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Master Administrator

The Master Administrator (MA) is the super user of the system, who has unrestricted access to the whole system. The scope of an MA is All Organizations, as a result of which they can manage all existing organizations and the organizations that will be created by them or any other administrator in the future.

The primary responsibilities of an MA are to:

• Initialize (Bootstrap) the system after installation.
• Configure the UDS connection parameters.
• Configure the global settings for organizations and cache refresh settings for the Administration Console and for User Data Service.
• Configure custom locales.
• Set the Default organization.
• Enable authentication and authorization for Web Services.
• Configure the CA AuthMinder Server communication parameters.
• Configure and manage CA AuthMinder Server instances.
• Configure the CA AuthMinder Server protocol settings.
• Configure the authentication mechanism for the Administration Console and Server components and other miscellaneous settings.
• Register plug-ins, if you want to extend the feature offering from CA AuthMinder using custom plug-ins.

  Note: For more information about how to register a plug-in, see Registering and Updating Plug-Ins. For more information about configuring the plug-in, see Configuring Plug-Ins.

• Create and manage organizations.
• Create and manage administrators of any role (Global, Organization, or User Administrator), as required.
• Create and Manage Custom Roles.
• Generate instance statistics.

After successful deployment of Administration Console, log in for the first time as an MA. The MA account (masteradmin) is shipped with a default password (master1234!). We recommend that you change this password after you log in for the first time.

To track and analyze data, an MA can generate a comprehensive report of all the administrator activities. Also generate a report for the activities of other administrators in the system. In addition, they can also generate reports for all organizations and reports for all server configurations.

Reset the Master Administrator Password

Use the following procedure if your MA account password is locked because of multiple failed password attempts.

Run the arcot-masteradmin-password-reset-2.0.sql script to reset your password. This script is available in the <INSTALL_HOME>\dbscripts\<database>\ folder. After you run the script, the MA must log in to Administration Console using the default password and must reset the password.