PowerSchool University2012

System Administrator:Server Settings

Trainer Name

Trainer/Consultant

Agenda

• Welcome and Introductions

• PowerSchool Administrator

• Flashback and Data Pump

• Tomcat and Syncing

• ODBC

• Review

System Administrator

One-Stop Shop

On the Start Page, click PS Administrator

Tools of the Trade

Now It’s Your Turn

Complete hands-on activities 1-4:

Adding and Editing PowerSchool Administrator Accounts

Checking the Database Configuration

Checking Scheduled Jobs

Disc Info and Recovery Area

Backups and Restoring

Backup System

• Full backups

• Incremental backups

• Flashback

• All backups are “hot”

Weekly

Nightly

Tracks everything in between

Flashback

• Records all transactions since last incremental backup

• Takes more space than a backup

• Goes back seven days

Data Pump

ExportDropSchema Import

Set Up a Test Server

ProductionServer

TestServer

Export ImportDrop

Schema

Demonstration

Watch as your presenter demonstrates Data Pump

(Steps are in activity 5: Data Pumping to a Test Server)

Managing Tomcat

Serving Applications

• PowerSchool

• PowerSchool administrator

• PowerTeacher gradebook

• PowerTeacher administrator

• ReportWorks

Tomcat

Stop and Start

Demonstration

Watch as your trainer performs a demonstration of stopping and starting

Tomcat.

Data Logs and Server Syncing

Keeping Track

Primary Logs:

• PowerSchool

• Java

• Oracle

Java

Programming language often used in database applications; runs in the Java Virtual Machine

Syncing

PowerTeachergradebook

Milan Tables PowerSchoolTables

Errors: Atomic Mode

PowerTeachergradebook

Milan Tables PowerSchoolTables

Error!!!Data Invalid!

No Changes Recorded

Errors: Non-Atomic Mode

PowerTeachergradebook

Milan Tables PowerSchoolTables

Error!!!Data Invalid!

Changes recordedhere only

Now It’s Your Turn

Your trainer will lead you through hands-on

activities 6-7:

Examining Logs

Syncing

Time for

Review

A B

C DAn application server

A business department at MIT

A tool to manage your database

A page to manage student data

What is PowerSchool System Administrator?

Question 1

A B

C D

Answer 1

An application server

A business department at MIT

A tool to manage your database

A page to manage student data

What is PowerSchool System Administrator?

A B

C DYour server’s nickname

An application server

A cat who roams about

A page to assign gradebooks

What is Tomcat?

Question 2

A B

C D

What is Tomcat?

Answer 2

An application server

A page to assign gradebooks

Your server’s nickname

A cat who roams about

A B

C DPowerTeacher Administrator

An application server Oracle

A page to assign gradebooks

What is a Tomcat-managed system to manage gradebook settings?

Question 3

A B

C D

Answer 3

PowerTeacher Administrator

An application server Oracle

A page to assign gradebooks

What is a Tomcat-managed system to manage gradebook settings?

A B

C DGlobal Synchronization

Check the registrar’s accuracy Atomic mode

Help you fix database errors

What do you use Data validation reports for?

Question 4

A B

C D

Answer 4

Global Synchronization

Check the registrar’s accuracy Atomic mode

Help you fix database errors

What do you use Data validation reports for?

Key Points from Today’s Class• Use PowerSchool Administrator to check backups

and scheduled processes, look for alerts, and manage custom pages

• Remember that PowerSchool makes a full backup weekly, incremental backups nightly, and stores transactions so you can roll them back

• Use Data Pump to retrieve the data from your database, and use that data file to start a test server

• Connect to your server with Remote Desktop Connection and check the server log

• Use Special Operations to for special circumstances—particularly when you encounter syncing errors

Question and Answer

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