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All Data Director users are visible to all organizations within Data Director.
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Organization administrators contact users to invite them to the organization or grant access directly from
the system user list.
You configure the Data Director user management modes during installation. User management mode cannot
be changed. In both Global and By Organization user management modes, organization administrators must
grant users access to their organization.
About Data Director Administration
Data Director system administrators perform Data Director administration on the system level. Organization
administrators perform Data Director administration on the organization level.
You create the initial Data Director system administrator account during Data Director setup. That system
administrator creates other Data Director users, including other system administrators and organization
administrators, and performs administration tasks at the system level.
By default, users do not have roles or permissions and cannot access any organizations. Organization
administrators assign roles and permissions to users and grant them access to specific organizations.
System administrators perform system-level operations for Data Director or for an entire organization. System
administrators perform the following tasks.
Table 1-1. System-level Operations
Operation Type Examples
Resource management operations
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Creating resource bundles.
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Assigning resource bundles to organizations.
User and organization
management operations
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Creating users.
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Creating organizations.
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Creating organization administrators.
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Designating existing users as organization administrators.
Organization administrators perform organization-level operations within their organizations. Organization
administrators perform the following tasks.
Table 1-2. Organization-level Operations
Operation Type Examples
Resource management operations
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Creating database groups.
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Creating database configuration templates.
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Creating database backup templates.
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Allocating resources to database groups within the
organization.
User management operations
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Creating organization users.
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Granting organization access to existing Data Director
users.
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Assigning organization roles to users in the
organization.
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Creating organization roles and granting roles to
organization user.
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Defining organization permissions and granting
permissions to organization users.
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