Admin Login

Normal Login

Admin Login is accessed from the System Menu by right clicking in the background of the browser interface.

When you are logged in as administrator additional options are available in the System Menu and Device Menu.

There will be black outline surrounding the browser window when you are logged in as the administrator.

In IntraVUE 2.0, the default admin password for IntraVUE is the same as the admin password for the Apache Tomcat Manager, intravue.

Changing the Admin Password

The password is set in a file in the IntraVUE installation folder ...\Intravue\AutoIP\tomcat5\conf, named tomcat-users.xml. Find the XML tag that starts with "user" and contains a username of "admin". The password entry is the password for both the tomcat manager and IntraVUE, as shown below.

 <user username="admin" password="intravue" roles="admin,manager" /> 

If security is any concern, please edit this file and change the password from the default of "intravue".

Security is provided by limiting access to the IntraVUE host. With IntraVUE 2's remote administration capabilities, there is no need to have physical access to the host computer. The directories where security information is configured are not accessible from the web interface.

Adding Username and Password protection to the IntraVUE application

The Apache Tomcat web server that provides the user interface for IntraVUE can be configured to require a username and password before a user can see the IntraVUE web page.

The first step is to add security data to the file ...\intravue\AutoIP\tomcat5\webapps\iv2\WEB-INF\web.xml. Copy the lines below and insert them at the end of the file, just before the closing </web-app> line.

    <!-- Define a Security Constraint on this Application --> 
    <security-constraint> 
        <web-resource-collection> 
            <web-resource-name>Intravue Application</web-resource-name> 
            <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern> 
        </web-resource-collection> 
        <auth-constraint>
            <!-- NOTE: This role is not present in the defaugt users file --> 
            <role-name>intravue</role-name> 
        </auth-constraint>

    </security-constraint>
    <!-- Define the Login Configuration for this Application --> 
    <login-config> 
        <auth-method>BASIC</auth-method> 
        <realm-name>Intravue Application</realm-name> 
    </login-config>

    <!-- Security roles referenced by this web application --> 
    <security-role> 
        <description> The role that is required to log in to the intravue Application </description> 
        <role-name>intravue</role-name> 
    </security-role> 
    
</web-app>  NOTE: do not copy this line.  Insert just before this line in the file

The above will require the user to login as the 'role-name' intravue. Role-names are defined in the file tomcat-users.xml, described above. The role 'intravue' is already defined in that file and has a username of intravue and a password of intravue.

If you are going through this process then you really want security that anyone reading this help file will not be able to break.

Therefore, you should edit the tomcat-users.xml file and add a new role. The two line below can be added to this file and will create a new role named 'remote' and this role will have a username of remoteUser and a password of intravue2

  <role rolename="remote"/>
  
  <user username="remoteUser" password="intravue2" roles="remote"/>

To complete the process edit the data in the lines in the sample above and change the lines starting with to have the role 'remote' rather than 'intravue'. Then restart the Windows service "Apache Tomcat eTomcat".

Anyone logging in will now be required to use a username and password to login.

Note: You may create as many username and password combinations for the role remote as you like by adding additional <user.. lines to the tomcat-users.xml file.