3.3 Creating Additional Filr Administrators

Creating additional Filr administrators lets you ensure that the right people are able to access the Filr site in an administrative capacity if the need arises.

3.3.1 Additional Administrators Have a Subset of Administrative Privileges

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

Additional Filr administrators have rights to administer the following:

Users
Groups
Mobile Devices
Net Folder
Net Folder Servers

3.3.2 Creating an Administrator Group

To minimize the time-consuming indexing of the Filr site, it is most effective to create an administrator group that has administrative rights, then assign users to that group as needed. For information about how to create a group, see Section 9.0, Creating Groups of Users.

You can create an administration group and assign rights only to that group:

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.
Create an administration group, described in Section 9.0, Creating Groups of Users.
Assign administrator rights to that group, as described in Section 3.3.3, Assigning Administrative Rights to a User or Group.
When you want to grant administrative rights to a user, add that user to the administrator group that you created. (For information about how to add users to a group, see Section 19.2, Modifying Groups.)

3.3.3 Assigning Administrative Rights to a User or Group

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.
Click the admin link in the upper-right corner of the page, then click the Administration Console icon .
In the Management section, click Administrators.
Click Add, then begin typing the name of the user or group for whom you want to grant administrator rights.
Click the user or group name when it appears in the drop-down list.

To remove administrator rights from a user or group:

Select the users or groups for whom you want to remove administrator rights.
Click Remove.