Creating users for Web applications

Use these steps to create new users and assign the groups to the user, which provides with the appropriate access for accessing Jazz™ for Service Management server.

About this task

You can create one or more users. The users are added to the registry and a login account for each new user is automatically created. When creating the new user, you can also add the user as a member of one or more groups

You must add the user and groups sequentially. Use the following order.

  1. Create the users.
  2. Assign the users to the relevant groups.

Procedure

  1. Log in to Dashboard Application Services Hub portal as smadmin user.
  2. Expand Console Settings (Console settings) > WebSphere Administrative Console.
  3. Click Launch WebSphere Administrative Console.
  4. From the navigation pane, click Users and Groups > Manage Users.
  5. Click Create to create a new user.
  6. In the User ID field, type a unique name to identify the user.

    This user ID will be added to the user registry and also will be used as the login account name.

  7. In the First name field, type the given or first name of the user.
  8. In the Last name field, type the family or last name of the user.
  9. Optional: In the E-mail field, type an e-mail address for the user.
  10. In the Password and Confirm password field, type a unique password.
  11. Click Group Membership to add the user as a member of one or more existing groups.
  12. In the Search by field, select the attribute from the list that you want to use to search for one or more users. For example, select Group name.
  13. In the Search for field, either type the string that you want to search for to limit the set of groups, or use the wildcard character (*) to search for all groups. Whether the search is case sensitive or case insensitive depends on the user registry that you are using.
  14. In the Maximum results field, specify the maximum number of search results that you want to display.
  15. Click Search.
    After the search completes, the results are displayed in two lists:
    • Available - the list is for groups that matched the search criteria
    • Mapped To - the list is for groups that the user is already a member.
  16. In the Available column, select the following groups and click < Add:
    • ConsoleAdmin
    • ConsoleUser
    • ReadAdmin
    • WriteAdmin
    • dashboarduser
    • manager-gui
    • manager-jmx
    • manager-script
    • manager-status
    • npiadministrator
    • npiuser
  17. Optional: To undo or remove the user as a member, highlight the groups from the Mapped To list and then click Remove >.
  18. Click Close to return to Create a User page.
  19. Click Create.

    If successful, a message will display that indicates that the user has been created. Also, the user ID and other user information will be added to the user registry, and a new login account will be created for the user.

  20. To create another user, click Create Like.
  21. Repeat the process until all the new users have been created.