System Administration

The following sections are available:

PhixFlow Architecture	An overview of the architectural elements of PhixFlow.
Planning your PhixFlow System	How to prepare server machines for the installation of PhixFlow.
Installing PhixFlow	How to install a new instance of PhixFlow onto a Server.
User Administration	How to set up and administer users within PhixFlow including how to set up roles and users groups to restrict access to functionality and data.
System Monitoring	Monitoring PhixFlow tasks, user activity and Processing Statistics
System Configuration	System Configuration settings can be edited on the System Configuration form.
Third Party Licence Information	Information about third party licences for libraries used by PhixFlow.

Use task plans to schedule tasks that maintain the PhixFlow system; see Task.

The system task includes processes that clear the data from incomplete stream sets. It is important to run a system task daily, or at a minimum weekly. We recommend that you add a system task to a task plan that is scheduled to run daily.

Administration Menu

The Administration menu is on the right of the grey task bar at the bottom of the PhixFlow window.

The options that are available in the Administration menu depend upon your privileges. Administrators configure privileges in roles; see Managing User Groups and Privileges.

The menu has the following options:

Option	Description
Import Configuration	Open a file browser to select applications or packages that have previously been exported from another PhixFlow instance and import them into the current PhixFlow instance; see Import Configuration
Import Stream Data	Import stream data previously exported from another PhixFlow instance; see Import Stream Data
Export Full Configuration	Export everything.
Open Configuration Export Pane	Open a window where you can select the applications or packages that you want to export. Export Pane.
Open Stream Data Export Pane	Open a window where you can select the stream data that you want to export; see Export Stream Data.
Get Snap Shot	Create and download an Excel file containing a snapshot of the currently running processes. This provides useful information when troubleshooting problems.
Download Log File	Open a window where you can specify server-side log files to download as a zip file; see Download Log Files.
Publish Streams	Manually update the stream data tables in the PhixFlow database with all the current stream data.