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Expertise required to administer Jive

Here you can find typical roles and their professional expertise required to manage the Jive application.

Community Administrator​

Database Administrator​

  • Responsible for the administration of the database back-end to the Jive platform. The DBA configures, implements, provisions, and monitors databases supporting the Jive environment. The DBA is responsible for database sizing, resource allocation, backups, high-availability, and security of the database engines.
  • For more information on supported databases, see Supported database engines.

Directory Server Administrator​

  • If you plan to provision Jive users from a directory server, such as LDAP or Active Directory, you need in-house or consulting expertise in operating and maintaining enterprise-level directories.

Linux System Administrator​

  • The Linux System Administrator sets up and maintains Jive in a Linux environment. The Linux System Administrator performs upgrades, provisions, installs, configures, operates, and maintains the Jive system hardware, software, and related infrastructure.
  • For more information, see Administering Jive platform.

Storage Administrator​

  • The Storage Administrator provisions shared NAS/SAN storage for your Jive installation.
  • For more information, see Shared storage.
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