Creating domain-specific groups and non-admin users

You must create domain-specific user groups and non-admin users, Assign the domain groups to the users who can access the specific dashboards.

Procedure

  1. Log in to Dashboard Application Services Hub portal as smadmin user.
  2. Expand Console Settings (Console settings) > WebSphere Administrative Console.
  3. Click Launch WebSphere Administrative Console.

Create groups.

  1. In the navigation pane, click Users and Groups > Manage Groups.
  2. In the Manage Groups window, click Create
  3. In the Group name box, enter the name of the group and append the remote context that is configured from the Remote Flow Collector and Remote SNMP Collector.
    For example, use the remoteContext_<anyname> format.
  4. Click Create.

Create users.

  1. In the navigation pane, click Manage Users.
  2. In the Manage Users window, click Create.
  3. In the User ID field, type a unique name to identify the user.

    This user ID is added to the user registry and used as the login account name.

Assign users to domain-specific groups.

  1. Click Create.
  2. Click Group Membership to add the user as a member of one or more existing groups.
  3. In the Search by field, select the attribute from the list that you want to use to search for one or more users.

    For example, select Group name.

  4. In the Search for field, either type the string that you want to search for to limit the set of groups, or use the wildcard character (*) to search for all groups. Whether the search is case-sensitive or case-insensitive depends on the user registry that you are using.
  5. Click Search.
    After the search completes, the results are displayed in two lists:
    • Available - the list is for groups that matched the search criteria.
    • Mapped To - the list is for groups that the user is already a member.
  6. In the Available column, select the domain-specific user group that is created in Step 6.
    Make sure to select the following groups also and click < Add:
    • ConsoleAdmin
    • ConsoleUser
    • ReadAdmin
    • WriteAdmin
    • dashboarduser
    • manager-gui
    • manager-jmx
    • manager-script
    • manager-status
    • npiadministrator
    • npiuser
  7. Click Create.
  8. Close the WebSphere Administrative Console window.

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