Administrator’s Guide

This guide is for System Administrators. It describes the methods for managing the status, settings and capabilities of Sintelix.

There are two key tabs providing access to key Administrator information and settings: Status and Admin.

In addition, there are a range of System Configuration Files that can be edited to modify Sintelix settings and storage locations.

System Status

The Status tab displays the System Overview, Manage Background Tasks and Manage Local Agents panels (see System Status).

The System Overview displays an overview of your Sintelix System Status Overview including the version number, license status, activated capabilities, system configuration and health. You can also export the System Status to a CSV file (see System Status Summary Export).

You can Manage Background Tasks, such as harvesting, document ingestion and network creation and display the status of the Sintelix Agent Connections.

Admin

The Admin tab (only available to Administrators) provides access to administrative settings and controls, including:

user accounts (Set up User Accounts)
harvester settings (Configure Harvester Settings)
email account setting (Set Up Email Account for Sintelix)
structured data source definitions (Define a Data Source Connection)
backup settings (Backup Sintelix)
log settings (System and Audit Logs), and

See Admin Settings.

Configuration Files

There are a range of Configuration Files that can be edited to modify Sintelix settings and storage locations. , including:

Configure external user authentication (Set up User Accounts)

Customise the Security Model

Change the Memory Usage

Change Port Numbers

Configure and Secure Libraries

Manage Datastore Locations

Reset Administrator Password

Configure Capabilities

Some Sintelix capabilities require connecting and/or configuring before they are available for use.

User Accounts

User accounts can be authenticated using different identity and access management (IAM) methods, including:

built-in Sintelix user database
LDAP
Active Directory
Windows domain single sign-on authentication (NTLM)
PKI (X.509) authentication
OAuth (2.0) for Azure allows users to log in using their Microsoft credentials.

Licensing and Activation

Activation Key

When you change your Sintelix licence, you may be issued with a new activation key. See Update Sintelix Activation Key to update the Sintelix Activation Key.

Dongle Authentication Troubleshooting

If your Sintelix license requires dongle authentication, Sintelix will attempt to find the dongle on startup. See Troubleshoot the Dongle Authentication if you encounter any issues with dongle authentication.

Security

By default, all content in Sintelix is accessible to everyone. To control access you can implement a security model.

Detailed Documentation

For detailed documentation and code examples on the API Web Services, click on the Services tab in Sintelix.

Testing

The Services tab also provides the capability to test API commands.

About this guide

Many of the features and access to Sintelix are configurable. There may be small variations between screen images in this guide, and your installation of Sintelix, and some features may not be available.

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