Enabling security
After coming back from the hardware store with the parts (locks, keys, and so on) and tools (drill, screwdriver, and so on) and perhaps some advice from the hardware store assistant, you can confidently start the task of installing that lock system you just bought for your front door. In a similar way, now you can begin to configure your WebSphere global security.
As in many IT tasks, there may be more than one way to accomplish such a task. This section will guide you thru enabling global security using the Integrated Solutions Console. Throughout this chapter, we will also refer to the Integrated Solutions Console by the names of the WebSphere Console and the Deployment Manager Console.
Note
If your organization has a large base of WebSphere Application Server domains and you are considering enabling global security on multiple consoles, it may be a good idea to automate this task using the WebSphere administrative scripting interface, wsadmin
.
The procedure we are going...