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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.
Diagnostics
To help administrators troubleshoot any issues with their systems, Seeker provides diagnostic tools.

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.
    - Gather Diagnostics
      If you experience any issues with Seeker, gather diagnostics and pass them on to Support to help diagnose and resolve these issues.
    - Use Diagnostic Utility
      If an Agent could not connect to the Seeker server, you can identify potential problems using the Seeker diagnostic utility.
    - View Background Jobs
      View and explore the up-to-date information about all the background jobs on the Seeker server that are currently running, scheduled, or completed.
  - Backup and Restore
    Seeker provides several options to back up and restore the detection and configuration data that is stored on the Seeker server.
- 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.

Diagnostics

To help administrators troubleshoot any issues with their systems, Seeker provides diagnostic tools.

With these tools you can perform the following operations: