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Create an Administrator

An administrator can manage the Administrative UI and the Policy Server tools.

Use the Administrative UI to establish an administrator and define the tasks and rights for this administrator.

Before you create an administrator, consider the following:

• Rights that each administrator needs to perform their job.
• Across how many administrators should the Administrative UI and tools tasks be distributed
• Will an administrator be responsible for application security policies

Important! An administrator can only create another administrator with the same or lesser privileges. For example, if an administrator with GUI and reports privileges, he cannot create an administrator with GUI, reports privileges and local API privileges.

To create an administrator

1. Click Administration, Administrators, Administrator, Create Administrator.

   The Create Administrator dialog opens.

   Note: Click Help for descriptions of settings and controls, including their respective requirements and limits.

2. Specify a Name and optionally, a description for the administrator you are creating in the General group box.
3. Enter a value for the User Path in the Details group box.

   You can either type a value for the user path or click Lookup to search for users in the current user store configured for the Administrative UI.

4. (Optional) Select Super User to grant all rights to the administrator and then click Submit. Otherwise, go to the next step.
5. Specify how the administrator is permitted to interact with the Policy Server in the Access Methods group box. Check as many methods as required for the administrator to perform tasks.

   For example, if an administrator is going to use the XPSImport and XPSExport tools, check the Import Allowed and Export Allowed.

6. Click on Create in the Rights group box

   The Select category dialog opens.

7. Complete the following steps in the Select Category dialog:
   1. Select the security categories, that is, the tasks that you want the administrator to manage then click Next.
   2. If you selected Policy Administration or Application Administration as a security category, check all the appropriate boxes in the Select scope dialog to determine the domains that the administrator can control then click Next.
   3. Check all the relevant permissions (View, Manage, Protect, eXecute) in the Select permissions dialog for each administrative tasks.
   4. Click Finish.

   The administrator rights have been granted. You return to the Create Administrator dialog.

8. Click Submit.

You have defined an administrator.