Configuring Allowed IPs

Configuring Allowed IPs

When you are dealing with customers' data, security is a major concern. You need to make sure that your data in Zoho CRM is not accessed from an unsecure network. You may even prefer that your employees access CRM only from the office. You can also restrict, logging in to and using Zoho CRM to specific IP Addresses only.

With the Allowed IPs feature, an administrator can add the IPs for individual users or for users in a specified role or a group. Users can log in to Zoho CRM only from these allowed IPs added by the CRM administrator. This also applies to all the other Zoho products. So if you are not able to access Zoho CRM from a specific IP, say your home office, then you will also not be able to access the other Zoho applications like Zoho Mail or Zoho Docs.

Availability
Permission Required
Users with administrative profile can access this feature.


Add Allowed IPs

As an administrator, you can add the IPs through which users of your CRM account can use to log in. You can allow only those trusted IPs from which the Zoho account can be accessed. Logging in through any other IP would give the user an "Access denied from this IP address" alert message. This restriction will also apply to login attempts from mobile devices and tablets. Additionally, APIs using the user's Authtoken will not work from the IPs that are not allowed.

To add allowed IPs

  1. Go to Setup > Users & Control >  Security Control > Allowed IPs.
  2. In the Allowed IPs page, click Add Allowed IPs.
  3. In the
     
    ConfigureAllowed IPs page, select the
     
    SourceType.
    • All Users: Select this to give all users the access to Zoho CRM from only the specified IPs.
      A common IP for all users might be your office IP that all the users access. This could be your office IP that all the users access.
    • Users: From the list, click on the users to move them to the Selected group.
      Select users for whom you want to allow CRM access only through certain specified IPs.
    • Groups: From the list, click on the groups to move them to the Selected group.
      All the users in the selected group will have access to CRM only through the specified IPs.
    • Roles: From the list, click on the roles to move them to the Selected group.
      All the users in the selected role will have access to CRM only through the specified IPs.
  4. Click the Add IPs link.
    Your current IP address will be added, by default.
  5. In the Add IP popup, select the IP Type and enter the IP.
    • Static IP: Enter a valid IP.
    • IP Range: Enter the NetworkIP and SubnetMask.
      You can contact your internet service Provider for the Network IP and Subnet Mask.
    • Already Added IPs: Select already added IPs from the drop-down list.

      • Enter a Name for the IP configuration, if required.
      • Click AddIP.
    • Click Save.
Note
  • You can add upto 10 IPs for a single entry or user.
  • You can configure multiple entries or users.

Remove Allowed IPs

You can remove the added IPs whenever you need. If a user is not part of any IP restriction, then the user will be allowed to access CRM from any IP. Make sure that you do not delete your own IP from the Allowed IPs list.

To remove allowed IPs

  1. Go to Setup > Users & Control >  Security Control > AllowedIPs.
  2. In the Allowed IPs page, hover your mouse pointer on an entry and click the Edit link.
  3. In the ConfigureAllowed IPs page, hover your mouse pointer on an allowed IP and click the Remove link.
  4. Click Save.

To remove a single IPs from the list of allowed IPs

  1. Go to Setup > Users & Control > Security Control > Allowed IPs.
  2. In the Allowed IPs page, hover your mouse pointer on an entry and click the Delete link.
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