System Admin

It’s your responsibility to oversee and manage your creative.space system, from setting up and configuring spaces to managing user accounts and ensuring the overall health and security of the system.

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Welcome to the creative.space platform! As a System Admin, you are the backbone of your team's workflow. It's your job to oversee and manage your creative.space server.

Let's walk through the functionalities that are important and unique to your role:

Create User Accounts - Set up the credentials your team will use to access the storage and creative.space applications.
Allocate Storage - Carve your storage up into virtual partitions and control how capacity is allocated across them.
Schedule and Delete Snapshots - Protect your data from accidental deletion, including ransomware attacks.
Configure Networking - Quickly view activity over each connection and change IP addresses as needed to make sure users have the access they need.
Onboard Remote Users - Set up remote access by receiving a node ID from the user’s desktop app and sending out a config file with a network ID.

Navigating the Web App

As a System Admin, you have the highest level of access to the creative.space web app, which is designed to make managing the system intuitive for non-technical users.

The web app has four pages: System, Team, Spaces, and Monitor.

System

When you first log into the web app, you will arrive at the System page. This page displays how the node's storage is allocated, how the node is connected to your network, who is connected to it, what tasks are running, and what hardware is inside the node.

This is your primary control center. From the System page, you can:

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Use the System page to:

You can also use the system section to:

Available Actions

Team

The Team page lists all of the user accounts that can access content on the node.

When you first log in, this page will contain two accounts:

Your admin account
A support account, which our support staff will use in case you need them to access the node.

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Use the team page to:

You can also use the team page to:

Let other people manage the node
Organize information about each of your team members
Deactivate user accounts

Available Actions

Spaces

The Spaces page is a file browser that shows you all of your content. When you first log in, the spaces page will be empty. As you upload content to the node, it will appear here.

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Use the spaces page to:

You can also use the spaces page to:

Tabs on the Spaces Page

Beyond the file browser, there are additional tabs on the spaces page designed for various media management tasks:

Spaces - Browse the spaces hosted on your creative.space node.
Ingest - Connect, browse, and copy from read-only external storage locations using USB, SMB, and FTP
Templates - Create folder structures with custom variables and permissions for your team to apply using a form.
Snapshots - Browse your snapshots and restore deleted and modified assets from them.
Libraries - Browse the contents of your spaces based on custom metadata tags.

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Available Actions

Monitor

The Monitor page offers real-time performance metrics, helping you preemptively tackle potential issues.

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This dashboard features gauges and graphs that display system resources over the past 10 minutes. Every second the node collects over 2,000 metrics, that can be presented as hundreds of charts, and is currently monitored by approximately 150 potential alarms. Some of these charts are displayed on this page.

Use the monitor section to: