User manual

Sensorsoft Alert User Manual
Alert web interface
Accounts and passwords
The Sensorsoft Alert web interface uses two accounts for access rights. The first account’s username is
admin and while you are logged in with this account, you will have full rights to change all settings. The
second account’s username is ruser (read-only user) and while you are logged in with this account, you
will only be able to view the “View Monitor List” page along with a limited number of other informational
pages. The initial web login password for each account is begin. To learn how to change these passwords,
refer to section Changing Web Login Passwords. To learn how to reset a lost web login password, refer to
section Recovering from a Lost Web Administrator Password.
Logging into the Alert web interface
Sensorsoft Alert can be controlled through your web browser. When you login to Alert using your web
browser, you will be asked to enter a username and password.
1. Determine the IP address or domain name of the Alert appliance.
2. Type this IP address (or domain name) into the Address box of your web browser, as shown in Figure
1 below, and press Enter
3. In the Username field type in admin or ruser, and in the Password field type in begin (the default) or
the current password.
4. Click the login button.
Onced logged in, Sensorsoft Alert will automatically record the login event to the log file webaccess.log.
To learn more about webaccess.log, please refer to section Logging Data.
Figure 1: Alert web interface login page
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