User manual

RaQ 3 Server Management

Approaches to RaQ 3 administration

The RaQ 3 Administrator can decide how many of the server functions

he or she wants to manage directly and how much to delegate.

• Full control. If the RaQ 3 Administrator wants to control all the

functions on the RaQ 3, he or she can create virtual sites without

assigning any virtual Site Administrators. The RaQ 3 Administrator

is responsible for managing the main site and all the virtual sites.

(See “Deﬁnition of a virtual site” on page 34.)

• Hybrid control. If the RaQ 3 Administrator wants to control some

of the RaQ 3 functions and delegate others, he or she can assign

some of the virtual sites to virtual Site Administrators (for the sites

that have a user capable of acting as a Site Administrator), and

retain control of other virtual sites. The RaQ 3 Administrator is

responsible for managing only the sites that do not have a Site

Administrator.

• Distributed control. If the RaQ 3 Administrator wants to delegate

responsibility for all the virtual sites, he or she can create Site

Administrators for all the virtual sites. In this case, the RaQ 3

Administrator is responsible for managing only server settings and

virtual site services. The Site Administrators are responsible for

managing the virtual sites.

The RaQ 3 Administrator can manage the RaQ 3 using any standard

browser. Access the Server Management screen by typing either

http://<IP address> /admin/ or http://<host name> /admin/ into your

browser. These web pages are password-protected — you must enter

the RaQ 3 Administrator password.

When you access the RaQ 3 Administrator site for the RaQ 3, the

Server Management screen appears (see Figure 15). This screen is

used for the RaQ 3 management tasks that are performed only by the

RaQ 3 Administrator:

1. Setting up and maintaining the RaQ 3.

2. Creating virtual sites.

3. Creating access privileges and providing services for the Site

Administrators and site users.

The RaQ 3 Administrator functions available on the Server

Management screen are described in the sections that follow.