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Grant Access to XPS Tools

Access to the XPS tools included with CA SiteMinder® must be granted to individual users by an Administrator using the Administrative UI.

Follow these steps:

1. Log in to the Administrative UI.
2. Click the Administration, Administrator, Administrators.
3. Do one of the following:
   • To add a new administrator, click Create Administrator
   • To change the access of an existing administrator, search for the user and click the name of the user to access the record.
4. Enter a name and an optional description in the respective fields.
5. Enter a user path or click Lookup to select an existing user path.

   Note: The user path (specified in the Administrative UI or with the XPSSecurity tool by an Administrator) is required for write access to any of the settings controlled by the XPS Tools. A user path has the following format:
   namespace://directory_server/DN or Login_for_OS

6. (Optional) Select the Super User option to grant super user rights.
7. Select any of the following command line tools in the Access Methods section:

   XPSEvaluate Allowed

   Grants access to the XPS expression evaluation tool.

   XPSExplorer Allowed

   Grants access to the tool that edits the XPS database.

   XPSRegClient Allowed

   Grants access to the XPS tool that registers Web Access Managers or Reports servers as privileged clients.

   XPSConfig Allowed

   Grants access to the tool that examines and configures XPS settings in XPS-aware products.XPSSecurity Allowed

   Grants access to the security tool which creates XPS users and specifies their XPS-related privileges.

8. Click Submit.

   The administrator has permission to use the selected XPS tools.

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