API Gateway 10.3 | Using API Gateway | User Management | Manage Users, Groups, and Access profiles | Access Profiles | Adding an Access Profile
 
Adding an Access Profile
You can create an access profile for a user by providing the basic information, functional privileges, and group information.
*To create an access profile
1. Expand the menu options icon , in the title bar, and select User management.
2. Select Access profiles.
3. Click Add access profile.
The Access profile details tab appears.
4. Add the following basic information for the access profile:
Field
Description
Name
Name of the access profile.
Description
A description for the access profile.
5. Click Continue to assign Functional privileges >.
6. Select from the following functional privileges to create an access profile based on your requirements:
Field
Description
Select all
To select all the listed functional controls.
Manage APIs
To create and manage APIs.
Activate/Deactivate APIs
To activate, deactivate and manage APIs.
Manage applications
To create and manage applications and register applications with the APIs. You cannot modify or delete an application if you are not the owner of the application.
Manage aliases
To create and manage aliases.
Manage global policies
To apply a global policy to all APIs or the selected set of APIs.
Activate/Deactivate global policies
To activate, deactivate, and manage global policies.
Manage policy templates
To apply one or more policy templates to an API.
Manage threat protection
To prevent malicious attacks on applications that typically involve large, recursive payloads, and SQL injections.
Publish API to service registry
To publish and unpublish APIs to service registry.
Manage packages and plans
To create packages and plans, associate a plan with a package, and associate APIs with a package. In addition, you can view the list of packages, package details, APIs, and plans associated with the package.
Activate/Deactivate packages
To activate, deactivate, and manage packages.
Publish to API Portal
To publish and unpublish assets to API Portal.
View administration configurations
To view administration configurations.
Manage general administration configurations
To create and manage administration configurations.
Manage security configurations
To create and manage security configurations.
Manage destination configurations
To publish events and performance metrics data to the configured destinations.
Manage system settings
To create and manage system settings.
Manage user administration
To create and manage users.
Manage promotions
To create stages and manage promotions.
Manage service registries
To create and manage service registries
Import assets
To import already exported APIs, application, policies, and aliases by selecting, the menu options icon , in the title bar, and selecting Import in API Gateway.
Export assets
To export assets to your local system.
Manage purge and restore runtime event
To purge and restore events from the API Gateway store by setting the required date or duration in the API Gateway.
Click Save to save the group details at this stage and provide the group information for the access profile at a later time.
Note:
If you want a user to only view the assets and not create, modify, or delete an asset; you can associate an access profile to a user group including that user without selecting any of the functional privileges.
7. Click Continue to associate Groups>.
Alternatively, you can click Groups to go to the Groups section and associate a local or LDAP group to the access profile.
Note:
To allow a user to access API Gateway, you must associate the group that includes the user to an access profile.
8. Provide the group name in the Name field to associate the access profile to the group.
You can search groups based on the characters provided in group name. Select the required group from the list displayed.
9. Click Save.