Sun Java System Communications Services Delegated Administrator

Introduction

Delegated Administrator distributes your user administration workload through a hierarchy of administrators and individuals. Based on the access privileges associated with your User ID, you can create the following types of administrators using the Delegated Administrator:

Top-Level Administrator (TLA)
Service Provider Administrator (SPA)
Organization Administrator (OA).

The following sections provides information on these roles and responsibilities of

Top-Level Administrator

As a Top-Level Administrator (TLA), you can create and manage organizations, mailing lists, user accounts, groups, and Calendar resources.

The Top-Level Administrator can

Create, modify, delete, search, organizations
Create, modify, delete, and search users, groups, and Calendar resources in organizations
Assign Top-Level Administrator roles and Organization Administrator roles to users in organizations
Allocate and remove service packages for organizations
Assign and remove service packages for users and groups

Service Provider Administrator

As a Service Provider Administrator (SPA), you can manage your provider organization and all organizations subordinate to your provider organization.

The Service Provider Administrators can

Create, modify, and delete organizations subordinate to the SPA’s own provider organization
Assign the Service Provider Administrator (SPA) role to other users in the SPA’s own organization
Allocate service packages to subordinate organizations and assign service packages to users and groups in those organizations
Create Organization Administrators (OAs) for subordinate organizations.
Create, modify, delete, and search users, groups, and Calendar resources in subordinate organizations.

Organization Administrator

The Organization Administrator manages users, groups, and Calendar resources within one organization.

For example, as an internet service provider (ISP), an organization may represent one of the many hosted companies. If you have a corporate intranet, an organization may represent the divisions of a single company. Organizations are useful for companies that wish to group users into sub-units within the organization. An organization might represent a department of employees within a division of a company. Each Organization Administrator can create and manage users and groups within the organization.

The Organization Administrator can perform the following tasks within the organization:

Create, delete, and modify users.
Create, delete, and modify groups.
Create, delete, and modify Calendar resources.
Assign the Organization Administrator role to other users in the organization.
Assign and remove service packages for users and groups.

The Organization Administrator cannot perform any of these tasks for users, groups, or resources outside the organization.