2.3 Managing Administrators

You can create administrators with different access controls manage them in Administration Console.

Administration Console notifies you when another administrator makes changes to a policy container or to an Access Manager device such as an Access Gateway. The person who is currently editing the configuration is listed at the top of the page with an option to unlock and with the person’s distinguished name and IP address. If you select to unlock, you destroy all changes the other administrator has done.

WARNING:Locking has not been implemented on the pages for modifying Identity Server. If you have multiple administrators, they need to coordinate with each other so that only one administrator is modifying an Identity Server cluster at any given time.

Multiple Sessions: Do not start multiple sessions of Administration Console in the same browser on a workstation. Browser sessions share settings that can result in problems when you apply changes to configuration settings. However, if you are using two different brands of browsers simultaneously, such as Internet Explorer and Firefox, it is possible to avoid the session conflicts.

Multiple Administration Consoles: As long as the primary console is running, all configuration changes must be made at the primary console. If you make changes at both a primary console and a secondary console, browser caching can cause you to create an invalid configuration.

The following sections explain how to create additional administrator accounts, how to delegate rights to administrators, and how to manage policy view administrators: