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SaaS administrator - Dashboard

Overview

Operating mode of the SaaS model

Main menu of SaaS administrator

Using the SaaS administrator

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SaaS administrator - Dashboard

Overview

The dashboard of the SaaS Administrator is used to quickly view the main information regarding the SaaS sites of a WEBDEV Application Server.

It includes the following elements:

The management links: these links propose the most common actions.
A chart displaying the 5 SaaS sites with the greatest number of assigned licenses.
The list of SaaS sites.

Operating mode of the SaaS model

The diagram below presents the six main elements involved in the SaaS model:

These elements are:

Element	Role

SaaS site	The SaaS site is a WEBDEV site deployed on a WEBDEV Application Server. It is associated with a SaaS Webservice used to control the site.
Service	The Services are the different features of a site.
Client Account	A Client Account represents a company that uses the SaaS site. Each Client Account includes its own database and its own custom version of the SaaS site (logo, graphics, etc.).
User	The Users are the members of the company represented by the Client Account. The users are the physical persons who are using the SaaS site.
Pricing	A Pricing represents a set of Services accessible by a User. A Pricing can include one or more Services. A Service can be proposed in one or more Pricing.
Subscription	A Subscription represents the availability of a number of licenses for a Pricing (and therefore of the associated Services) for a User Account. Then, these licenses must be be distributed among the Users. The Subscriptions are used to monitor the use of the SaaS site and the invoicing.

Main menu of SaaS administrator

The main menu gives access to all the management operations:

Dashboard: Back to the summary overview of the saaS sites of WEBDEV Application Server.
Sites
- Add a site: Used to declare a new SaaS site.
- Manage a site: Used to define the services, the pricing and the parameters of a SaaS site.
Customers
- Add a client account: Used to declare a new SaaS Client Account.
- Manage a client account: Used to handle the users associated with the client account as well as the Subscriptions.
Reports: Used to consult the statistics regarding the use of SaaS sites.

Using the SaaS administrator

To exploit a SaaS site, the following operations must be performed:

Deploying the SaaS site on a WEBDEV Application Server.
For more details, see: Deploying a site.
During the deployment, you have the ability to specify the address of the SaaS Webservice that will handle the site.
The SaaS Webservice can be located on the same application server as the site (by default) or on a different application server.
The operations for SaaS configuration will be performed thereafter via the SaaS Administrator located on the same application server as the Webservice.
Declaring the site in the SaaS Administrator.
For more details, see Adding a SaaS site into the Administrator.
Declaring the services proposed by the site in the SaaS Administrator.
For more details, see Managing a SaaS site in the administrator.
Creating the pricing for the site in the SaaS Administrator.
For more details, see Managing a SaaS site in the administrator.
Adding the client accounts into the SaaS Administrator.
For more details, see Adding a SaaS client account.
Adding one or more users for the SaaS client accounts.
For more details, see Managing the SaaS client accounts.
Subscribing the SaaS client accounts to the pricing of the SaaS site and assigning some licenses.
For more details, see Managing the SaaS subscriptions.

Remark: If you propose to send the security code to the user (forgotten password), you must configure the SMTP email serveur associated with the SaaS administrator. This configuration can be performed:

through programming, via SaaSAdminConfigureSMTP.
in the SaaS administrator, via the "SMTP configuration" link found in the dashboard.