Planning for the administration system and Central Settings

These questions help you plan for the administration system. As a system administrator, you need to plan which systems are administration systems and which users are administered.

The administration system contains Central Settings. The Central Settings apply only to iSeries™ Access for Windows^®, so you only need to plan for the administration system if you want to administer the Central Settings supported by iSeries Access for Windows. Answer the following questions to help you gather the information you need to set up the administration system:

1. Which system, if any, do you want to be an administration system?

2. What scan frequency do you want to use? This setting can have an impact on performance if the client updates its Central Settings too often.

   1. If you want the system to update client settings to match the settings stored on the administration system every time the client user signs on to the client, specify Every client session.

   2. If you want the system to update the client settings to match the settings stored on the administration system after a specific time period, specify the Number of days. For example, if you want to update the client settings every day, specify 1 for Number of days. Because the Central Settings are not expected to be changed frequently, you might want to set the scan frequency to once per day, or even less, to avoid performance impacts on the client.

3. Which users and groups do you want to administer through Application Administration?

   1. If you want to administer all users, select Administer users by default. Then, by default, all users on the system will be administered by the administration system. If you want to override the Administer users by default setting for specific users, continue to step b.

   2. Select Customize Administration of Users.

   3. Use the Add and Remove buttons to add or remove users and groups to the Users administered and Users not administered lists.

4. How do you want clients to discover their administration system? See How clients initially discover their administration system for more information.

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