Administering IBM Content Manager from IBM Content Navigator
You can use a plug-in in IBM Content Navigator that enables you to administer IBM Content Manager over a secure Web connection.
About this task
IBM Content Navigator supports the following IBM Content Manager tasks:
- Authenticating and authorizing users
- Data modeling
- Importing LDAP users.
Restriction: The following administration tasks are not supported:
- Library server and resource manager configuration
- Business Process Management.
To set up the administration of IBM Content Manager from IBM Content Navigator:
Procedure
Results
- Authentication
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- Users
- Create, manage, search, filter, and delete users (including LDAP users to import).
- User Groups
- Create, add users to, manage, search, filter, and delete user groups.
- Authorization
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- Privileges
- Create, manage, search, filter, and delete privileges.
- Privilege Groups
- Create, add privileges to, manage, search, filter, and delete privilege groups.
- Administrative Privilege Sets
- Create, add privileges to, manage, search, filter, and delete administrative privilege sets.
- User Privilege Sets
- Create, add privileges to, manage, search, filter, and delete user privilege sets.
- Access Control Lists
- Create, manage, search, filter, and delete ACLs.
- Data Modeling
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- Attributes
- Create, manage, search, filter, and delete attributes.
- Attribute groups
- Create, manage, add attributes to, search, filter, and delete attribute groups.
- Reference Attributes
- Create, manage, search, filter, and delete reference attributes.
- Item Types
- Create, manage, search, filter, and delete item types. Item type definition, access control, attributes, document management, default storage, start item on process, enable records management options, retention, logging, auto-linking, foreign keys, user exits, and event subscriptions are available.
- Link Types
- Create, manage, search, filter, and delete link types.
- MIME Types
- Create, manage, search, filter, and delete MIME types.
- Semantic Types
- Create, manage, search, filter, and delete semantic types.
- Media Object (XDO) classes
- Create, manage, search, filter, and delete media object (XDO) classes.
- System Modeling (read-only)
- Search and filter lists of IBM Content Manager servers such as library servers and resource managers. Restriction: The interface cannot configure these items.
- Tools
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- LDAP configuration
- Configure an LDAP server that may be used to import users. Once this is set up, you can import LDAP users by using the New User option under the Users tab. Restriction: Note that this allows import of LDAP users, but does not configure the server to LDAP authentication. To configure the server for LDAP authentication, see Defining the LDAP configuration.
- Log configuration
- Configure logging and tracing for many of the components.