Getting Started with Automic Automation for Administrators: Initial Setup

These topics are a Getting Started guide for system administrators that are new to Automic Automation. They introduce you to the main concepts that you must know to be able to setup and configure your system. Understanding these concepts and their dependencies is necessary to manage and monitor it.

Once you have successfully installed your system, you can log in to the Automic Web Interface and start setting it up. Make sure you have prepared your browser accordingly. For more information, see Preparing Your Browser for AWI.

Tip: For information and examples about how to benefit from the Automic Web Interface and browser features, see Tips and Tricks in AWI. You might also want to open multiple connections to work on different Clients, see New Connection.

Important! Use a consistent naming policy for your objects. For detailed information on naming rules, best practices and examples, see Best Practices: Naming Conventions.

In the following topics, we provide information related to login on, client and user management, and the administrative objects that you need to set up your system. All topics provide links to related articles, descriptions, and instructions within the product documentation. Read the topics in the following order:

1. Getting Started with Automic Automation for Administrators: Prerequisites for the Initial Setup
2. Getting Started with Automic Automation for Administrators: Login, Passwords and Home Dashboard
3. Getting Started with Automic Automation for Administrators: System Configuration
4. Getting Started with Automic Automation for Administrators: Clients and Agent Assignment
5. Getting Started with Automic Automation for Administrators: Client Configuration
6. Getting Started with Automic Automation for Administrators: Users and User Groups
7. Getting Started with Automic Automation for Administrators: Objects in Client 0
8. Getting Started with Automic Automation for Administrators: Housekeeping in Automic Automation

You will perform many of your administrative tasks from the Administration perspective. If you want to take a deeper look at these tasks after you are done with the Getting Started guide, read the following topics:

• Walkthrough of the Administration Perspective
• Common Functions
• Configuring Automic Automation
• Administering Automic Automation
• Managing your Automic Automation System

As a system administrator, you are also responsible for the system's security. This task comprises topics such as access control, password policies, network communication and encryption, system hardening, and so on. For more information, see Security and System Hardening.

Education

The Broadcom Software Academy provides a wide range of free online trainings. For information about how to navigate through the Academy and on how to register for courses, see Free Online Courses.

This section includes the following pages:

Getting Started with Automic Automation for Object Designers: Initial Design: Getting Started for developers and object designers