Specifications

Manage System
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Vision
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Operation/Reference Guide
currently detected. This list includes the name, status, channel type, and IP address of each set-top box. This
list is view-only. You can select any set-top box from the list and use the options below to change its output.
You can also use Ctrl-Click to select multiple set-top boxes and Shift-Click to select a range of set-top boxes.
The set-top box management options are as follows:
Configuring Vision
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for use with Active Directory
You can configure Vision
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to use Active Directory to authenticate users when they login to the system and to
determine access rights to Vision
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archives and services. If you intend to use Active Directory, then you must
edit the XML file web.config located in the C:\inetpub\wwwroot\v2 directory on your master server. The
contents of this file are used to impersonate a chosen user when communicating with the Active Directory
server. For this reason, the user defined by these settings must have read rights on the Active Directory server.
The file contains the following keys:
LdapUserName - The name of user to impersonate.
LdapDomain - The domain in which the Active Directory server resides
LdapPassword - The password of the user to impersonate
LdapServerURL - This is the URL for your Active Directory Server.
There is an additional key in this file called LdapUserAttributeContainingLoginName, this key contains the
name of the attribute within the user Distinguished Name (DN) which holds the value that the user supplies
when they log in. For a normal Active Directory implementation, this value is sAMAccountName.
You can also set a user group to act as Administrators, set the key AdministratorGroupName to the DN path
for the Active Directory group you want to give access, Note that the Administrator Windows NT user account
on the master server can still login as well.
An example is as follows:
<!--Start Administrator Settings-->
<add key="AdministratorsGroupName" value="CN=AMX London,OU=Security
Groups,OU=Europe,DC=amx,DC=internal" />
<!--End Administrator Settings-->
Next you must go to the User Access Control screen and change the Access Control type from NT User
Groups to LDAP
Once you have chosen LDAP authentication then any user in your organization can login to your Vision
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system using their standard username and password
Set-Top Box Management Options
Name Enter a name for the set-top box.
Rename Click to apply the edited name to the set-top box.
Move Up/Move Down Moves the selected set-top box up or down in the list.
Delete Removes the set-top box from the list.
Play Live Channel Select a live channel to play through the set-top box. Click Apply when finished
and the set-top box begins playing the live channel.
Play Video On Demand Select a video on demand to play through the set-top box. Click Apply when
finished and the selected video on demand becomes available.
You have to restart IIS on the master server / or reboot your master server after changing
access permissions from LDAP to NT User Groups or vice versa.