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You need to add a WebSphere Administrator Account here, no special Connections access roles are needed.
So you can use an already existing account (local or LDAP), or you create a local WebSphere Administrator Account.
Create a local user Users and Groups > Manage Users > Add… and add this user to
Users and Groups > Administrative user roles:
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Figure 4: User Roles

Optional: To encrypt the password in the adminclient.props you can use the following command:

• Linux:
  /opt/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer/bin/ 
  PropFilePasswordEncoder.<sh|bat> /<path_to_pbh_dir>/ 
  adminclient.props password

• Windows:
  <customer-specific>\WebSphere\AppServer\bin\PropFilePassword
  Encoder.<sh|bat> <path_to_pbh_dir>\adminclient.props password

1. Create WebSphere Cluster

In the WebSphere Integrated Solution Console (ICS) go to Clusters > WebSphere Application Clusters. Create a cluster with one or optionally more nodes.
Figure 5: Create Cluster 1

Figure 6: Create Cluster 2

Figure 7: Create Cluster 3

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