Region Passwords
Overview
Typically passwords on a DCT are specific to each device. Alternately, passwords can now be specified on Connect for an entire region and all the DCTs in that Region's areas will use the setup and engineering password specified. Not all regions in a company need to use a regional password, a mixed approach can be used.
Steps involved:
- Regions are set up on the Areas tab of Connect
- DCTs need to be updated to v1.69.87 or newer
- Note that a region can still have DCTs that have older software, but those DCTs won't get the password change update. The current password on all devices can still be viewed, see "Viewing passwords" below
- The regional password is set
- The password will propagate to the region's DCTs
Creating Password
Go to the Areas Page
Go to the Regions tab
Select Region and edit passwords
Upon setting region passwords, a message is sent to the units in the region to update their passwords.
Viewing Passwords
Go to the Passwords tab
The passwords page shows all the passwords for all the units in a single table. Each unit shows its actual last-reported passwords along with the desired region passwords. The region password can differ from the current password because the software version is too old to support region passwords, or the unit has not managed to update to the latest region password yet. Units with old software versions will have to be updated to use remote passwords.
How it works
When the region password is updated, a message is sent to device to update the password. If the unit successfully updates it will acknowledge that the password has been changed and the server will update the "Current Password" to match the new password.
Permissions
There are three types of users on the site:
- Administrators
- Normal company users (everyone else who works for the company but isn't an administrator)
- Guests (e.g. location customers)
Optionally, the editing of passwords and displaying of the engineering password can be restricted to the admin users. If this is done then normal company users can only view the setup password. Separately, the guests can never see either password.
