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OPTIMOD-PC
Security
OPTIMOD-PC is designed for networking. Because most PCs are now networked, the
cards must be protected from unauthorized access when networking is activated.
Two levels of security achieve this:
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Each card has a User password that allows an authorized user to "connect" to
the card via the OPTIMOD-PC Control Application. When this occurs, the user
can work with the audio processing functions in the card, can change and edit
presets, and can do other tasks similar to those that one would do on a stand-
alone audio processor.
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Each card has a Terminal Password that allows you to connect to a card via
OPTIMOD-PC TCP/IP terminal server to allow external control of the OPTIMOD-
PC cards from either a Telnet/SSH client or a custom third party application. See
Optimod-PC System/Mixer Control API on page 2-46.
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Each card has an Administrator password that allows an administrator to change
the name of the card, allow network access, change the Administrator password,
and change the User password from anywhere on the network.
Only an administrator can assign and change user passwords. If the user
has checked "remember password" on the dialog box requesting pass-
word entry, only the administrator can "uncheck" the "remember pass-
word" function for that card.
Unless networking is activated, cards located in a given machine are visi-
ble only to the Orban Control application running locally on that ma-
chine. They are invisible to other machines on the network. Not running
in "network" mode therefore provides considerable security.
•
By creating a "Network Accept List," you can specify which computers are per-
mitted to connect to a given OPTIMOD-PC. This provides a layer of security that
complements password protection. See step 7 on page 2-9.
Each OPTIMOD-PC has a unique serial number burned into its on-card ROM. It is also
written on a label on the card's mounting flange so it can be seen from outside the
host computer. The serial number is the fundamental means by which the Orban
software identifies the card. When you first install your card(s), the card's serial
number appears next to the profile name in the Connect drop-down box and at the
top left hand corner in the application when you are connected to that card.
The Orban software allows you to give a card an easily remembered name (e.g.,
"KORB") so the software does not have to address the card by its serial number. This
name is an alias that is local to the computer from which you named the card; the
same card could be known by a different name on each computer in the network.
If you give your card an alias name, this name will appear (instead of the serial num-
ber) next to the profile name in the Connect drop-down box and at the top left
hand corner in the application when you are connected to that card.
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INTRODUCTION
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