User authentication

TMeter Service Monitor can act as an authentication agent (besides monitoring features) for TMeter Service. In this case, it is installed on remote computers and it monitors the host running TMeter Service.

There are the following reasons why you should use the user authentication in TMeter:

• To view the traffic counters on remote computers
• To count the traffic by username in DHCP-based network
• To prevent IP- or MAC- addresses "spoofing" by users

To setup the user authentication in TMeter, you should perform tasks in TMeter Administrative Console and in TMeter Service Monitor.

Settings for TMeter Administrative Console

Start TMeter Administrative Console and go to "Users" panel. Create new user and choose proper authentication mode (Native authentication mode or Windows domain authentication mode). Assign (if it is required) for newly created user permissions for remote monitoring counters of corresponding filters. Next, you can use a name of the user for creating the traffic filters to count the traffic by username.

Settings for TMeter Service Monitor

• Install TMeter Service Monitor on remote computer (it is not neseccary to install full TMeter package, please select the option "Only tool for remote managment TMeter Service" during installation).
• Right click on TMeter Service Monitor icon in the system tray and select "Options..." in popup menu. Enter IP address or hostname running TMeter Service in the invoked dialog window.
• Select "User Credentials..." in the same popup menu and select the authentication mode (enter username and password for TMeter Native authentication mode).

In case of the successful authentication, an arrow of TMeter icon in the system tray will flash as the follows:

 Note

• It is strongly recommended to setup the password for opening TMeter Service configuration
• Remote computer should always run TMeter Service Monitor, otherwise the user will not be authenticated.

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