If you have the permissions that are required to edit users in API Connect, you can add
users to your provider organization, remove users, assign roles and perform other user
administration tasks.
About this task
There are two ways to add a user:
- Invite member - send an invitation email with an activation link that
enables the user to complete the addition operation.
- Add member - specify the user and add them as a member of the provider
organization immediately.
Procedure
- To send an email invitation to a new user to register as a member of the provider
organization, complete the following steps:
- In the navigation pane of the API Manager user interface, click
Members.
- Click .
- Enter the email address of the user.
- Select the roles that you want to assign to the user.
- Click Invite.
- To specify the user and add them as a member of the Admin
organization immediately, complete the following steps:
- In the navigation pane of the API Manager user interface, click
Members.
- Click .
- Select the required user registry.
Note: For a user registry to be available in the selection list, one of the following conditions
must be satisfied:
- The visibility of the user registry is set to Public.
- The visibility of the user registry is set to Custom, and the specified
list of provider organizations includes the one to which you are adding the user.
For more information, see
Setting visibility for a user registry.
The remaining procedure varies according to the type of the selected user registry, as
follows:
- Local User Registry
- Select whether the user is an Existing user or a New
User.
- For an existing user, complete the following steps:
- Enter the name of an existing API Connect user that has
previously been invited to register and has activated their account.
- Select the roles that you want to assign to the user, then click Add. The
user is added and their membership is immediately enabled. The specified user can log in to the API Manager user interface.
- For a new user, complete the following steps:
- Enter a unique user name for the new user.
- Supply an email address, name details, and a password.
- Select the roles that you want to assign to the user, then click Add. The
user account is created, and the user membership is immediately enabled. The specified user can log
in to the API Manager user
interface.
- LDAP
- Enter the name of a user that exists in the selected user registry.
- Select the roles that you want to assign to the user, then click Add. The
user is added, and the user membership is immediately enabled. The specified user can log in to the
API Manager user interface
with their LDAP user name.
- Authentication URL and OIDC
- Enter the name of an existing API Connect user that has
previously been invited to register and has activated their account.
- Select the roles that you want to assign to the user, then click Add. The
user is added, and the user membership is immediately enabled. The specified user can log in to the
API Manager user
interface.
Results
The user is added to the list of provider organization members. If an email invitation was sent, the status is shown as
Pending until the recipient of the email clicks the link in the email to complete the
creation of their account, after which the status changes to Enabled.
What to do next
The new user can access the API Manager user interface. The
user's authorization within API Manager is defined by the
roles that are assigned to them.