IBM Integration Bus, Version 9.0.0.8 Operating Systems: AIX, HP-Itanium, Linux, Solaris, Windows, z/OS

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Authenticating users for administration

Authentication is the process of establishing the identity of a user or system and verifying that the identity is valid. You can control access to the IBM® Integration Bus administration interfaces by using the authentication capabilities that are provided with the product.

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IBM Integration Bus provides authentication support for the following broker administration interfaces:
  • IBM Integration Bus web user interface
  • IBM Integration Bus RESTful application programming interface (API)

If administration security is enabled, users of the web user interface and the RESTful API must log in with a user ID and password, which are authenticated by checking them against the credentials held in the broker. Users' access to data and broker resources is controlled by the permissions that have been associated with their role (system user ID).

If administration security is not enabled, web users can interact with the web user interface without logging on; they interact with the web UI as the 'default' user and can access all data and broker resources. For users of the RESTful API, all REST requests are unrestricted if administration security is not enabled.

For the following administration interfaces, authentication is provided only by the system login; no additional authentication is carried out by the broker:
  • IBM Integration Explorer
  • IBM Integration Toolkit
  • IBM Integration API
  • Command line
When you access the broker through these interfaces, the broker accepts the system user ID and uses it to check against authorization queues.

For more information about authenticating users for broker administration, see Managing web user accounts and Accessing the web user interface.

Subtopics

Parent topic: Setting up administration security
Related concepts:
Security overview
Administration security
Administration security overview
Role-based security
The IBM Integration API
Related tasks:
Enabling administration security
Disabling administration security
Managing web user accounts
Accessing the web user interface
Administering brokers using the web user interface
Configuring the web user interface server
Administering brokers and broker resources
Related reference:
mqsiwebuseradmin command
bp28461_.htm | Last updated Friday, 21 July 2017