3.3 Creating Additional Filr Administrators

You might want to create additional Filr administrators just in case the primary Filr administrator is unable to access his or her account. Creating additional Filr administrators is a safe way to ensure that the right people are able to access the Filr site in an administrative capacity if the need arises.

Only the original (built-in) Filr administrator can add or remove site administrator rights for users and groups.

To minimize the time-consuming indexing of the Filr site, it is most effective to create a group that has administrative rights, then assign users to that group as needed.

3.3.1 Assigning Administrative Rights to a User

  1. Log in to Filr as the Filr administrator.

    1. Launch a web browser.

    2. Specify one of the following URLs, depending on whether you are using a secure SSL connection:

      http://filr_hostname:8080
      https://filr_hostname:8443
      

      Replace filr_hostname with the host name or fully qualified domain name of the Filr server that you have set up in DNS.

      Depending on how you have configured your Filr system, you might not be required to enter the port number in the URL. If you are using NetIQ Access Manager, the Filr login screen is not used.

  2. Click the admin link in the upper-right corner of the page, then click the Administration Console icon Novell Teaming Log In page.

  3. In the Management section, click Users.

  4. Select the users for whom you want to grant administrator rights.

  5. Click More > Add Administrator Rights.

To remove administrator rights from a user:

  1. Select the users for whom you want to remove administrator rights.

  2. Click More > Remove Administrator Rights.

3.3.2 Assigning Administrative Rights to the Administration Group

You can assign administrative rights to any group, or you can create an administrator group and assign rights only to that group, as described in Section 9.0, Creating Groups of Users.

To assign administrative rights to a group:

  1. Log in to Filr as the Filr administrator.

    1. Launch a web browser.

    2. Specify one of the following URLs, depending on whether you are using a secure SSL connection:

      http://filr_hostname:8080
      https://filr_hostname:8443
      

      Replace filr_hostname with the host name or fully qualified domain name of the Filr server that you have set up in DNS.

      Depending on how you have configured your Filr system, you might not be required to enter the port number in the URL. If you are using NetIQ Access Manager, the Filr login screen is not used.

  2. Click the admin link in the upper-right corner of the page, then click the Administration Console icon Novell Teaming Log In page.

  3. In the Management section, click Groups.

  4. Select the groups for whom you want to grant administrator rights.

  5. Click More > Add Administrator Rights.

To remove administrator rights from a group:

  1. Select the groups for whom you want to remove administrator rights.

  2. Click More > Remove Administrator Rights.