Finisar Surveyor manual Resource Protection, Remote User Privileges, Privilege Description

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Remote Resources

Hovering the mouse over a top-level node which has an alias displays the name with the IP Address in parenthesis along with the optional comment. For example, “Chicago Node One (192.1.68.2). This is Mount Prospect node”.

Resource Protection

You are in control of local resources within a PC. Use the functions on the Host menu to add and delete users for a resource, change passwords and protections, or view the users currently logged in. There is a guest account for users with no account. The guest user can be given all privileges to effectively disable resource protection.

Note that there is no password protection for starting Surveyor on the local system. If you can start Surveyor from a system, you automatically have complete access to all local resources (called super-user privileges).

To access a remote resource, you must have an account and password set up on the remote system containing the resource or use the guest account.

Privileges for remote users can be set to those described in Table 5-1 below:

	Table 5-1. Remote User Privileges
Privilege	Description
Monitor Only	Allows a remote user to use the local device to monitor network activ-
	ity only. You can access real-time monitor views on an armed (started)
	module, but cannot start/stop a module or define/load a filter.
Capture/Monitor	Allows a remote user to use the local device to monitor activity or cap-
	ture network data. You can perform all Monitor Only functions, capture
	data, and perform full seven-layer decode on the packets. You can
	start/stop a module, define/load a filter, and edit the contents of pack-
	ets.
Full	Allows a remote user to use the local device to monitor activity, cap-
	ture network data, or transmit network data. You can perform all Cap-
	ture/Monitor functions plus all traffic generation capabilities available
	through Surveyor.
Super User	Allows a remote user the ability to transmit, capture, or monitor, plus
	set up, delete, and change accounts for the local PC. You have Full
	access plus the ability to configure a deployed THGs, change the
	access table, and unlock any locked module. Be careful when granting
	super-user privileges to remote users. This gives remote users com-
	plete control of your local resource.

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