What Is System Administration?
A System Administrator is a person responsible for controlling access to Oracle Applications and assuring smooth ongoing operation. Each site where Oracle Applications is installed needs a system administrator to perform tasks such as:
- Managing and controlling security. Decide which users have access to each application, and within an application, which forms, functions, and reports a user can access.
- Setting up new users. Register new Oracle Applications users, and give them access to only those forms, functions, and reports they need to do their jobs.
- Auditing user activity. Monitor what users are doing and when they do it. Choose who to audit and what type of data to audit.
- Setting user profiles. A user profile is a set of changeable options that affects the way Oracle Applications look and behave. A System Administrator can set user profile values at the site, application, responsibility, and user levels.
- Managing concurrent processing. Concurrent Processing is an Oracle Applications facility that lets long-running, data-intensive tasks run simultaneously with online operations, taking full advantage of multitasking and parallel processing. A System Administrator can monitor and control concurrent processing using a few simple forms.
