About System Console
System Console provides a single graphical user interface (GUI) that supports an administrator creating and managing the resources used by the Actuate applications for an entity, such as a corporation or corporate division.
A system administrator creates a cluster for the entity in System Console. A cluster supports creating a scalable BIRT iHub system consisting of two or more machines, or cluster nodes, each running BIRT iHub using the same configuration details.
When setting up a cluster, the administrator defines and configures resources such as:
*Cluster nodes
*BIRT iHub metadata database
*Volumes the cluster uses
*BIRT iHub license
*Storage space for volume data on disk
In addition to creating and managing clusters, a system administrator uses System Console to perform the following operations:
*Create alerts
System Console monitors a range of activity, conditions, and resources in a BIRT iHub System. An attribute identifies a monitored item. The system administrator can set a threshold on an attribute. When the monitored item reaches the threshold, for example, when the days until the product license expires reaches a specified number, System Console generates an alert.
*Create other system administrators
A system administrator can create other system administrators.
*Configure security
The system administrator selects where user authentication and authorization information are stored and provides information about the identity provider when creating a new cluster.
System Console contains the following features:
*Monitoring
Monitor cluster activity.
*Clusters
Create, update, and delete clusters. View logs and detailed information on system resource usage.
*Settings
View system information, create System Administrator users, update the information for an existing System Administrator, and specify an e-mail server.