Site Administration

ALM Site Administration enables both on-premises and SaaS admin users to create and maintain projects, users, servers, site connections, license usage, and server parameters. It also provides a set of tools for admin users to run activities for multiple projects in parallel.

Note:  

  • Starting from ALM 16.0.1, the web interface for Site Administration is available for both on-premises and SaaS environments. It replaces the previous Site Administration and SaaS add-on.

  • If you want to use QC Sense, use the legacy Site Administration. For details, see Site Administration (legacy version).

For details about the legacy Site Administration, see Site Administration (legacy version).

What a site admin can do

As a site admin, you can do the following with Site Administration:

Area Operations
Project

  • Create and manage domains and projects

  • Add users to projects

For details, see Project management.
Lab Management

  • Manage the Lab Management project

  • Manage Lab Management user

For details, see Manage LAB_PROJECT.
User Management

  • Create and manage users

  • Create and manage API keys for users

For details, see User management.
API Key Management

Create, delete, revoke, and regenerate API keys for external applications accessing ALM's API.

For details, see API key management.
Password Policy

  • Define password policies

  • Set a specific policy as the default policy

  • Assigns a specific policy to all site users

For details, see Password policy management.
Licenses

  • Assign licenses to domains and projects

  • View license usage

For details, see License management and analysis.
Servers

  • Configure the ALM server

  • Add database servers

  • Modify database server properties

For details, see Server management.
Monitoring

  • Monitor user connections

  • Monitor audit log

  • Monitor TEA host services

  • Disconnect users

  • Send messages to connected users

For details, see Monitoring.
Configuration

  • Add and update site parameters

  • Configure ALM mail settings

  • Set ALM mail restrictions

For details, see Configure parameters and mail settings.
Client Management

Enable or disable Web Client or its modules at site or project level.

For details, see Client management.

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(For SaaS) What a customer admin can do

As a customer admin, you can do the following with Site Administration:

Area Operations
Customer Management

Create, view, update, and delete customers.

For details, see Customer management.
User Management

  • Create, import, view, update, and delete customer users

  • Activate and deactivate customer users

  • Send email to customer users

  • Assign roles to users to manage user permissions

For details, see User management.
Project Management

  • Create, view, update, and delete projects

  • Add users to projects

For details, see Project management.
Role Management

Create custom roles and assign permissions to roles.

For details, see Role management (for SaaS only).
Password Policy

  • Define custom password policies

  • Set a specific policy as the default policy

  • Assigns a specific policy to all users of the customer

See Password policy management.
License Assignment

  • Assign licenses to domains or end customers

  • View license usage

See License management and analysis.
Monitoring

View connected users, including license consumption and audit log.

For details, see Monitoring.
SaaS Information link

Opens the SaaS - Information Center page. This page includes the following tools:

  • Notification Board. Contains SaaS notifications, such as planned maintenance and incidents.

  • Recipient Management. Enables you to modify the list of users who receive system notification messages.

  • Library. Opens a location for shared access where customers can upload documents.

  • Training. Opens a location for shared access where customers can upload training material.

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What a basic user can do

As a basic user, you can use Site Administration to:

  • Change your personal information and view your user properties.

  • If permitted, create and manage your own API keys.

For details, see Set user properties.

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Log in to or out of Site Administration

Site Administration is accessible from the ALM Options window.

To log in to Site Administration:

  1. Browse to your ALM URL:
    http://<ALM server name/IP address>[<:port number>]/qcbin.

    Contact your system administrator if you do not have the correct URL.

    For Single-Sign-On users:

    1. If the user discovery page is displayed, add your user name or email address as specified in ALM. Click Submit.
    2. In the IDP page, add your IDP credentials. Click the log in button.

  2. In the Application Lifecycle Management Options window, click Site Administration.

  3. In the Site Administration login page, enter your username and password.

To log out of Site Administration:

From the Site Administration masthead, click > Log Out.

  • When single sign-out is not enabled, it logs you out of Site Administration.

  • When single sign-out is enabled, it closes the Site Administration window and takes you to the qcbin page; you do not need to log in when opening Site Administration again. If you want to single sign out, click the single sign out link in the qcbin page.

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