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Understanding the Meridian Enterprise Administrator

Use the Meridian Enterprise Administrator tool to manage the various Meridian services described in About the architecture of Meridian. It is opened from the Meridian program group of the Windows Start menu and looks similar to the following figure.

Warning    We recommend that access to the administration tools be secured by only installing them (Administrator component in the setup packages) on the computers used by authorized system administrators. For additional server security requirements, see Understanding the Meridian server privileges.

When you select an item in the left pane, its contents appear in the right pane, which you can use to configure the item. The properties of each item can be used to configure additional options. The toolbar displays various buttons depending on the selected item as described in the following topics.