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System Administrator

System Administrator is an application accessed inside Conﬁgurator or from the

Windows Start menu. With System Administrator, you can archive and restore

Portal statistics, reader statistics, and reader transactions. From here you can

also import data from an existing database or comma-delimited ﬁle. You must be

an AMS User with Administrator privileges to use this feature. It is a good idea

to archive records on a regular basis. It will be helpful to establish a protocol and

ensure that it is carried out according to plan.

Note Archiving and restoring transactions and statistics is not the same as performing a

full AMS database back up. Full back up and restore is performed using Microsoft

SQL Server Management Studio Express (installed with AMS). Complete steps are

described later in this chapter.

Establish an Archive Protocol

An industry best practice for use of any archiving systems is to establish a pro-

tocol for who, when and how much data to archive, depending on the volume and

nature of the data being archived. For security purposes, it will be important to

ensure the protocol is being implemented by also establishing an audit practice.