and group sync** — Map roles from identity providers or HRIS platforms to Avigilon Alta roles so that department or title changes automatically update building access permissions. - **Unified physical access audit dashboard** — Pull user and role data from Avigilon Alta alongside other directory sources to give security teams a single pane of glass showing who has physical access and whether it matches policy. - **Temporary user lifecycle management** — Programmatically create time-bound users in Avigilon Alta for contractors, visitors, or temporary workers and automatically clean them up when their engagement ends. ## FAQs ### What Avigilon Alta data can I access through Truto today? Truto's Unified User Directory API supports Users and Roles for Avigilon Alta. This lets you read, create, and manage user records and their role assignments. Additional tools and endpoints (e.g., entries, credentials, event logs) are not pre-built but can be developed on request. ### How does authentication work for the Avigilon Alta integration? Avigilon Alta's API uses OAuth-based or API key authentication. Truto manages the full auth lifecycle for your end users — token exchange, refresh, and secure storage — so your team doesn't need to handle credentials directly. ### Can I request additional Avigilon Alta API capabilities beyond Users and Roles? Yes. Truto builds integration tools on request. If you need access to entries, credentials, event logs, webhooks, or video-related endpoints, Truto can scope and deliver those as custom tools tailored to your use case. ### Does Truto handle pagination and rate limits for Avigilon Alta API calls? Yes. Truto abstracts away pagination and respects Avigilon Alta's rate limits automatically, so your application receives complete, consistent data sets without needing to implement retry logic or cursor management. ### Can I use the same integration code for Avigilon Alta and other directory systems? Yes. Truto's Unified User Directory API provides a standardized schema for Users and Roles across multiple integrations. Code you write against the unified API works for Avigilon Alta and any other supported directory provider without per-vendor logic. ### How fresh is the data when reading users and roles from Avigilon Alta? Data is fetched in real time from Avigilon Alta's API when you make a request through Truto. There is no caching layer that introduces staleness — you always get the current state of the customer's directory.