Domain administration overview

Concepts in web-based administration

Administration of this site is web-based, enabling you as the Domain Administrator to access certain administrative web pages that are restricted to other users. Administrative options are also included in pages accessible to other users, but are only displayed to you due to your unique permissions.

Several essential concepts govern this site's administrative web pages:

The development environment and integrated tool set on this site is modeled around the suggest-and-approve workflow common to open source software development methodology. Although this site features "prepackaged" resources, user roles, project settings, and tool configurations as a matter of convenience, you can either use these default settings "as is" or alter them to address particular community, project, or organizational needs. Read more about how to access domain administrative features in the next section, "About your Start Page."

About your Start Page

When you log in, your view of the Start Page features an Admin Options section with direct links to administrative screens where you conduct these domain level tasks:

Administer Projects
Displays a comprehensive, alphabetical listing of all projects hosted on this site with links to project home pages. Includes a filtering option and a link to add new projects. See Approving, deferring, and disapproving projects for further information.
Administer Users
Displays a comprehensive, alphabetical listing of all users registered on this site with links to individual user account information. Includes a link for adding new users. See Adding and editing user accounts for further information.
Administer Roles
Displays a screen listing all user roles available on the site, both at the domain level and within projects. Roles are sets of permissions that determine which site activities users can access. See Administering roles and permissions for further information.
Active User Sessions
Displays a page logging currently active user sessions with login date/timestamp, last servlet accessed, and previous access date/timestamp information. This page provides a status snapshot of current, real-time site activity. See Monitoring user sesions for further information.
Project Groups and Categories
Displays a listing of all project groups and categories on this site. Includes links to create or edit groups and categories. See Creating and editing project groups for further information.
Administer User Groups
Displays a listing of all groups of users on this site. Includes links to create or edit user groups. See Creating and editing user groups for further information.
Administrative Audit Log
Displays a summary log page of numerous site activities with date/time stamps and other event identifying information. Includes links to a detail page for each event. See Using administrative audit logs for further information.

Specific requests requiring your immediate attention appear in the "Pending Actions" section immediately following the administrative section.

As the Domain Administrator, you are the gatekeeper of the site, and you effectively "own" all the projects hosted here. You also own two special projects that are included in the "My projects" section of your Start Page: the "www" and "look" projects. These contain this site's domain-level content pages and data files. They are only accessible to users with domain-level administrative permissions, i.e. domain administrators such as you.