System information

Configuring Web Publishing Service 399
Web Server Options Tab
The Web Server Options tab contains the following items:
• “Request password to access Web reporting” checkbox—if selected, allows you to set
a password for accessing the Web Publishing Service facility. If password protection
is on, each user will have to enter a password to gain access to the reporting facility.
If the Web Publishing Service has not been configured to require a
password, all of the trending data enabled during Web Publishing Service
configuration will be available to anyone with TCP/IP connectivity to the
Observer PC.
• Set password button—only active if the “Request Password to access Web reporting”
checkbox is selected. Clicking on the Set Password button displays the Set Web
Access Password dialog.
• “Run Web server as Windows 2000/XP service” checkbox—if Web Extension has
been installed on a copy of Observer running under Windows 2000/XP, checking this
box will make the Web server a Windows service, causing it to run whenever the
Observer PC is started.
Changes to the Web server’s status as a service will take place the next time
that the Observer PC is rebooted.