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Administration Guide
Administration, configuration, and management tasks needed for the optimal use of Seeker
Maintenance
To ensure your Seeker system's health, perform periodic maintenance tasks.
Backup and Restore
Seeker provides several options to back up and restore the detection and configuration data that is stored on the Seeker server.

Administration Guide
Administration, configuration, and management tasks needed for the optimal use of Seeker
- System Administration
  Seeker provides a set of tools that enable administrators to configure, customize, and fine-tune various features and capabilities of the system, as well as integrate external tools.
- User Administration
  Introduces the Seeker role-based access control (RBAC) concept, and outlines the user administration tasks.
- Project Administration
  Management and configuration tasks that Seeker administrators can perform for projects.
- Maintenance
  To ensure your Seeker system's health, perform periodic maintenance tasks.
  - Diagnostics
    To help administrators troubleshoot any issues with their systems, Seeker provides diagnostic tools.
  - Backup and Restore
    Seeker provides several options to back up and restore the detection and configuration data that is stored on the Seeker server.
    - Hot Backup and Restore
      Seeker can be configured to perform scheduled hot backup of Seeker detection and configuration data. Additionally, you can perform such backup on demand at any time, and then restore data from it using the CLI.
    - Cold Backup and Restore
      When updating to a new version, or migrating an existing installation of Seeker to another machine, you might want to perform a cold back up of the Seeker data, and then restore it in an appropriate location.
- Using APIs
  Seeker provides a set of Web (REST) APIs that expose its basic functionality. You can use these APIs to automate various administration tasks, such as managing projects, exporting vulnerabilities or creating a diagnostic dump.
- Appendix A. Seeker Environment Variables
  Seeker uses a number of operating system (OS) environment variables and Java Virtual Machine (JVM) properties that administrators can configure to customize and fine-tune the behavior of Seeker server and Agents.

Backup and Restore

Seeker provides several options to back up and restore the detection and configuration data that is stored on the Seeker server.

Hot backup/restore: back up and restore data on the fly when the server is up and running. Can be performed on demand using CLI, or automatically on schedule.
- Hot Backup and Restore
- Configure Automatic Hot Backup
Cold backup/restore: back up and restore data when the server is stopped.
Cold Backup and Restore