System administrator tasks (CE)

The system administrator is the contact person between a company and LN. The application administrator is responsible to find a solution for the questions and problems brought forward by the LN users. If required, this task will be performed by contacting one of the Global Support Centers.

The system administrator must frequently reorganize the database tables because the disk space of deleted records will not immediately be given back to the system. In other words, although many records in a table are deleted, the size of the table itself will not become smaller. Only after the table has been reorganized will the disk space of the deleted records become available on the system. Reorganizing the database tables becomes very important when many records in tables are deleted.

LN can create several temporary files that, after use, are no longer useful. To save disk space, the system administrator must remove the temporary files on a regular basis.

Before a user can work with LN, the system administrator must first define the user data. To avoid the unauthorized use of programs, user authorizations are defined in roles that can be linked to the individual users.

If LN sends an update of the LN software, the system administrator must install the update on the system as soon as possible.

Some application programs must run on a regular basis. The system administrator is responsible to run these programs, for example, to update statistics and to print and remove stock transactions.

Data about the system and the application is stored in a system log.