Admin
The Admin Home page provides functionality for managing users, group, spaces, orchestration, Job Monitoring, and SAML configuration.
Access the Admin Home Page by clicking the Admin icon.
The Admin 2.0 Home page has the following tiles:
- User Management
- Groups
- Space Management
- Orchestration
- Monitoring
- Shared Connections
- Agents
- Audit Trail
- SAML Configuration
User Management
Account Admins can add new users to an account using the Admin 2.0 interface.
Select User Management. From User Management, you can add single users or bulk upload users. See Manage Users in Admin 2.0 for more information.
Groups
Birst Account Administrators can manage user groups at the account level, in addition to the existing space level groups. See Groups Management in Admin 2.0.
Space Management
Space Management allows admins to manage spaces, groups, and variables. See Space Management in Admin 2.0.
Orchestration
Orchestration provides a module to create and mange workflows for data extraction, processing, and space operations such as duplicating and swapping spaces. See Orchestration.
Monitoring
Monitoring allows Account Administrators to view running jobs at an entire account level. See Monitor Scheduled Reports in Admin 2.0.
Shared Connections
The Shared Connection feature creates a connection at an account level that you can be reuse across spaces within your account. See Shared Connections.
Agents
The Birst Cloud Agent is a lightweight cloud managed Java application that enables you to make connections to sources behind your organization's firewall for extract to Birst or for Live Access to the sources behind a firewall. See Birst Cloud Agent.
Audit Trail
Audit Trail allows admins to view a log of actions taken in Birst. See Audit Trail.
SAML Configuration
Birst can integrate with Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) 2.0 for Identity Provider (IdP) initiated access. Birst supports using SAML for authentication, including passing session-scoped parameters and just- in-time user provisioning. Birst supports SAML providers such as Okta, OneLogin, date for JIRAPing Identity, and Site Minder.