System options, Security – Axis Communications 209 FD-R M12 User Manual

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AXIS 209FD/FD-R/FD-R M12

System Options

Security

User access control is enabled by default. An administrator can set up other new users, by giving them user

names and passwords. It is also possible to allow anonymous viewer login, which means that anybody may

access the Live View page, as described below:

Users - the user list displays the authorized users and user groups (levels):

To prevent unauthorized use of the product, the AXIS 209FD network camera supports multi-user password

protection, where access can be restricted to a defined number of users only (maximum of 20).

The AXIS 209FD Network Camera supports different methods of user authentication. These are:

• HTTP Basic Authentication - This authenticates the user by requesting a user name and a pass-

word. The exchange of network credentials is in simple base64 coding and is not encrypted.

• HTTP Digest Authentication - This method also requests a user name and password, but the

exchange of credentials is encrypted, which better secures it against eavesdropping.

User Settings - check the relevant checkboxes to enable:

Anonymous viewer login - allows any viewer direct access to the Live View page.
Maximu

m number of simultaneous viewers - enter a value here to restrict the number of Motion

JPEG and MPEG-4 viewers accessing the unit. This is useful if you need to save on bandwidth.

Note that within the limit of 20 users, all multicast viewers count as 1 viewer.

IP Address Filter
Enable IP Address Filtering
to allow or deny access to the AXIS 209FD/FD-R/FD-R M12. Once enabled, the

IP addresses in the list will be allowed or denied access according to the choice made in the drop-down list

Allow/Deny the following IP addresses.

The administrator can add up to 256 IP address entries to the list (a single entry can contain multiple IP

addresses). The users from these IP addresses need to be specified in the user list with the appropriate access

rights. This is done from Setup > System Options > Security > Users.

Referrals
To prevent unauthorized clients from including the video stream from the cameras into external Web pages,

check the Referrals box option 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 (;). This option is only applicable to Motion JPEG video streams.

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 filter-

ing 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.

HTTPS
The AXIS 209FD/FD-R/FD-R M12 supports encrypted browsing using HTTPS.

Viewer

Provides the lowest level of access, which only allows access to the Live View page.

Operator

An Operator can view the Live View page, create and modify events and adjust certain other
settings. Operators have no access to the System Options.

Administrator

An administrator has unrestricted access to the Setup Tools and can determine the registration of
all other users.

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