Tools in the Administration Console

You can use the tools in the Administration Console to perform some administration tasks.

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Prerequisites

To access and use the Administration Console, you must meet the following requirements:

• For PPM 10.0.2 and later versions, you have the Configuration license.

  For PPM 10.0.1 and earlier versions, you have the User Administration or the Configuration license.

• You have one or more of the following access grants:

  Access grant	Permissions
  Sys Admin: Server Tools: Execute Admin Tools	Lets the user access the Administration Console and the server tools.
  Sys Admin: Server Tools: Execute SQL Runner	Enables the SQL Runner menu in the Administration Console and lets the user run SQL queries from the Administration Console. Without this access grant, the SQL Runner menu is invisible.
  Sys Admin: Server Tools: Execute File Browser	Enables the File Browser menu Browse PPM Server files in the Administration Console and lets the user browse and download PPM Server files. Without this access grant, the File Browser menu is invisible.

For more information about security groups and access grants, see the Security Model Guide and Reference.

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Tools available in Administration Console

You can perform the following tasks from the Administration Console:

• Open Administration Console

• View PPM Server status from the Administration Console

• Install Autopass license key file and view license usage from Administration Console

• Work with fiscal periods from the Administration Console

• Configure server configuration parameters from Administration Console

• Configure and migrate the PPM Document Management System from the Administration Console

• Download files from and upload files to <PPM_Home> directory from Administration Console

• Run SQL queries from the Administration Console

• Create dashboard data source and list portlet from SQL Runner page

• Gather information for Software Support from the Administration Console

• Generate Java dumps

• Change data display in Administration Console tables

• Use the Unchecking Showing Total Number Tool from Administration Console
• Customize labels of PPM web pages
• Use feature toggles to turn on/off features
• Customize icons for PPM entity types
• Shut down or restart PPM from Administration Console
• Monitor PPM usage
• Specify product function logging level from Logger Manager

For more information about security groups and access grants, see the Security Model Guide and Reference.

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