AXISA1601NetworkDoorController
Findthedeviceonthenetwork
Findthedeviceonthenetwork
TondAxisdevicesonthenetworkandassignthemIPaddressesinWindows®,useAXISIPUtilityorAXISDeviceManager.Both
applicationsarefreeandcanbedownloadedfromaxis.com/support.
FormoreinformationabouthowtondandassignIPaddresses,seethedocumentHowtoassignanIPaddressandaccessyour
deviceonthedevicepageataxis.com.
Accessthedevice
1.OpenabrowserandentertheIPaddressorhostnameoftheAxisdevice.
IfyoudonotknowtheIPaddress,useAXISIPUtilityorAXISDeviceManagertondthedeviceonthenetwork.Ifyou
haveaMaccomputer(OSX),gotoSafari,clickBonjourandselectthedevicefromthedrop-downlist.
2.Entertheusernameandpassword.Ifyouaccessthedeviceforthersttime,youmustsettherootpassword.See.
3.Thedevice’swebpageopensinyourbrowser.ThestartpageiscalledtheOverviewpage.
Howtoaccesstheproductfromtheinternet
Anetworkrouterallowsproductsonaprivatenetwork(LAN)toshareasingleconnectiontotheinternet.Thisisdonebyforwarding
networktrafcfromtheprivatenetworktotheinternet.
Mostroutersarepre-conguredtostopattemptstoaccesstheprivatenetwork(LAN)fromthepublicnetwork(internet).
IftheAxisproductislocatedonanintranet(LAN)andyouwanttomakeitavailablefromtheother(WAN)sideofaNAT(Network
AddressTranslator)router,turnonNATtraversal.WithNATtraversalproperlycongured,allHTTPtrafctoanexternalHTTPport
intheNATrouterisforwardedtotheproduct.
HowtoturnontheNAT-traversalfeature
•GotoSetup>AdditionalControllerConguration>SystemOptions>Network>TCP/IP>Advanced.
•ClickEnable.
•ManuallycongureyourNATroutertoallowaccessfromtheinternet.
Note
•Inthiscontext,a“router”referstoanynetworkroutingdevicesuchasaNATrouter,networkrouter,internetgateway,
broadbandrouter,broadbandsharingdevice,orasoftwaresuchasarewall.
•ForNATtraversaltowork,NATtraversalmustbesupportedbytherouter.TheroutermustalsosupportUPnP
®
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Securepasswords
Important
Axisdevicessendtheinitiallysetpasswordincleartextoverthenetwork.Toprotectyourdeviceaftertherstlogin,set
upasecureandencryptedHTTPSconnectionandthenchangethepassword.
Thedevicepasswordistheprimaryprotectionforyourdataandservices.Axisdevicesdonotimposeapasswordpolicyasthey
maybeusedinvarioustypesofinstallations.
Toprotectyourdatawestronglyrecommendthatyou:
•Useapasswordwithatleast8characters,preferablycreatedbyapasswordgenerator.
•Don’texposethepassword.
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