Automatically register unknown clients

When you enable the Automatically Register Unknown Clients feature, any client that has the AnywhereUSB Manager can automatically connect to your Hub. When this happens, the client ID  is added to the Hub's client list in the Hub's configuration.

Note This feature is inherently insecure. Digi recommends that you disable the Automatically Register Unknown Clients option and manually add client IDs to the list. See Manually add a client ID.

To confirm that a client ID has been added automatically, you can review the client ID list.

Specify groups for an automatically registered client

You can specify the groups which the automatically-registered clients can access. If you do not specify groups in the auto-register feature, you can manually configure group access to the client.

By default, the client will have access to the ports in the groups specified in the Group Access field. To ensure that the automatically registered clients are given access to the desired ports, you should verify which ports are assigned to each group.

If needed, you can change the groups for the client in the Hub configuration after the client ID has been registered.

  1. Open the web UI.

  2. Select System > AnywhereUSB Configuration. The AnywhereUSB Configuration page appears.
  3. Scroll down to the Client Settings section. Expand the section if it is not already expanded.
  4. Scroll down to the Settings for Unknown Clients section.
  5. Enable Automatically Register Unknown Clients.
  6. Determine whether groups should automatically be assigned to the automatically registered users.

    Click the check box next to the group(s) to which the computer is allowed access. As you select groups, the selected group numbers appear in the Group Access field in the

    Settings for Unknown Clients section. You can also manually enter group numbers in the Group Access field.

    Note If you do not specify groups you can manually give that client access to selected groups after they have been registered with the Hub. See Configure a client ID.

  7.  Click Apply to save the changes.