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Administrating MarkLogic Server

Accessing the Admin Interface

Only authorized administrators can log into the Admin Interface. An authorized administrator is a user who has the admin role or has the admin-ui-user role. Authorized administrators with the admin role have access to all administrative tasks in MarkLogic Server; therefore, authorized administrators are trusted personnel and are assumed to be non-hostile, appropriately trained, and following proper administrative procedures.

Users with the admin-ui-user role may view the Admin Interface but do not have access to data or the ability to make administrative changes. For more about the admin-ui-user role, see The admin-ui-user Role.

To access the Admin Interface, follow these steps:

  1. Start MarkLogic Server.

  2. Open http://localhost:8001/.

    Note

    If you are not accessing the Admin Interface from the same system on which MarkLogic Server is running, you will have to use the IP address or domain name of the server instead of localhost.

  3. Log in with your admin username and password. The summary screen for the Admin Interface appears:

    The summary screen for the Admin Interface

    Note

    If you have already logged on as an admin user during this session, you do not have to log in again.

From the summary screen, you can see and click on many of the items configured in MarkLogic Server. The summary screen displays all of the databases, app servers, groups, forests, security objects, and hosts configured for your system. If you click on any object or category, the Admin Interface takes you to a more detailed page for the object or category.

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