Administrator Guide
Everything you need to bring AI up, look inside it, and keep it safe. Installation is covered in Installation Overview.
Bringing it up and shutting it down
| What you want to do | Document |
|---|---|
| Start, stop, or restart services | Service Operations |
| Check status from the admin screen | AI Admin Console |
| Register an external model and issue a gateway API key | LLM in the AI Admin Console |
| Turn the tools AI may use on and off · users · branding · audit logs | Copilot Admin Console |
| Register the Teams and Slack channels automation sends results to, and set the allowed mail domains — if the domain list is empty, automation mail is off | Copilot Admin Console — Notification Channels |
| Set each person's role bundle, data scope, and document access level | Permissions — Role Bundles, Data Scopes, Document Levels |
| Set each person's work role (operator, line leader, maintenance, quality, plant manager) — what shows in the sidebar, where suggestions come from, approval authority | User Permissions and Work Roles |
| Designate a stand-in for approvals during leave or shift changes (delegation) · set expiry dates on partner accounts | Permissions — Two-Person Approval, Delegation, Partner Accounts |
| Connect MES, ERP, PLM, quality, maintenance, tooling, warehouse, test lab, safety, and scheduling — connector registration, conformance testing, linking the pieces | Digital Thread |
| See the tools each family's connector must expose, minimum versions, where they are used, and commercial adapters | Digital Thread Connectors |
| Find out which port is which | Service Port Map |
Looking inside
| What you want to do | Document |
|---|---|
| Read logs and measure metrics | Logging and Monitoring |
| Check that the plant graph mirror is running correctly | Digital Thread — Graph Mirror |
| See what the job readiness check (the verdict produced by the digital thread tools used in asking and automation) is based on | AI Admin Console — Readiness Sources |
| Find out why a digital-thread-only automation template is not showing in the gallery — it appears only when the required tools are present | Digital Thread — Where It Is Used in the Field and in Chat |
| Check the revision and parsing status of indexed drawings | AI Admin Console — Drawing Register |
| Check the transcription and indexing status of uploaded video and audio | AI Admin Console — Video |
| Judge answer quality from scheduled benchmark scores | Copilot Admin Console — Answer Quality |
| Administer the databases | Database Administration |
| See which tables exist | Database Model |
Keeping it safe
| What you want to do | Document |
|---|---|
| Change passwords and API keys | Changing Passwords and API Keys |
| Back up local volumes (source documents, knowledge graph, TLS certificates, and so on) | Database Administration |
Do this immediately after installation
Do not skip Changing the Initial Password.