Administrative security

Access to the Java Management Extension (JMX) administrative subsystem requires role-based access control when administrative security is enabled.

A client, which can be a user or an administrative client program, can access an MBean method only if at least one of the required roles is granted to the client. WAS uses the declarative security approach to specify the security policy on the JMX MBean. This approach has the advantage of not requiring MBean developers to add security code. Moreover, WebSphere Application Server provides a default security policy for an MBean so in most case MBean developers do not need to specify a security policy at all. With WebSphere Application Server, we can define explicit security policy for the MBeans if the default security policy does not meet the specific security requirements.

Related concepts

Default MBean security policy

Related tasks

Define an explicit MBean security policy