Sun Java System Delegated Administrator

Overview of the Delegated Administrator

The Delegated Administrator is an application that distributes your user administration workload throughout a hierarchy of administrators and individuals. Based on the access privileges associated with your User ID, you can create the following types of administrators using the Delegated Administrator:

Top Level Adminstrator (TLA)
Service Provider Administrators (SPA)
Organization Unit Administrators (OUA).

The following sections provides information on the roles and responsibilities of:

Top Level Administrator
Service Provider Administrator
Organization Unit Administrators
User Accounts

Top Level Administrator

As a Top Level Administrator (TLA), you can create and manage domains, mailing lists, and user accounts. You can also manage domain organizations, and assign users and administrators to a domain organization.

The Top Level Administrator can

Create, modify, delete, search, full domain business organizations
Create, modify, delete, search, users in full domain organizations
Manage service packages for full domain organizations
Manage service packages for users in the organization

Service Provider Administrator

As a Service Provider Administrator (SPA), you can manage different Business Organizations with a broad authority over the system hierarchy.

As a service provider administrator, you have unrestricted access to all entries in the organization directory. You can navigate to administration pages at other levels of the directory tree from the Service Provider Administrator page. You can thus play the role of any administrator beneath your level in the organization.

The Service Provider Administrators can:

Create new vendor or acquired organizations similar to your own that receives their email from the same service provider.
Select a shared mail domain from the shared domains available for the organization.
Allocate service packages to organizations and assign service packages to users.
Create Organization User Administrators (OUA) for an organization.
Assign service packages to Organization Unit Administrators.
Add users to the organization.

Organization Unit Administrators

Organization Unit Administrators are a group of administrators just below the Service Provider Administrator, and they focus primarily on managing user accounts. An Organization Unit Administrator can create a user account for a new employee of an organization, and assign appropriate service packages to them.

For example, as an internet service provider (ISP), an organization may represent one of the many hosted companies. If you have a corporate intranet, an organization unit may represent the divisions of a single company. Organization units are useful for companies that wish to group users into sub-units within the organization. An organization unit might represent a department of employees within a division of a company. Each Organization Unit Administrator for a group of organization can create and manage user accounts within the organization.

User Accounts

Each user account represents a user entry in the organization. For example, for an ISP, a user account might represent an individual subscriber. For a corporate intranet, a user account represents an individual employee of the company. Individual users can only access their user-specific account data.