Managing administrators

An administrator who has system authority can complete any task with the IBM Spectrum® Protect server, including assigning authority levels to other administrators. To complete some tasks, you must be granted authority by being assigned one or more authority levels.

Procedure

Complete the following tasks to modify administrator settings.
Task Procedure
Add an administrator. To add an administrator, ADMIN1, with system authority and specify a password, complete the following steps:
  1. Register the administrator and specify Pa$#$twO as the password by issuing the following command:
    register admin admin1 Pa$#$twO
  2. Grant system authority to the administrator by issuing the following command:
    grant authority admin1 classes=system
Change administrative authority. Change the authority level for an administrator, ADMIN1.
  • Grant system authority to the administrator by issuing the following command:
    grant authority admin1 classes=system
  • Revoke system authority for the administrator by issuing the following command:
    revoke authority admin1 classes=system
Remove administrators. Remove an administrator, ADMIN1, from accessing the IBM Spectrum Protect server by issuing the following command:
remove admin admin1
Temporarily prevent access to the server. Lock or unlock an administrator by using the LOCK ADMIN or UNLOCK ADMIN command.