Login History; Root Account - Cisco TelePresence Video Communication Server Administrator's Manual

Field Description
SASL The SASL (Simple Authentication and Security
Layer) mechanism to use when binding to the
LDAP server.
None: no mechanism is used.
DIGEST-MD5: the DIGEST-MD5 mechanism is
used.
The default is DIGEST-MD5.
VCS bind The username used by the VCS when binding to the
username LDAP server with SASL.
Directory configuration: this section specifies the base distinguished names to use when
searching for account and group names.
Base DN The distinguished name to use as the base when
for searching for administrator and user accounts.
accounts
Base DN The distinguished name to use as the base when
for groups searching for administrator and user groups.
The status of the connection to the specified LDAP server is displayed at the bottom of the page.
See the Authenticating VCS accounts using LDAP deployment guide [30] for more details on
configuring an LDAP server, including help on specifying distinguished names for searching the
database.

Login history

The Login history page is displayed immediately after logging in. It shows the recent activity of the
currently logged in account.
Note that this page is only displayed if the account is in
This session
This section shows the login date and time of the currently logged in account, and the IP address from
where the login originated.
Previous sessions (for this account)
This section shows the date, time and source IP address of the last successful login for this account.
If applicable it also shows details of the last failed login attempt for this account, and the number of
failed login attempts since the last successful login.

Root account

The VCS provides a root account which can be used to log in to the VCS operating system. This
account has a username of root (all lower case) and a default password of TANDBERG (all upper
case). For security reasons you must change the password as soon as possible. A warning is
displayed on the web interface and the CLI if the root account has the default password set.
Cisco VCS Administrator Guide (X6.1)
Usage tips
advanced account security
Maintenance
mode.
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