Chapter 4. Administration of Alfresco

For any Enterprise-level software, administration of your system is critical. Alfresco provides a simple and user-friendly interface to administrate and configure various important services. Users and groups can be very efficiently managed by admin users.

This chapter provides you with an introduction on ways to administer Alfresco.

By the end of this chapter, you will have learned about:

• Understanding Alfresco Explorer and the Share admin console

• Groups and user creation

• Administration of workflow

• How to use Node Browser

Understanding the admin console

Alfresco provide three types of administration console:

• Alfresco standalone administration page.

• Admin console in Alfresco Share.

• Admin console in Alfresco Explorer. This Explorer is being completely deprecated in Alfresco version 5.0, as some features are being made available in Share now.

Alfresco standalone administration page

This is a standalone administration console in Alfresco, which allows you to configure and manage the Alfresco repository. This console is available only in the Enterprise version and is restricted to admin users. This interface is external to Alfresco Explorer and Share.

Use the following URL to access the admin console. It will prompt for user credentials. Provide admin user credentials to access it:

• http://<IP>:<Port>/alfresco/service/enterprise/admin

The landing page is the summary of all the configurations. There are various configurations available in this console. Let's go through each of them in detail.

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Summary

Alfresco provides a very easy user interface to administrate and monitor the repository. This chapter helped you to understand about the various admin consoles available, specific to the system. Standalone admin consoles are for configuring the Alfresco system.

The Share admin console is used to manage users, groups, tags, categories, and sites. It also allows you to change the look and feel of the Share interface.

Node Browser is one of the very important tools for admin and developers, which allows users to look up any node and its details in the repository. Node Browser is a really handy tool while troubleshooting Alfresco. Also a note here, there are certain admin console changes in Alfresco v 5.1.

In the next chapter we will talk in detail about search engines in Alfresco. Details such as how to manage them, configure them, and tune them will be discussed.