Administration overview

The regular administrative tasks associated with Crystal Enterprise can be roughly divided into three major categories: user management, content management, and server management. The remainder of this online help provides technical and procedural information corresponding to each of these management categories. This section briefly introduces new Crystal Enterprise administrators to some of the available management tools. It also shows you how to make initial security settings, such as setting the password for the system's default Administrator account.

You will typically use the following applications to manage Crystal Enterprise:

• Crystal Management Console (CMC)

  This web application is the most powerful administrative tool provided for managing a Crystal Enterprise system. It offers you a single interface through which you can perform almost every task related to user management, content management, and server management.

  For an introduction to the CMC, see Working with the Crystal Management Console.

• Crystal Configuration Manager (CCM)

  This server administration tool is provided in two forms. In a Windows environment, the CCM allows you to manage local and remote servers through its Graphical User Interface (GUI) or from a command line. In a UNIX environment, the CCM shell script (ccm.sh) allows you to manage servers from a command line.

  For an introduction to the CCM, see Working with the Crystal Configuration Manager.

• Crystal Publishing Wizard

  This application allows you to publish your reporting content to Crystal Enterprise quickly. It also allows you to specify a number of options on each report that you publish. Although this application runs only on Windows, you can use it to publish reports to Crystal Enterprise servers that are running on Windows or on UNIX.

  For more information on publishing content to Crystal Enterprise, see Publishing overview.