This chapter provides you with a summary of the types of administrators, the tasks they can perform, and the tools that they can use to perform the delegated management tasks on domains that are hosted by service providers (SP)s.

Topics in this chapter include:

Administrators' tasks and tools

Delegated management features

Administrators' Tasks and Tools

SIMS supports four different types of administrators to perform domain hosting tasks at the domain level. TABLE 11-1 shows a list of different types of domain-level tasks that each of the four types of administrators could perform along with the tools that are available to these administrators.

TABLE  11-1   Summary of Administrator's Tasks and Tools

Type of Administrator	Site	Allowable Task	Using Tool
SIMS Administrator	SP	Create hosted domains	Administration CLIs
			Administration Console
		Create a delegated administrator	Administration CLIs
	Subscriber	Manage hosted domains	Administration CLIs
		Manage user and groups	Administration Console
			Administration CLIs
Delegated Administrator	Subscriber	Manage users and distribution lists	Delegated Management Console
			Delegated Management CLIs
		Personal change preferences	Delegated Management Console
		Bulk-loading new users and distribution lists	Delegated Management CLIs
Distribution List Owner	Subscriber	Manage distribution lists	Delegated Management Console
End-User	Subscriber	Change personal preferences	Delegated Management Console

TABLE 11-3 shows a complete list of delegated management tasks that can be performed by each of the four types of administrators.

See Chapter 6, "Domain Hosting with SIMS," for domain hosting feature components and specifications, including the Delegated Management Console and Domain Management server.

See Chapter 10, "SIMS Adminstration Console," for information about the architecture of the Console and the types of services that it offers, including domain hosting capabilities.

See Chapter 11, "SIMS Configuration Files" in the The Sun Internet Mail Server 4.0 Installation Guide for a list of configuration files that are used by the SIMS components.

See Chapter 17, "Domain Hosting", in the Sun Internet Mail Server 4.0 Administrator's Guide for instruction on creating domain, administrator, and customization.

See the Sun Internet Mail Server 4.0 Delegated Management Guide for instructions on how a delegated administrator for a hosted domain can perform tasks for end-users and distribution lists.

TABLE 11-2 shows the names and types of the utilities that the administrators could use to perform their domain-level tasks.

TABLE  11-2   SIMS Domain Hosting Tools

Type of Tool	Type of Utility	Name of Utility	Function
SIMS Administration CLIs (Site and Subscriber)	Administrative	imadmin	Provisioning Channel configuration
	Monitoring	immonitor	System monitoring
Administration Console	Administrative (limited)
Delegated Management CLIs	Administrative	imadmin	Provisioning

Delegated Management Tasks

TABLE 11-3 shows the types of tools that the administrator can use, which is used based on the domain hosting functionality.

TABLE  11-3   SIMS 4.0 Delegated Management Tasks

Task	Type of Administrator/User	Type of Tool
Domain Creation and Management
Create domains	SIMS administrator	Administration CLIs
		Administration Console
Modify and delete domains	SIMS administrator	Administration CLIs
Delegated Administration Setup
Create a Delegated Administrator for each hosted domain	SIMS administrator	Administration CLIs
Set and modify user-level restrictions
User Creation and Management
Bulk-load domain-level users	SIMS administrator	Administration CLIs
Create, modify, and delete users for each hosted domain		Administration Console
	delegated administrator	Administration CLIs
		Delegated Management Console
Modify user preferences	SIMS administrator	Administration CLIs
		Administration Console
	delegated administrator	Administration CLIs
		Delegated Management Console
	End-user	Delegated Management Console
Distribution List Management
Create, modify distribution lists	SIMS administrator	Administration CLIs
		Administration Console
	delegated administrator	Administration CLIs
		Delegated Management Console
	distribution list owner	Delegated Management Console
Modify distribution lists	distribution list owner	Delegated Management Console