Quadstone System Administration

The purchase of the Quadstone System will give you, the administrator, another system to support and maintain. The aim of the administration course is to make this task as easy as possible. By the time you finish the course, you will understand the architecture of the Quadstone System and know how to install, configure and manage it.

Duration: ½ day

Audience

• System administrators
• Database administrators
• Desktop administrators
• Systems integrators

and other individuals who are required to:

• Support Quadstone System users
• Configure, install or upgrade the Quadstone System
• Interface the Quadstone System to a database system
• Maintain a Quadstone System installation

Pre-requisites

We expect you to have good knowledge of the particular system you maintain and understand the basics of how your network is set up. Server system administrators should know how to:

• Gain administrator privileges on the system
• Use a server command-line
• Perform patch installation
• Create user accounts and groups
• Change file permissions
• Start and stop Unix daemons or Windows services
• Make some decisions about system resources and how they are allocated

Database administrators should know how to:

• Access the database system
• Install database client libraries

There is no pre-requisite for attendance at any other Portrait training module.

Topics covered

• The Quadstone System
  • Context
  • Client-server architecture
  • Platforms
• Installing and configuring
  • Server software
  • Client software
  • Database connections
  • Upgrades
• Starting, stopping, log files, and monitoring
• Dataset management
• Troubleshooting and contacting Quadstone System Support
• Administering Self-Service Analytics

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