Adding the First Administrative User to the ISM Server

To administer your ISM server, you need administrative user privileges for that ISM server based on the system on which you run your administrative programs. Administrative user privileges can be granted to individual user accounts, UNIX groups, or Windows groups. They are typically restricted to an individual system.

When you installed ISM, the local root@server_name for UNIX ISM servers or the local Windows Administrators group, Administrators@server_name, for Windows, ISM servers was added as an administrative user by default. To add additional administrative users, you must log in as either user root or informix on UNIX or as Administrators@server_name on Windows.

For each administrator entry in the list of administrators, the ISM server compares the hostname of the administrator with the hostname of the account. If the hostnames match, the ISM server compares the administrator name with both the user and group name of the account. If the administrator name and the user name or group name match, the ISM server grants administrative privileges to that administrator.

For example, if your ISM server is running on a computer called nova, but you use ISM commands on a computer called jupiter, you must log on to nova and add the user name or group name that you use on jupiter to the nova list of ISM administrative users. The following numbered steps illustrate:

To add a user or user group

Log on to nova as user root, informix, or Administrator.
To add a user or group on jupiter as an administrative user for the ISM server, run one of the following commands at the command line:
- To add a user named karen on jupiter, run the following command:
```
ism_add -admin karen@jupiter
```
  You might need to qualify the hostname as follows:
```
jupiter.informix.com
```
- To add a group on jupiter, run the following command:
```
ism_add -admin group_name@jupiter
```
This user or group can now use any of the ISM command-line utilities on the computer jupiter to administer the ISM server on nova.
To add other users or groups on nova (the computer that is running the ISM server) as administrative users for the ISM server, run one of the following commands at the command line:
- To add a user on nova, run the following command:
```
ism_add -admin user_name@nova 
```
- To add a group on nova, run the following command:
```
ism_add -admin group_name@nova
```
This user or group can now use the ISM command-line utilities on nova to administer the ISM server on nova.

If you are not on the administrative users list and try to make configuration changes to the ISM server, you receive the following message: