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System Administrator Tasks
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System Administrator Tasks
The following sections describe common system administrator responsibilities and tasks.
Basic Tasks
Before you can customize or maintain the iNEWS newsroom computer system, you must
learn several basic tasks, which include:
• Start up or shut down iNEWS Server software, which includes logging out users and
taking the system offline.
• Back up a site file before making file modifications.
• Send system administrator commands from the console to one or more of your system’s
computers.
• Become a console superuser, capable of performing actions that are only accessible to
users with superuser permissions.
User Tasks
A user is anyone who can log in to the database and use iNEWS NRCS. Your
responsibilities regarding users are:
• Monitor user information, such as users’ access privileges and which users are currently
logged in.
• Customize the traits of users’ accounts to enable users to more effectively use the
system.
• Provide a new employee access to the information stored in the iNEWS NRCS database
by creating a new user account.
• Remove user accounts of former employees to prevent improper access to the iNEWS
NRCS database.
Database Tasks
The iNEWS system database contains the information your oganization needs to function. A
system administrator’s tasks associated with the database include:
• Design forms (that is, story templates) to display important information about stories in
a queue.
• Monitor changes to files and queues in the database.
• Unlock or delete any item in the database, and recover items that were accidentally
deleted or corrupted.