By configuring administrative roles, you can restrict access
to collections and control the functions that each administrative
user can do. After logging in to the administration console, the user
accesses only the functions that are associated with the assigned
administrative role, and retains those permissions for the duration
of the administrative session.
Before you begin
When Watson Content Analytics is installed, the installer configures a user
ID and password for the default administrator. The first time that you access the administration
console, you must log in as this user.
Before you add other
administrative users, ensure that the users are registered in the
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) user registry that the Watson Content Analytics system is configured
to use.
If you use WebSphere® Application
Server,
enable global security to configure the LDAP server and register users.
All administrative users that you add to Watson Content Analytics must be registered in
the user registry for the WebSphere Application
Server LDAP
server.
About this task
You can enroll users in the following administrative roles:
- Master administrator
- These users create collections and have the authority to administer
all aspects of your system, including adding administrative users.
Until the default administrator assigns other users to the master
administrator role, only the default administrator can create collections
or add administrative users.
- Collection administrator
- These users can edit, monitor, and control the operation of collections
that they are authorized to administer. These users cannot
create collections. If a master administrator enables
the System toolbar and Solutions toolbar,
collection administrators can also monitor and administer
system-level activities and solution packages.
- Operator
- These users can monitor and control the operation of collections
that they are authorized to administer. These users can
start and stop collection activities, for example, but they
cannot create collections or edit collections. If a master administrator
enables the System toolbar and Solutions toolbar,
operators can also monitor and administer system-level
activities and feature packages.
- Monitor
- These users can monitor collections that they are authorized to
administer. These users cannot control operations (such
as starting and stopping servers), create collections, or edit
collections. If a master administrator enables the System toolbar
and Solutions toolbar, monitors
can observe, but not administer, system-level activities
and feature packages.
- Content analytics administrator
- These users can create, modify, and monitor analytic resources
for the content analytics collections that they are authorized to
administer (facets, dictionaries, and custom text analysis rules).
- Facet tree administrator
- These users can configure the facet tree for content analytics
collections that they are authorized to administer.
- Dictionary administrator
- These users can configure custom user dictionaries for content
analytics collections that they are authorized to administer.
- Rule-based category administrator
- These users can configure rule-based categories for enterprise
search collections and content analytics collections.
- Application customizer
- These users can customize enterprise search applications and the
content analytics miner by using the customizer applications. In the
administration console, the only actions these users can do is click Search
Customizer and Analytics Customizer.
Procedure
To assign a user to an administrative role:
- Click Security to open the Security view.
- In the system-level security area, click .
- Type the user ID of the user that you want to enroll and
select an appropriate administrative role.
- If the role is eligible, specify whether this user can
access functions from the System toolbar.
For example, you might want to allow some operators or collection
administrators to start and stop system servers.
- If the role is eligible, specify whether this
user can access functions from the Solutions toolbar.
For example, you might want to allow some collection administrators
to edit the collection configuration settings in a solution package.
- If you are not enrolling this user as a master administrator,
select the collections that this user can administer. You
can select the check boxes for individual collections or enable the
user to administer all collections, all enterprise search collections,
or all content analytics collections.
What to do next
You can edit a user's role, change the collections that the
user is authorized to administer, or delete the user from the list
of administrators. You cannot edit or delete the default
Watson Content Analytics administrator.