Set up IP Address Restrictions in Lighthouse Transaction Manager

Description: In Lighthouse Transaction Manager (LTM), you can specify certain IP addresses that are allowed to connect and use the account. This will bar any unwanted IP addresses from accessing the account. 

Important: There is a risk of locking your account out by doing this should your Network Router IP Schema change or if your PCs aren't assigned Static IPs, as the PCs would no longer be assigned the required IPs to connect.

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Getting Started

To activate this feature:

1. Log into your LTM Account Administrator user.
2. Navigate to the Settings tab.
3. Select IP Address Restrictions.
   

Once there, you will be on the IP Address Restrictions Setup Page.

• IP Address Restrictions Slots: This allows you to limit the number of IPs that can access LTM. If blank, there is no limit.
• IP Address Restrictions List [Required]: The list of IPs allowed to connect to your LTM account.
• IP Address Override Assignment Rights [Required]: This lets you choose what access level of user can assign privileges to other users to override this restriction. The default setting is for the Account Administrator user.

To populate automatically as users connect, complete the following steps:

• On the IP Address Restrictions page, in the IP Address Restriction Slots field, enter the maximum number of slots you want to allow for IP Address. 
  • Slots are the number of available spaces that you allow for IP addresses to be automatically inserted. 
• As users sign in to LTM, their IP addresses are added to the IP Address Restriction List.
  • When there are as many IP addresses as the number of slots specified, no other address will be able to connect to your LTM account unless the Account Administrator increases the number of slots. 

For example, if you allow six slots but have seven locations where users might sign in to LTM, one of the locations will be locked out and cannot connect to LTM.

To create a manual list of IP addresses, complete the following steps:

1. From the menu, select Settings > IP Address Restrictions.
2. In the IP Address Restrictions Slots field, enter the number of IP addresses you want to allow.
3. In the IP Address Restriction List field, enter the IP addresses that you want to allow separated by a comma (For example, 1.2.3.4,1.2.4.6) or leave the list blank, and the system will dynamically populate the list as users sign in.

To create a manual range of permitted IP addresses, complete the following steps:

1. From the menu, select Settings > IP Address Restrictions.
2. In the IP Address Restrictions Slots field, enter a value of 1.
3. In the IP Address Restriction List field, enter the IP address range using the following format:
   • Examples:
     • 1.2.3.* – This would provide 256 IP addresses with a range of 1.2.3.0 to 1.2.3.255
     • 1.2.* – This would provide 65536 IP addresses with a range of 1.2.0.0 to 1.2.255.255

Bypass Exception

You can set up optional permissions to Bypass IP Address Restrictions on your Account Administrator User. This way, if this should ever occur, you can log in and clear the restriction list.