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About Working with Product Administration

This topic gives you background that you need for working with product administration.

Logging On as the Siebel Administrator

The Siebel database server installation script creates a Siebel administrator account that can be used to perform the tasks described in this guide. For more information, see Siebel Server Installation Guide and Siebel Server Administration Guide.

To log on as the Siebel administrator, start the application and log on using the user name and password assigned by your database administrator. Generally, the Siebel administrator connects to the server database.

CAUTION:  Do not perform system administrative functions on your local database. Although there is nothing to prevent you from doing this, it can have serious results. Examples include: data conflicts, an overly large local database, a large number of additional transactions to route.

License Key Requirements

This guide describes basic product management tasks. It also describes how to use Siebel Configurator to create and manage products with components and products with attributes. To use Siebel Configurator, you must have the appropriate license keys installed.