Informatica Administrator (the Administrator tool) is the administration tool that you use to administer the Informatica domain and security. The Administrator tool is a thin or web client application.
You use the Administrator tool to perform the following tasks:
Domain administrative tasks
Manage logs, domain objects, and domain reports. Domain objects include application services, nodes, grids, folders, database connections, applications, and licenses.
Security administrative tasks
Manage users, groups, roles, privileges, and permissions.
On each node where you install the Informatica services, the installer creates a Windows service or UNIX daemon to run Informatica. When the installation completes successfully, the installer starts the Informatica service on Windows or the Informatica daemon on UNIX.
The Informatica service also runs the Administrator tool. Log in to the Administrator tool to create the user accounts for users of Informatica and to create and configure the application services in the domain.