Administrator Workstations

Definition: Administrator workstation

The Administrator workstation is a system management and data access tool that enables you to perform the following tasks:

• Define and maintain users of Budget, Analyst, and subordinate Administrator workstations.

• Specify the default configuration for Budget, Analyst, and subordinate Administrator workstations when you create them.

• Restrict changes to shared data by controlling user access to the financial data in the shared database.

• Define database structures and distribute them to the shared database, subordinate Administrator workstations, Budget workstations, and Analyst workstations.

• Distribute slices of financial data to users and the shared database.

• Refresh the shared database that you maintain with data distributed from your superior administrator.

• Submit financial data from the shared database that you maintain to your superior administrator's shared database. (Note that super administrators cannot perform this task because by definition they are at the highest level in the reporting structure.)

Location in a tiered architecture

Multiple Administrator workstations can exist at various levels of an environment that is set up in a tiered configuration. Each Administrator workstation is associated with its own shared database.

Associated databases

Administrator workstations are associated with a shared database and a Task Processor. The following illustration shows how a typical Administrator workstation is configured.

 

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