Tasks for system administrators

System administrators manage the database and system, logs and performance, and access for other users. Typical responsibilities of system administrators include deploying and managing company data models, managing users and roles, managing system services, defining clusters, integrating LDAP, and monitoring IBM® InfoSphere® Master Data Management Collaboration Server.

In many cases, you can use scripts for your administration tasks, such as for deploying a company. You can also use the product interface for many tasks. The following lists show the items that you typically work with in the user interface in your role as a system administrator. The tasks in these lists are typical and do not represent an exhaustive set.

The system administrator tasks are available from the consoles and menus under the System Administrator, Product Manager, Collaboration Manager, and Data Model Manager menu choices in the interface. Depending on the role that you have and the level of access and customization, certain tasks might not be available for you.

System Administrator menu

You can use the System Administrator menu and consoles to do tasks such as running SQL queries, viewing configuration properties or log files, creating or stopping a service, importing an environment, defining scripts to include in an export, importing files, searching and displaying JVMs, viewing database performance information, and viewing cache details.

Product Manager menu

You can use the Product Manager menu and consoles to do tasks such as creating or importing catalogs, creating catalog-to-catalog exports, creating a hierarchy, creating a hierarchy mapping, creating and running a report, and creating lookup tables.

Collaboration Manager menu

You can use the Collaboration Manager menu and consoles to do tasks such as creating and running import and export jobs, creating collaboration areas, creating queues and message queues, creating web services and viewing their transactions, creating data sources, and creating distributions.

Data Model Manager menu

You can use the Data Model Manager menu and consoles to do tasks such as scheduling and running jobs, creating and editing scripts, enabling and disabling users, creating access control groups, creating privileges for catalogs and hierarchies, enabling logging, adding and enabling alerts, creating a staging area, and creating workflows.