| Oracle® Content Database Application Administrator's Guide for Oracle WebCenter Suite 10g (10.1.3.2) Part Number B32192-01 |
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| Oracle® Content Database Application Administrator's Guide for Oracle WebCenter Suite 10g (10.1.3.2) Part Number B32192-01 |
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This chapter provides an overview of the Oracle Content DB application. This chapter contains the following topics:
Content management systems enable organizations to support the life cycle of content. The life cycle of content typically consists of creating, editing, publishing, and archiving. For example, content is created by one or more authors. Over time, that content may be edited and approved for publication. Once the content has been published, it may be replaced by another form of content and archived or removed from use.
Content management can improve an organization's knowledge sharing and communication capability. Content management systems improve users' efficiency by making content readily available.
In addition, content management systems may include version control, workflow, security, and more.
Oracle Content DB is a consolidated, database-centric content management system that provides a comprehensive, integrated solution for file and document life cycle management. Oracle Content DB enables enterprise customers to use one highly scalable, manageable, and usable application to manage all of their unstructured information.
There are two types of administration for Oracle Content DB: system administration and application administration.
System administration involves managing Oracle Content DB processes, such as starting and stopping the nodes, services, and servers, tuning the system to ensure reliability and performance, changing Site settings, and registering custom workflow processes. System administrators typically use Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Application Server Control (Application Server Control) to perform system administration functions for Oracle Content DB.
Application administration involves managing users, quota, Libraries, categories, and content at the Site and Container levels. Application administration is divided into multiple administrator roles that can be assigned at the Site level only, or at both the Site and Container levels.
A single user can act in multiple roles. In addition, each role has a different set of access privileges.
Initially, when Oracle Content DB is installed, a default user is assigned. The user name depends on the user repository selected for use with Oracle Content DB:
If you are using Oracle Internet Directory as the user repository for Oracle Content DB, use the orcladmin user name and password to log into Oracle Content DB for the first time. This user has all the application administration roles.
If you are using a third-party LDAP server as the user repository for Oracle Content DB, use the user name and password you provided during Oracle Content DB installation to log into Oracle Content DB for the first time. This user has all the application administration roles.
If you are using a file-based user repository with Oracle Content DB, use the contentadmin user name to log into Oracle Content DB for the first time. The password for this user is the same as the Oracle Content DB schema password. This user has all the application administration roles.
After you have created additional users in your user repository, and after those users have logged in to Oracle Content DB, you can delegate application administration roles to other users, as needed. A user can have more than one role, and more than one user may be assigned the same role.
In particular, you can designate the Security Administrator role to a user, and in turn, that Security Administrator can designate the remaining application administrator roles to other users.
Once users have been assigned administrator roles, they can sign in to the application as a regular user, and decide whether or not they want to be in administrator mode by selecting Switch to Administration Mode.
