Administering users, roles, and groups
Users are associated with roles and groups. Groups logically categorize users into units with common functional goals. Roles determine the data that users and groups can view, and the actions that they can perform. The federated repository means that users of all products that are in your instance Dashboard Application Services Hub can be administered centrally. However, some aspects of user administration are specific to the Web GUI.
Specific Web GUI user administration tasks include setting user preferences and changing passwords for other users. User preferences include access to event data filters and event list preferences. Any user can change their own password.
Standard user administration tasks, such as creating and deleting users are performed in the WebSphere Administrative Console. For this type of user administration, you need the iscadmins role. For standard administration tasks, the following information is available:
- See the user administration information for the ObjectServer in this information center.
- Refer to your LDAP documentation for information about your LDAP directory.
- For information about user administration from the GUIs in the Console Settings, click or User Roles and refer to the online help.
- For information about the consolecli command-line utility, see the Jazz for Service Management documentation at http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEKCU/welcome and search for consolecli.
Web GUI user administration tasks are described in this information center.