Ras Server; Planning To Connect To One Unit At A Time; Figure 3-14 Transparently Connecting To A Rapid Eye Through A Ras Server - Honeywell Rapid Eye System Administration Manual

RAS Server

Planning to Connect to One Unit at a Time

Operator's station,
running the View
application
Document 800-07769 Rev A
02/11
There are two ways of connecting to Multi-Media units when using a Remote Access
Service (RAS) server. You can connect to:
• Only one RAS-dependent unit at a time. A RAS server can be transparent to users of
View by adding RAS server information to the site definition. This is ideal when there is
only one Multi-Media unit on the network using the RAS server. See
• Many units at once. Users dial-up the RAS server before using View. This is discussed
in
Using a RAS Server Before Connecting to Units
For both cases, a RAS is set up on a server that can access networked Rapid Eye
Multi-Media units.
You can use View to automatically connect to the site. A user has to end sessions with the
unit before using another unit on that same network. From a security point of view, the View
operator does not need to know the RAS username and password.
A Connection that Behaves Like Dial-Up
A session request behaves just as if you had reached the site's Multi-Media unit by
connecting directly to it by dial-up. Such a connection behaves as if it were a simple dial-up
connection. Two dial-up sites cannot be used at the same time with one modem. Sessions
to a dial-up site have to be closed before using another dial-up site.
What Your Network Administrator Needs
Multi-Media sessions (live, retrieval and alarm) are sent to port 10,000. This port should be
left open in your organization's firewall for the sockets used by Multi-Media units.
Figure 3-14 Transparently Connecting to a Rapid Eye Through a RAS Server
Modem
Note When overriding PPP in the definition
of a site, the other network's RAS
server is transparent to an operator.
The site responds as it would with a
dial-up connection.
Rapid Eye DVR System Administrator Guide
on page 55.
POTS or ISDN
Modem
RAS server, on
another LAN
Figure 3-14.
Rapid Eye
READY Multi-Media
ALARM
HDD
unit
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