system administrator

System administrator is the common administrator role for the AgilePoint NX Portal. Any registered AgilePoint NX user can be assigned the system administrator role. There is no limit to the number of users who can be assigned the system administrator role. The system administrator role is subordinate to the NX Portal Administrator.

Note: The system administrator role is different from the AgilePoint NX System Administrator. The AgilePoint NX System Administrator is one person, independent of any accounts or permissions. System administrator is a security role that can be assigned to any NX Portal user.

This table shows the permissions for the system administrator role.

Applies to Deployment Types

Permissions

System Permissions Notes

AgilePoint NX Portal tenant
  • You can have more than one AgilePoint NX account with the system administrator role.
  • You can add administrator role types with different access rights. The default system administrator role is not the only type of administrator role that you can create in the NX Portal.
  • For more information, refer to Add System Administrators

How To Add the System Administrator Role to a User or Group

  • By default, in OnPremises or PrivateCloud environments, the NX Portal Administrator is assigned the System Administrator role when you install AgilePoint NX.
  • By default, in OnDemand environments, the system administrator role is assigned to the first user added to an environment when you sign up for AgilePoint NX environment.
  • To add the system administrator role to other users or groups, refer to Add System Administrators.

Good to Know

  • These administrator types have similar names, and they are easy to confuse:
    • The AgilePoint NX System Administrator is a person who is responsible for several administrator accounts and roles. In most cases, there is one primary AgilePoint NX System Administrator, but this is not a technical limitation.
    • A Tenant Administrator is a person who is resonsible for one AgilePoint Server tenant. In multi-tenant environments, each tenant can have its own administrator, but this is not a technical limitation.
    • The AgilePoint System Account is a set of credentials for managing AgilePoint Server. There can be only one AgilePoint System Account. In most cases, one human user is assigned these credentials.
    • The AgilePoint Service Account is a set of credentials AgilePoint Server uses to connect with other systems. There can be only one AgilePoint Service Account. Only the AgilePoint Server software uses these credentials, and they are not assigned to a human user. However, the AgilePoint NX System Administrator is usually responsible for maintaining these credentials.
    • The NX Portal Administrator is a master administrator role for the NX Portal. There can be only one NX Portal Administrator. In the NX Portal, this role is simply referred to as Administrator.

      The NX Portal Administrator is assigned on the Tenant Settings, so this can be easily confused with the Tenant Administrator. However, it is not a technical requirement that the Tenant Administrator and the NX Portal Administrator are the same person.

    • System administrator is a security role on the NX Portal. Any number of users can be assigned the system administrator role.

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