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administration.png Superuser Administration

There are two main groups of tasks that are associated with the administration of the Privitar platform:

  • Environment Administration tasks.

  • Superuser Administration tasks.

This section describes Superuser Administration tasks. For more information about administering Environments in Privitar, see environments.png Environments Administration.

Superuser Administration

Superusers are overall system administrators for the Privitar platform and manage all aspects of Privitar once it has been fully installed and is operational.

A separate Superuser account is provided in Privitar. Once logged in as Superuser, a variety of tasks and settings are provided on the Privitar navigation panel:

  • Teams are workspaces for groups of Users that collaborate together on a de-identification project.

  • Roles define the custom user permissions of Privitar that can be assigned per Team.

  • Users are user accounts for Privitar.

  • API Users have access to the Privitar On Demand and Unveiler APIs, as well as the Privitar Automation API.

  • Settings are general Privitar settings.

  • Metadata Attributes define the metadata field configurations.

  • Cluster Types define Privitar environments that use different Hadoop Cluster types.

  • Usage Reporting tracks and logs information about daily usage of Privitar across all Teams.

  • Service Health displays the health status of all connected Privitar services.

  • Audit tracks and logs Privitar user and configuration activity.

For more information about assigning Superuser permissions to a user, see Managing Users.