Logins

A login in TNI consists of a username and password (or a community string for SNMP), which are used to access remote assets during scanning.

Managing Storage logins

Each TNI Storage may contain logins for each of the following protocols: Windows, SSH, SNMP, and VMWare.

To view and manage these logins, switch to the Default Logins mode, which is usually located near the end of the tab bar.

By default, there are only two standard logins:

Current user: the login credentials of the Windows user running TNI;
Common communities: public SNMP community.

The standard logins cannot be changed or deleted.

To create a new login for one of the protocols, click the Add button below that protocol’s list.

When adding a new login, you must also specify an alias along with the username and password (or community string for SNMP). An alias is a unique identifier that will be used when working with a particular login in TNI. Aliases allow you to add multiple logins with the same username.

The new login appears in the list for its protocol.

To edit a username or password, click on its field in the list. To change an alias, double-click it.

You can specify the default login for each protocol by clicking the options button to the left of the corresponding protocol. This login will be used when scanning assets for which no login have been specified explicitly.

Logins can be added and edited in the Scanner mode right before scanning. For details, see the Managing added tasks – Setting logins section.

Assigning logins to network nodes

If a network node is always scanned with the same login, you can assign that login to the node.

To do this, select the asset in the Network tree, switch to the Logins mode, which is usually located near the end of the tab bar.

All logins for the protocols that can be used to scan the selected asset are displayed. To assign one of them to the asset, click the small chain icon to the left of the alias. The linked chain icon and blue highlighting indicate that this login is assigned to the selected asset.

Any login can be assigned to several network nodes at once. To do this, select the nodes or their group in the Network tree, then click the chain icon next to the login in the list.

When remote assets are scanned for the first time, logins that successfully access them are automatically assigned to those assets.