System Options; Security - Axis 231D+ User Manual

System Options

Security

User access control is enabled by default, the administrator sets the root password on first
access. Other users are authorized with user names and passwords, or the administrator can
choose to allow anonymous viewer login to the Live View page, as described below:
Users - the user list displays the authorized users and access levels:
User
Description
Viewer
Provides the lowest level of access, which only allows the user access to the Live View page.
Operator
An Operator can view the Live View page, create and modify event types and adjust certain other
settings. The Operator does not have access to the Systems Options configuration pages.
Administrator
An administrator has unrestricted access to the Setup Tools and can determine the registration of all
other users.
User Settings - check the corresponding checkboxes to enable:
• Anonymous viewer login - allows any viewer direct access to the Live View
page.
• Anonymous PTZ control login - allows any viewer access to the Pan/Tilt/Zoom
controllers on the Live View page.
IP Address Filtering
Allowed IP Addresses.
the IP address filtering checkbox is checked, the AXIS 231D+/232D+ will only allow access
to requests coming from the IP addresses in the list.
The users from these IP addresses need to be specified in the user list with the appropriate
access rights (User, Operator or Administrator).
to prevent unauthorized sources from including the video stream from the
Referrals .
AXIS 231D+/232D+ into external Web pages, check the Referrals checkbox and enter the
IP address or Host name of the computer that hosts the Web pages with the included video
stream. Several IP addresses/host names can be defined and are separated by semicolons(;)
Notes:
• If the referrals feature is enabled and you wish to also allow normal access to the Live View page, the
product's own IP address or host name must be added to the list of allowed referrers.
• Restricting referrers has no effect on an MPEG-4 video stream. To restrict an MPEG-4 stream, IP address
filtering must be enabled.
• Restricting referrers is of greatest value when not using IP address filtering. If IP address filtering is used,
then the allowed referrers are automatically restricted to those allowed IP addresses.
The administrator can add up to 256 IP addresses to this list. If
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