Epiphan Pearl Mini Live Video Production System - Manual (Page 157)

Pearl Mini User Guide Change the logged-in user
11. In the Viewers (group DN) field, specify the distinguished name of the group users must be part of to
be logged in as a viewer. Users must have the member or unqueMember attribute for the specified
group to be granted Viewer access.
If left blank, LDAP is not supported for Viewers (but can still be used for Administrators and Operators).
12. Click Apply .
When a user of the LDAP server next visits the admin or viewer page for the system, the system prompts for
use the username and password. For ActiveDirectory servers, the user needs to enter his fully qualified
username (i.e. username@domainname) in addition to his LDAP password.
Users are required to authenticate once to the system and one time per channel they view.
Therefore users see a prompt to log in to the system (the system name is shown) and a second
time to log in to the channel (the channel name is shown).
Change the logged-in user
After you log in to the Admin panel as an Administrator or Operator, your browser remembers this
configuration and automatically logs you in using the same user account the next time you log in to Pearl
Mini.
To log in using a different user account:
1. In the Admin panel, click the logout icon at the top right corner of the screen. A new login screen
appears.
Some browsers may require you to click twice before the you are logged out.
2. Enter the credentials that you want to use to log in to the Admin panel.
Restrict viewers by IP address
Pearl Mini permits you to restrict which computers can access broadcasts by building a list of allowed and
denied IP addresses. You can do this at a global level for the system and can also override these settings on a
per-channel basis. Both global and per-channel configuration procedures are described.
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