Granting full administrative access to appliance system settings and IBM MQ

In this scenario, user Alice is granted full administrative access to the appliance and to IBM® MQ.

About this task

There are two different ways that you can grant Alice the user access that she requires:

You can create a privileged local user account for Alice
You can add Alice as a user to a user group that grants full administrative access.

In this scenario, we use the IBM MQ Appliance web UI for all tasks, and assume that you are the admin user.

Procedure

To create a privileged local user account, complete the following steps:
1. Start the IBM MQ Appliance web UI, and click the administration icon .
2. Select Access > User Account.
3. Click Add.
4. Enter a name for the user account, in this case enter Alice.
5. Specify an initial password for Alice.
6. Select the access level Privileged.
7. Click Apply to create the user account.
To create a user group with administrative access, and add Alice to it, complete the following steps:
1. Start the IBM MQ Appliance web UI, and click the administration icon .
2. Select Access > User Group.
3. Click Add.
4. Enter a name for the user group, in this case enter Administrators.
5. Specify the following access policy in the access profile:
```
*/*/*?Access=r+w+a+d+x 
```
  This profile grants read, write, add, delete, and execute access to all resources on the appliance.
6. Click Apply to create the user group
7. Create a user account for Alice. Select an Access level of Group defined, and select the Administrators group that you just created in User group.
8. Click Apply to create the user account.