How to: Manage credentials

Last modified: Tuesday January 17, 2023.

When Aware connects and communicates with your cameras, it needs to know the user name and password for each device.

Manage the credentials that Aware uses to communicate with your cameras.

For Avigilon Ava cloud-native cameras, Alta Aware automatically generates rotating credentials that are changed hourly.

For Avigilon Ava cameras connected to an Alta Cloud Connector, you can choose to use automatically generated credentials, or you can define the credentials yourself.
For more information, see: How to: Configure credential options for your Ava cameras

Prerequisites

Make sure you have access to the user names and passwords for all cameras to be connected to Aware.

Task — Manage camera credentials

  1. Choose Tools Open a tool > Devices Devices.
  2. Click Configure Credentials.
  3. Click Add new credentials Add new.
  4. In the new credentials fields, type the Username and Password to be used by Aware when connecting to cameras.

    Be aware that some makes and models of camera require several sets of credentials, with different details needed to log on to the device, or to log on to the Onvif profile.

  5. Type useful information in the Comments field, for example, Applies to all <xyz> cameras.
  6. Click Done.

Task — Manage Wi-Fi credentials

  1. Choose Tools Open a tool > Devices Devices.
  2. Click Configure Credentials.
    If your Aware deployment does not include any Alta Cloud Connectors, this button is named Wi-Fi Credentials.
  3. If given the option, select Wi-Fi.
  4. Click Add new credentials Add new.
  5. Type the SSID, choose the security method, and type the Password for the Wi-Fi connection.
  6. Add any relevant Notes, for example, Engineering building Wi-Fi network.
  7. Click Done.