Implementation Guide › Configuring Basic Users and Access › Create the First Administrator

Create the First Administrator

The first user you create must be assigned the Administrator role. Only users who are assigned the Administrator role can perform configuration. You can assign an Administrator role to a new user account you create or to an existing user account retrieved into CA Enterprise Log Manager.

Use the following process:

1. Log into the CA Enterprise Log Manager server as the EiamAdmin default user.
2. Create the first administrator.

   The method you use to create the first CA Enterprise Log Manager Administrator depends on how you configure the user store.

   • If you configure CA Enterprise Log Manager to use the internal user store, you create a new user account with the Administrator role.
   • If you configure CA Enterprise Log Manager to use an external user store, you use an existing LDAP user to bind to the directory. Once you bind to an external directory, you retrieve from the external user store the account of the user to whom you want to assign a CA Enterprise Log Manager role. User accounts from external user stores are retrieved as global users. You cannot modify existing user account information, but you can add a new CAELM application user group, or role. For the first user, you assign the role, Administrator.

   Note: You cannot create new users from CA Enterprise Log Manager when you configure an external user store.

3. Log off the CA Enterprise Log Manager server
4. Log back on to the CA Enterprise Log Manager server with the new user account credentials.

   You are then ready to perform configuration tasks.