ProSoft Technology ProSoft i-View - Manual (Page 71)

ProSoft i-View ♦ Mobile Process Monitoring and Control Application User Accounts
Version 2.0.2 User Manual
ProSoft Technology, Inc. Page 71 of 106
September 29, 2011
6 User Accounts
In This Chapter
Restrictions for Non-Administrator Users .............................................. 72
Managing Accounts ............................................................................... 73
User accounts allow the administrator to determine which process variables will be visible
or editable for a particular use or user depending on specific variable attributes. Relevant
attributes for this purpose are Access and Write_access. See Attributes (page 24).
Only users who have an access level equal to or greater than the one set for a particular
variable will be able to view or edit it.
The purpose of user accounts is to make it possible for a PLC program developer or
integrator to create a pre-configured solution for a particular customer and limit that
customer's ability to change the application. An end user does not usually need to
change communication settings or modify attributes. This is normally a developer’s
responsibility. Therefore, by setting user accounts and keeping the administrator
password private, a developer can choose to provide customized, safe access to a
monitored process.
User accounts can also help prevent unauthorized persons from interacting with remote
processes by getting physical access to an iPhone with ProSoft i-View installed.
Two accounts are set up by default with the following names, passwords and access
levels:
USER PASSWORD ACCESS
administrator admin 9
nobody 0
The administrator account allows you to create additional accounts with intermediate
access levels, as well as to select active accounts.
It is strongly recommended that you change the default passwords once you have a
running configuration in place. Note that there is no way to retrieve a lost password. The
only way to recreate the original passwords is to remove ProSoft i-View from your iPhone
or iTunes and reinstall from the App Store. Be sure your source files are conveniently
backed up, in case you should ever need to do this.