AVEVA Administration

AVEVA Administration is supplied as a separate product and consists of the following modules:

• Admin

• Lexicon

Admin

Large projects designed using the application are usually broken down into individual areas (either physical areas or design areas), depending on the physical size, complexity and configuration of the project.

On a large project, the system administrator first agrees with project and design management, the breakdown of the application project into sections which:

• Are relevant to the needs of project reporting and control

• Form reasonable design subdivisions with sensible match-lines and design content

• Enable enough designers to work in parallel with simultaneous access to carry out their design tasks.

In much the same way as in a design office (with its section leader, draftspeople and so on), The application has Teams, the members of which are called Users. These Teams can consist of any number of Users and can be organized by discipline or physical work areas.

The main features are:

• Access Control (Teams and Users)

• Databases (DBs)

• Multiple Databases (MDBs)

• Database management functionality.

AVEVA Administration includes a database integrity checking utility, used to check for inconsistencies in the contents of the databases and to derive statistical information about the use of the database storage capacity.

Note:
AVEVA Administration also allows the system administrator to reconfigure a project, which may be necessary to:

• Compact databases at intervals, freeing disk space

• Upgrade the application projects when the database structure changes

• Compare the contents of two similar databases; for example, to create a modification record.

Lexicon

Lexicon is supplied as a module within the AVEVA suite of products and allows the system administrator to carry out the following:

• Create and modify User Defined Attributes (UDAs) and User Defined Element Types (UDETs)

• Group similar elements for administrative ease

• Delete elements

• View all available elements in a Explorer window

• Create and modify Database Views

• Create and modify the schema for distributed attributes.

Monitor

The Monitor module is commonly used to query the status of a projects users and access rights. Monitor allows basic querying of database information which normally can only be obtained using AVEVA Administration (which can only be accessed by a Free user).

Monitor can also be used to quickly change a password of the currently logged in user or completely switch to another user (if the user credentials are known).

Depending on the user type (Free or General), Monitor can be used to change access rights and defer databases. Batch processing and simply messaging can also be achieved.

If there is a problem with a project that inhibits another module from loading, then the software will automatically load the Monitor allowing simple diagnostics to be conducted using its command line interface (refer to Using Monitor for further information.).