Security administrators and security tools

Content Cortex provides the following important security roles:

• Global configuration database (GCD) administrators (gcd_admin) create Content Cortex domain resources like object stores and fixed content devices.
• Object store administrators (object_store_admin) create file storage areasadd or manage recovery bins, classes, folders, security policies and other object store resources. The GCD administrator is not automatically also an object store administrator, although GCD administrators can grant themselves this additional role.

Content Cortex provides the following tools for configuring security:

Administration Console for Content Platform Engine

This is the tool that system administrators use in their daily work. Administration Console for Content Platform Engine gives system administrators easy access to most of the administrative and security features needed for Content Platform Engine security configuration tasks, including assign access rights to workflow rosters, work queues, and user queues.

IBM® Content Navigator

The security context for the default client application is defined and maintained by a combination of Content Platform Engine and IBM Content Navigator. Consider the following examples:

• Object security (documents, folders, custom objects, events) is maintained by Content Platform Engine.
• IBM Content Navigator also makes use of rosters, queues, and other workflow-related objects that are created and maintained as a part of Content Platform Engine security.