The Access control tab located on the driver screen provides the ability to select which assets the driver will be able to access. By default, all new drivers added to the organization may operate all new or certain selected assets in the organization. The default can be changed in the organization settings.
To specify which assets a driver may access, follow the steps detailed below:
- Click on Monitor.
- Under Fleet Admin, click on Drivers.
- Search for the relevant driver, using the search feature.
Click on the image to view it in full screen if the article is open in your browser:
- Click on the green hyperlinked name of the driver, or click on the downward-facing actions arrow and select Edit.
- Click on the Access control tab on the left.
Assets operable - indicates the number of assets the driver may access. Total Assets - indicates the total amount of assets in the organization.
Click on the image to view it in full screen if the article is open in your browser:
- Check the box if this driver may operate selected assets and all new assets in the organization. This will write a blacklist to the blue driver plug or the unit depending on config setup.
- Click on the plus to expand the view of the list of assets in the organization to only select certain assets.
- A check in the box indicates that the driver will be able to access all assets in that group or site.
- An empty square indicates that none of the assets in that specific group or site will be accessible.
- A partially checked box within the selection box indicates that only certain selected assets in that specific group or site are accessible to this driver.
Understanding whitelisting and blacklisting
For FM units, users can decide whether to store the driver list on the blue driver plug or on the mobile device's onboard computer.
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When you select the checkbox, "This driver may operate selected assets and all new assets in this organization", a blacklist is written to the blue driver plug or the onboard computer. Any vehicles on this blacklist cannot be started by the driver. There is 1 driver ID and 50 vehicle IDs written to the plug. The blacklist can be empty.
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When the "This driver may operate selected assets and all new assets in this organization" checkbox is not checked, a whitelist is written to the plug or unit.In this case, only vehicles on the whitelist can be started by the driver. There must be at least one asset in the whitelist or the driver will not be able to operate any assets.
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The blacklist contains specified assets that the driver may not access.
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The whitelist contains assets that the driver is allowed to access.
- Remember to generate the driver plug using the Plug Management Utility or that you must upload the event configuration to the on-board computer after changing the list for unit based access control.
Please note:
Changing the driver access details in Fleet Admin when the associated asset is utilizing unit-based access control will cause the asset to move to a "Config Changed" status.
This change can be made either in Fleet Admin/Assets/Access Control or Fleet Admin/Driver/Access Control to either add/remove drivers on an asset or add/remove assets to a driver.
If you use access control for immobilization, you need to set up an immobilizer in your config via the mobile device template.