About Configuration and Administration

The Configuration and Administration menu allows administrators, often users with DBA.ADMIN user role, to manage OTM for other users. You will be able to maintain, troubleshoot, and optimize your Oracle Transportation Management system more effectively, and ensure compliance with your organization’s policies and operational requirements. The management options are split between user management and system administration. 

User Management

These areas are about setting up accounts, customizing your user experience, and making the interface more accessible for your needs.

User Management

You can create, manage, and update accounts for yourself or others in the system. This includes setting nicknames, email addresses, passwords, user roles (which define permissions), account policies (such as lockout times and keeping login history), and access control.

User Configuration

You can configure screen layouts and search results, create and edit as well as assign access to menus. If you use OTM often, you can create a workbench to present different functional areas of OTM into a single page. You also have the option to adjust what actions you can take from menus, results, or action lists. You can view what access a user has to different areas of the system and if you have the correct permissions you can manage this user access. 

Preferences 

By setting user preferences you can control your default currency, language, number/date formats, time zone, and units of measure. You can also set which dashboard or screen you see first when you sign in, and configure interface preferences. Adjusting preferences makes daily tasks easier by matching the system to your personal habits and local standards. You can save often used records as favorites as well. You can configure a business monitor to watch business objects based on predefined saved queries/saved searches and let you see when records match the search criteria defined in the saved query.

Branding 

If administrators want to change how OTM looks, you can do this through branding. Administrators are able to create themes that change the overall appearance. Specific images can be upload to brand the user interface. Understanding branding will help you personalize the look and feel of the system or align it to your company’s standards. 

System Administration

With system administration, you can set up and maintain your system, manage properties, help provide technical support, configure alerts for monitoring performance, and organize your domains. Your administrator users may need a DBA.ADMIN user role to access some of these features.

System Administration

System Administration is about reviewing logs and purge history.

Property Management

Property Management lets you configure and manage system properties using property sets, see property information, the property tree, perform an audit, and set database property values, as well as choose which optional features you needs to activate.

See About Audits.

Technical Support

By default, the Technical Support section is for users who have a DBA.ADMIN user role, and it lets you set configuration collection and performance collection settings, view scheduled performance collection, and see the performance collection results. The diagnostics and tools group should only be used by experienced application administrators. If Oracle Support asks you to collect log and configuration files, use the Collect Diagnostic Logs page. You can also look at an audit event from here.

See About Audits.

Metric Alert Management

Metrics are used to measure system performance. You can define thresholds that will trigger notifications when those thresholds are met or exceeded. The thresholds will be driven by either a comparison against historical performance (cumulative), or when critical events occur (current).

See How to Configure Metric Collection for details on collecting metrics.

Domain Management

Domain Management explains how to organize and secure your data using domains and subdomains. You can Add Domains, Manage Domains, set up domain grants and permissions, control Domain Settings, and assign users or roles to specific domains.