Administration

Before proceeding,  it is recommended that Administrators subscribe to the Planning Analytics status page:
https://ibm.biz/CS_PAoC_Status
Current health and maintenance information of Planning analytics and its components can be found here should there be any issues.

For reference, planned maintenance is performed on the third Saturday of each month:  https://ibm.biz/CS_PAoC_MaintenanceSch

For a first look at Planning Analytics Administration your will need to log in to Planning Analytics Workspace.

In a browser,  open www.planning-analytics.ibmcloud.com
You will be presented with a list of environments that you have access to:

This takes you to the Administration section of Planning Analytics:

In the top right you can see a key icon (NB only subscription administrators will see this or have the ability to invite new users.
Selecting this will take you to an area where you can regenerate and download the latest welcome kit as well as regenerate modeler passwords.
https://ibm.biz/CS_PAoC_WelcomeKit_Download

The subscription usage tile details how many of each subscription is already in use and if there are any overages (use above your subscription entitlement).

The Databases section allows you to Add/remove/rename Databases as well as monitor and configure them.

The documentation covers adding a database through to threads and monitoring.  Setting threshold alerts helps identify issues that may occur and its recommended to configure these.

https://ibm.biz/CS_DBMonitorAdmin

Managing users and groups:
https://ibm.biz/CS_AdmUsersGroups

For more information on how to manage your entitlement for subscriptions, roles and user security see the following Blog:
https://ibm.biz/CS_PAoC_PPblog_SubRoleSecurity

Integrations allows you to integrate Planning Analytics with the IBM Decision Optimisation features of Cloud pak for data  (IBM Cloud version only).
With this integration you can perform advanced machine learning and optimization techniques on your Planning data to enhance the accuracy of your plans.
See: https://ibm.biz/CS_AdmIntegration

Life cycle management is used to package Planning Analytics Workspace content so it can be moved from one environment to another. For example, from development to production.
See: https://ibm.biz/CS_PA_LifeCycle

The Excel and Customisations tile is used to download Planning Analytics for Excel in addition to configuring system wide pallets, fonts and themes.
To create and apply a Theme please see: https://ibm.biz/CS_PAW_Theme
NB for further interface customization please see: https://ibm.biz/CS_PAW_Custom

Features and configuration has two main areas,  the first is a list of configuration parameters for the workspace as a whole i.e. to set an inactivity time out for workspace
The second area, features, is a dynamically changing list of feature flags available in the current workspace.  These options (feature flags) allow you to try a new feature that has been recently introduced before it becomes enforced in a future release (at which point it is removed from this area).
NB. Database specific configuration is found under the databases administration tile.

This section of administration is used to configure remote database access
see: https://ibm.biz/CS_PAoC_Conf_DBAccess

Other tasks of interest:

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