Host Regional Assignments

The GlobalViewer® Host Regional Assignments function gives you the ability to set up an entire A/V network, and provide some users with GlobalViewer access to the entire network, and limited, or regional, GlobalViewer access to other users.

Example

The diagram below illustrates a small university whose A/V network spans four different buildings.  The Host Regional Assignments have been set up so that the following rules apply:

  1. Users who have access to the GlobalViewer host device in the Campus Administration Building are able to monitor and control devices across the entire A/V network.

  2. Users who have access to the GlobalViewer host device in the School of Business Building can only monitor and control the A/V devices in the School of Business Building.

  3. Users who have access to the GlobalViewer host device in the School of Engineering Building can only monitor and control the A/V devices in the School of Engineering Building.

  4. Users who have access to the GlobalViewer host device in the School of Medicine Building can only monitor and control the A/V devices in the School of Medicine Building.

By using the Host Regional Assignments function, you can assign global or regional access to the devices on your A/V network.  The Host Regional Assignments function is flexible enough to set up any type of regional access scenario based on your A/V network configuration.

To create Host Regional Assignments:

  1. Click the GlobalViewer® tab in the IP Link® Tree window.

  2. Set the desired device locations in the GlobalViewer Designer section (right pane).

See Device Locations.

  1. Click the GlobalViewer® Host Regional Assignments button in the right pane.

The GlobalViewer Host Regional Assignments dialog box opens (see below).

  1. Drag each desired location (left column) to each desired GlobalViewer host device (right column).

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Select a location (left column) and a GlobalViewer host (right column).  Then, click the Assign (right arrow) button.

Note:  By default, if no locations are assigned to a GlobalViewer host, it will have access to ALL locations.

Example

In the example below:

  • GlobalViewer host, System 5 IP / Administration, has not been assigned a location, so by default, it has a global view of ALL locations.

  • GlobalViewer host, System 5 IP / Business, has been assigned access to only the A/V devices in the Business Building.

  • GlobalViewer host, System 5 IP / Engineering, has been assigned access to only the A/V devices in the Engineering Building.

  • GlobalViewer host, System 5 IP / Medicine, has been assigned access to only the A/V devices in the Medicine Building.

To view a GlobalViewer page:

  1. Open an Internet browser.

  2. Enter the IP address of a GlobalViewer host in the browser's Address field.

  3. Press the Enter key on your keyboard.

Example

In the example below, we entered the IP address of System 5 IP / Administration which has a global view of all devices, so all of the GlobalViewer host locations are viewable.

If we had entered the IP address of the Business, Engineering, or Medicine Building host device, we would only have access to the folder for the respective building.