How to Configure the Accessibility Mode for the Administrative UI

CA SiteMinder® is a web-based product. The product can be configured to be accessible.

The following graphic describes how to configure the accessibility mode for the Administrative UI:

This flowchart shows how to enable accessibility mode for the Administrative UI

Follow these steps:

Change the objects on your Policy Server by opening the Administrative UI.

Follow these steps:

Open the following URL in a browser.
```
https://host_name:8443/iam/siteminder/adminui
```
host_name

Specifies the fully qualified Administrative UI host system name.
Enter your CA SiteMinder® superuser name in the User Name field.
Enter the CA SiteMinder® superuser account password in the Password field.
Note: If your superuser account password contains dollar‑sign ($) characters, replace each instance of the dollar-sign character with $DOLLAR$. For example, if the CA SiteMinder® superuser account password is $password, enter $DOLLAR$password in the Password field.
Verify that the proper server name or IP address appears in the Server drop-down list.
Select Log In.

The following types of administrators are available:

The administrators who have their accounts and credentials that are stored in an external third-party database outside of the product.
The legacy administrators who have their accounts and credentials that are stored inside the policy store.

Any type of administrators can be configured to use the accessibility mode. However, to create administrators, an external database must be configured first.

Pick one of the following administrator types for which you want to configure the accessibility mode:

You create a legacy administrator in the Administrative UI. This legacy administrator uses the accessibility mode of CA SiteMinder®.

Follow these steps:

Select Administration, Administrator.
Select Administrators.
The Administrators page appears.
Select Create Administrator.
The Create Administrator page appears.
Select Lookup under General.
The Select a User page appears.
Specify search criteria and Select Search.
Users matching the specified criteria appear.
Select the administrator that you want and pick Select.
The full name of the user appears in the Name field. The URL to the user in the external store appears in the User Path field.
Select Submit.
The administrator is created and a confirmation message appears.
Configure the accessibility mode for this administrator.

You create a legacy administrator in the Administrative UI. This legacy administrator uses the accessibility mode of CA SiteMinder®.

Follow these steps:

From the Administrative UI, select Administration, Administrator, Legacy Administrators.
Select Create Legacy Administrator.
Verify that the following option button is selected:
```
Create a new object of type Legacy Administrator
```
Select OK.
The Create Legacy Administrator screen appears.
Select the Name field, and then enter a user name of the Legacy Administrator.
Verify that the following option button is selected:
```
SiteMinder database
```
Select the Password field and type a password for the Legacy Administrator.
Select the Confirm Password and type the same password that you used in Step 7.
Select the following option button:
```
System
```
Select Submit.
The administrator is created and a confirmation message appears.
Configure the accessibility mode for this administrator.

Configure the accessibility mode for the administrator after creating it.

Follow these steps:

From the Administrative UI, select Administration, Administrator, Administrators.
Select the edit icon to the right of the legacy administrator to which you want to configure the accessibility mode.
The Modify Administrator screen appears.
Select the following check box:
```
GUI Allowed
```
Select Add.
The Create Permission screen appears.
Configure the accessibility mode by doing the following steps:
1. On the Create Permission screen, select the check boxes of the items that are shown in the Security Category column of the following table:

Security Category	V	M	X
Admin Administration	X	X
Agent Administration	X	X
Agent Type Administration	X	X
Application Administration	X	X
Application Role Administration	X	X
Authentication Administration	X	X
Directory Administration	X	X
Domain Administration	X	X
Expression Administration	X	X
Global Policy Administration	X	X
Host Administration	X	X
Legacy Domain Administration	X	X
Mapping Administration	X	X
Password Policy Administration	X	X
Policy Administration	X	X
Report: Activity by User			X
Report: Admin Operations			X
Report: Applications			X
Report: Applications by User			X
Report: Denied Authorizations			X
Report: Denied Resources			X
Report: Policy by Role			X
Report: Protected Resources			X
Report: Resource Activity			X
Report: Resources by User			X
Report: Roles by Application			X
Report: Roles by Resource			X
Report: Users by Resource			X
Report: Users by Role			X
User Administration	X	X
Variable Administration	X	X

After all of the check boxes corresponding to the Security Category column are selected, select OK.
The Create Permission closes and the permissions that you selected appear on the Modify Administrator page.
Select the check boxes for the permissions columns (V, M, and X) as shown in the previous table.

Select Submit.
The accessibility mode is configured and a confirmation message appears. Any administrators who require the accessibility mode can use this administrator account to access the Administrative UI.