Marklogic admin interface read only access

Question

Only Marklogic administrators are able access the Marklogic admin interface. It would be helpful for developers and support personnel to have read-only access to the admin interface to see how various instances are configured. But I didn't see an option to set up read-only users. Is there such an option?

Answer 1

You can do this via the "Configuration Manager" which is available as a tab at the top of port 8000. As its help docs explain...

The Configuration Manager allows you to view the configuration settings for MarkLogic Server resources. A resource is a MarkLogic Server object, such as a database, forest, App Server, group or host.

Use the Configuration Manager to:

• Allow non-admin users read-only access to configuration settings for databases, forests, groups, hosts, and App Servers.
• Easily search for resources and configuration settings.
• Safely review settings in read-only mode, then jump directly to the resource in the Admin Interface to modify the settings. (Administrative privileges are required to modify settings).
• Save resource configurations as XML inside a zip folder.
• Import previously saved resource configurations. Importing a configuration allows you to compare versions and update configuration settings.
• View data available through the Management REST API.