Axis Communications AXIS FD-R M12 System Options, Security, IP Address Filter, Referrals

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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):

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.

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.

•Maximum 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.