Getting Started with IBM Data Studio for DB2

Appendix B – Advanced integration features for Data Studio web console 341
When you install Data Studio web console you enter the credentials for a default
administrative user that is used for login to the server. However, for day-to-day use in a
production environment where you should set up Console Security so that you can grant
appropriate privileges to users, groups, and roles that are defined on the repository
database.
You grant access to the repository database users in three steps:
1. Configure the web console for repository database authentication and grant the
users of the repository database web console access. You will also give them web
console roles such as Administrator or Viewer depending on if they will perform other
web console administrative tasks or just view the information in the web console.
2. Grant the web console users database privileges to perform tasks such as setting
alert thresholds on each of the connected databases.
3. Grant repository database privileges to web console users to perform tasks such as
managing jobs for the connected databases.
B.3.1 Configure the web console for repository database authentication
The Data Studio web console comes with two main authentication mechanisms:
• Default administrative user login
This is the install-time default security mechanism. User login is limited to the default
administrative user ID that was created when you installed the product.
Administrators can use this option to temporarily restrict user login without stopping
the product.
• Repository database authentication.
This is the multi-user security mechanism. Any user who can connect to the
repository database can be given access to the web console. The user's credentials
are authenticated directly against this database.
To use the repository database authentication mechanism:
1. Set up a repository database. For information, see B.2 Using a repository database to
store configuration data.
2. In the web console, select Open -> Setup -> Console Security.
Select Repository database authentication and click Apply. If prompted, log in with a
database administrator user ID and password for the repository database.