User Roles & Permissions
IBM Spectrum LSF Application Center has a flexible access control mechanism. You can control access to all pages of the web
interface, and you can also control whether users can take actions on objects in pages.
About users, roles, and permissions IBM Spectrum LSF Application Center . You can assign a combination of permissions to an object.Assigning roles to users Defining new user roles Configuring administrators that are not LSF cluster administrators IBM Spectrum LSF Application Center administrator role, the LSF® cluster administrators defined in the LSF configuration file lsf.cluster.cluster_name are automatically assigned the IBM Spectrum LSF Application Center administrator role. You can however, modify the role assignment and assign different users to be IBM Spectrum LSF Application Center administrators. Configuring folder permission for users Enabling users who do not have OS user accounts to use IBM Spectrum LSF Application Center IBM Spectrum LSF Application Center server, you can enable them to log in and use IBM Spectrum LSF Application Center by creating a user mapping script that maps login user accounts to operating system user accounts. This applies to both the graphical user interface as well as Web Services. Restricting who can log in to IBM Spectrum LSF Application Center IBM Spectrum LSF Application Center , set the parameter ALLOW_UNKNOWN_USER=N in the configuration file pmc.conf . Only users that you specify can log on, and all other users are denied access. Also, set ENABLE_USER_GROUP=N in the pmc.conf file so that users and user groups are not automatically loaded from LSF. Restricting users from viewing job data in IBM Spectrum LSF mobile client IBM Spectrum LSF mobile client . You can disable viewing of job data files in IBM Spectrum LSF mobile client by setting the parameter MOBILE_VIEW_DATA=N in the configuration file $GUI_CONFDIR/pmc.conf . You can also restrict the number of lines that can be viewed at one time with the parameter MOBILE_VIEW_DATA_LINES .