Administering Watson Speech services
Service configuration
| Task | Required permissions | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Updating models and voices for your Watson Speech services | Instance administrator | After you install the Speech services, you might need to add or delete Speech to Text models or Text to Speech voices. You can update the installed models and voices by editing the custom resource. |
| Audit events for Watson Speech services | Instance administrator | The Audit Logging Service generates and forwards auditable events for the Watson Speech services. |
Database configuration
| Task | Required permissions | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Monitoring the PostgreSQL datastore for Watson Speech services | Instance administrator | You can enable monitoring of the PostgreSQL datastore to receive updates on its usage and status by the Watson Speech services. The events can be consumed by Prometheus monitoring software or whatever application you use for monitoring. |
Security
| Task | Required permissions | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Exporting IBM® Software Hub audit records to a security information and event management solution | Not supported | |
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Managing security for your Watson Speech services datastores |
Instance administrator | You can manage the access credentials for your PostgreSQL datastores by creating secrets objects for each datastore. You can create the credentials before you install Watson Speech services or update them after installation. |
Resource management
| Task | Required permissions | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Manually scaling resources for services | Instance administrator | Adjust Watson Speech services by scaling resources to support high availability or to increase processing capacity. Resources can be scaled based on predefined resource configurations. |
| Automatically scaling resources for services | Not supported | |
| Shutting down and restarting services | Instance administrator | Manually shut down Watson Speech services to prevent it from using resources. You can restart the service when you need to use it again. |
| Scaling up your Watson Speech services installation | Instance administrator | You can scale up your installation by changing the size of each of the Speech services in the custom resource. You can use the same procedures to scale down an installation. |
| Scaling up your Watson Speech services datastores | Instance administrator | You can scale up the number of replicas for each of your datastores as needed to support your workload. |
Backup and restore
| Task | Required permissions | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Backing up and restoring IBM Software Hub | Cluster administrator | Choose the correct method to back up and restore IBM Software Hub. |