Admin Page
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Overview
The Administration Tools page is only accessible to users with administrative privileges. Only admin users can create new users and grant users administrative rights.
Managing Groups
The Groups section allows you to manage the list of available groups.
- To create a new group: type the name into the Name field and click the Create Group button.
- To modify an existing group: name, select the group from the Group drop-down menu, type the new name in the Name field, and click the Rename Group button.
- To delete a group: select the group from the Group drop-down menu and click the Delete Group button.
Managing Users
XSI BatchServe has two types of users:
- Users are allowed to submit jobs and manage any jobs that they’ve submitted. This includes the ability to manage job tasks, start, stop, and delete jobs and tasks, and edit job options.
- Administrators have full access to the BatchServe server. They can do all of the things that regular users can do, but for any job rather than only those jobs that they’ve submitted. Administrators can also:
- Add, remove, and manage users and groups.
- Change the group to which users and client machines belong.
- Grant administrative privileges to, or revoke them from other users.
- Control client machines remotely (setting clients to accept or refuse jobs for example).
- Perform maintenance tasks like cleaning the client tables and job tables.
The Users section allows you to manage the list of users. Provided you are logged in as an administrator, you can add and remove users, assign users to the various groups that you've defined, and grant administrative privileges to users.
Modifying User Accounts
You can make a number of changes to one or more user accounts from the Users options. Check the boxes (next to the ID field) for users whose accounts you wish to modify and do one or more of the following:
- Add or remove the selected users to or from a group by selecting the group from the drop-down menu and clicking the Add to or Remove from button. Users can belong to more than one group.
- Change the selected users’ status to Admin or User by selecting the status from the drop-down menu and clicking the Change Status button.
| You can control which users appear in the list using the Filter controls at the top of the Users options. You can filter by status or group. You can also sort the users list by clicking any of the column heads. |
Adding New Users
- Click the Add User link. A blank User Information page is displayed.
- Enter the appropriate user information. Make sure to check the Administrator box if you want the user to have administrative privileges.
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| An E-mail address is required to create a new user account. Currently, the E-mail address is not used by BatchServe, but it may be used as part of a notification system in future releases.
If the user does not have an E-mail address, enter a dummy E-mail address like: user@domainthatisnotusedatallontheinternet.com |
- When you’re finished, click the Register button to add the user to the database. The User Info fields are emptied and you can add another user.
- Repeat steps 2 and 3 until you’ve added all of the users that you want to add.
- Return to the Administration Tools page. The new users are listed in the users list.
| If you are logged in as an administrative user, you cannot revoke your own administrative privileges, since this would lock you out of the system. |
Editing User Information
To edit a user’s information, click the username in the User field. The user’s information, except for the password, is displayed in the User Information page (the same one that you use to add users).
Make the necessary changes, click the Update button, and return to the Administration Tools page.
Deleting Users
To delete users, check the box (next to the ID field) for each user that you want to delete and click the Delete Users button.
Managing the BatchServe Database
The Database Entries section displays the number of records in the different tables that BatchServe uses in its database.
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- The Clear Completed Jobs button deletes all completed jobs older than the amount of time specified in the drop-down menu beside the button.
- The Clear All Jobs button deletes all job entries and parameters from the database, regardless of their status.
- The Clear Client List button deletes all entries in the clients' table.
Getting Version Information
Using the Version options, you can see the version numbers for BatchServe, Apache Server, MySQL, and PHP, as well as the username under which the BatchServe server is running.
