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Security Capabilities

Before you use the Remote Viewer, review the security capabilities that CA Automation Point and the Windows operating system provide.

CA Automation Point provides the following security capabilities, which allow you to set up a secure environment for using the Remote Viewing Dialog:

• You can list the IP names and IP addresses that can access CA Automation Point using the Trusted Remote Host Names edit box. Doing so prevents all other workstations from accessing the CA Automation Point server.

  You can choose the TCP/IP port number (the supplied default or one of your own) that the remote workstation uses when accessing CA Automation Point. Using a port number ensures that all TCP/IP communication to the CA Automation Point server from the Remote Viewer is done from within your sites firewall.

• To protect the transmission of data between CA Automation Point and the Remote Viewer workstation, encryption is provided for the logon (user ID and password), command, keyboard, and display packets. This function eliminates the sniffing of packets.
• You can set up a login ID and password for the Remote Viewer to use when connecting to CA Automation Point. The logon ID and password can be the same as those used for Windows (defined for your CA Automation Point server), or can be defined by Windows at the domain level. If the logon ID and password are defined at the domain level, Remote Viewers can connect to multiple CA Automation Point sessions with the same logon ID and password.
• You can configure the Single Sign-on feature which allows remote connection to an Automation Point server without the need to retype login credentials.
• You can specify session-level access permissions by using a combination of values set in your session definition set and User and Permission GUI facilities that are part of the Windows system.

  Note: For information about session-level access permissions, see the section Global and Local Session Settings.

• You can view any logon failures and connection attempts by illegal IP addresses using the Windows Security Event log on the CA Automation Point server.