## System Administration Task Flow

Task | Description | For Instructions
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Basic Administration Tasks
Maintaining site information | Enter basic site and customer information such as addresses, contact name, and so on. | Site Information
Discovering devices | Find devices that are physically attached to the host system or are accessible on the Ethernet network. | Discovery
Displaying the Start Agents Window Disabling a Specific Agent | Selectively activate or deactivate the monitoring agents. | Start or Stop Agents
Starting and stopping devices Disabling the cron using the GUI Disabling the cron using the CLI Activating monitoring on a device Deactivating monitoring on a device | Selectively activate or deactivate the monitoring agents. | Start or Stop Devices
Configuration Tasks
Changing configuration options | Change the configuration of default software options. | Configuration Options
Reviewing a Configuration | Verify the validity of the software configuration. | Review Configuration
Copying a configuration to another agent Recovering a configuration | Recover the configuration by copying the configuration from one agent to another. | Recover Configuration
Adjusting default monitoring frequencies | Adjust the monitoring frequencies for each device category. | Monitoring Frequencies
System Utilities Tasks
Changing system timeout settings | Adjust the timeouts used by the monitoring agents. | System Timeouts
Erasing cache of selected device | Deletes the last report generated by instrumentation modules. Data will be permanently deleted. | Erase Cache
Running the agent program manually | Run the monitoring agent manually. | Run Agent
Run Scripts | Run pre-selected scripts from the GUI. | Run Scripts
Running CLI scripts from the GUI | Run the Run Commands on an Array script from the GUI. | Running Commands on an Array (Script)
Running the Run Commands on an Array script from the GUI | Run the Retrieve Tokens From an Array script from the GUI. | Retrieving Tokens From an Array
Running the UNIX process status script from the GUI | Run the UNIX PS script from the GUI. | Run UNIX Process Status
Changing the Storage Automated Diagnostic Environment's default password | Change the password from the default root password. | Root Password
Maintaining user login roles and permissions | Set up permissions for users. | User Roles
Customizing window settings | Change the default GUI window options. | Window Options
Defining and Setting up Administration groups | Sort devices into meaningful groups for system administration purposes. | Create Administration Groups Assign Administration Groups
Launching an external web-based application | Launch external browser-based software. | Application Launcher

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