Configure J2C Aliases for the moderation proxy service

Configure J2C Aliases so that community owners can moderate their community Blogs, Forums, and Files applications.

Moderation actions are performed by a moderation API. Community owners cannot access that API, so IBM Connections handles their moderation requests through a proxy service. The proxy service uses J2C Aliases to pass the requests. Proxy service alias users must be in the global-moderator roles of the appropriate applications, and they must be able to log in to IBM Connections.

By default the proxy service uses the connectionsAdmin J2C Alias provided during installation. That user is mapped to the global-moderator roles for Blogs, Forums, Files, Moderation, and Communities by the installation program, and can log in to IBM Connections. However, we can create different moderation aliases for each of the different supported applications. We can create the following aliases:

• For Blogs create an alias called moderationBlogsAlias.

• For Files create an alias called moderationFilesAlias.

• For Forums create an alias called moderationForumAlias.

The different applications recognize these specific aliases. We can map any users to these aliases, but all users must be in the global-moderator roles of the appropriate application, and they must be able to log into IBM Connections.

For example, the moderationBlogsAlias user must be in the global-moderator role for Blogs. See Roles.

The proxy service logs its actions, so if the users (other than the connectionAdmin user) are only used for this purpose, it will make reading the log more clear.

To create moderation aliases and then map them to a global moderator role:

1. Create a moderation alias:

   1. From the IBM WAS console, expand...
      Security | Global security | Authentication | Java Authentication and Authorization Service | J2C authentication data | New

   2. Name the alias, for example...
      moderationFilesAlias

   3. Type the name and password of a user for the alias.

   4. Click OK.

2. Map an alias user to a global-moderator role:

   1. Expand...
      Applications | Application Types | WebSphere enterprise applications | application | Security role to user/group mapping

   2. Select the check box for the global-moderator role, and then click Map users.

   3. In the Search String box, type the name of the user to assign to the role, and then click Search.

      If the user exists in the directory, it is displayed in the Available list.

   4. Select the user or group name from the Available box, and then move it into the Selected column.

   5. Click OK.

   6. Click OK, and then click Save to save the changes.

3. Synchronize and restart all the WAS instances.

Parent topic:
Configure Moderation

Related reference:

Roles