Registering a new user account

You can create your own user account when the administrator enables the Allow new users to create their own accounts option. Use this task to create a user account from the login screen.

Before you begin

To register a new user account, the Allow new users to create their own accounts field must be set to Enabled. See Configuring IBM WebSphere DataPower XC10 Appliance user interface security for more information about how to enable user registration.

Procedure

  1. Access the WebSphere DataPower XC10 Appliance login screen.
  2. Click the Register... button to begin creating a user account.
  3. Enter a login ID in the User Name field. The value entered for this field is used as both the user name and the display name for the user. The value for this field can be up to 64 characters in length. All alphanumeric characters can be used. The following special characters are also available: !@#%^*&-+=
    Important: If Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is used to authenticate users, the user that is being registered must exist in the LDAP repository. See Configuring your appliance to authenticate users with an LDAP directory for more information about creating an LDAP configuration.
  4. Enter a password for the user in the Password field. The password can use the same characters available for the User Name field. The Password field is required if a Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) or LDAP server is not defined. If SMTP is enabled, you can choose to enter a password or to leave the field blank and have a generated password sent to your email address. If LDAP is used to authenticate users, the existing LDAP password is used and you do not need to enter a password.
  5. Reenter the same password for the user in the Verify Password field. The value you enter for this field must be identical to the value entered for the Password field. If these fields do not match, then an error is displayed when you click Register and must be resolved before the user can be created.
  6. Enter an email address in the Email address field. The email address is required when a Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) server is used. See Managing IBM WebSphere DataPower XC10 Appliance email delivery for more information.
  7. Click the Register button to complete the registration process.

Results

After you have successfully completed these steps, you registered a user account that you can use to log in to the user interface. By default, you are assigned Appliance monitoring permissions only.
Parent topic: Managing users and groups
Related concepts:
User permissions
Related tasks:
Creating a user
Managing users
Removing a user
Creating a user group
Managing user groups
Removing a user group