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.
Cluster nodes