Using Admin Tools

Objectives

After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

Use the Check Tool.
Enable Admin alerts.

Check Tool

Sometimes, you might find that your system doesn't work as expected. There can be different reasons like inconsistent data or that the system isn't configured correctly. To help analyze the reasons for errors, there's the Check Tool. With the Check Tool, you can identify what is wrong, rather than simply creating a ticket. The Check Tool helps you to find out what is wrong and how bad the problem is. Also, it suggests a solution.

Check Tool Prerequisites

The Check Tool – Permission Settings are displayed.

The Check Tool has its own permissions. The Access Check Tool permission authorizes users to access the tool.

Check Tool Usage

You access the tool from the Admin Center by searching for Check Tool.

The checks are grouped on tabs according to the check type they belong to. Each check type follows a specific purpose:

Migration: Checks that migrate features such as change basic rules to application-specific rule scenarios for several rules at once.
System Health: Checks that run periodically in the system and that require no input parameters.
Validation: Checks that need one or more input parameters to run, such as checks for determining eligible periods for getting accruals or why an employee is not eligible for accruals.
To perform a check, select one or more checks and then choose the Run Check button. The system then displays the results of the checks that you've run.

The result of a check can be one of the following:

No issues found.
X issues found, where "X" is the number of issues. In cases where issues are found, you see either a yellow warning icon or a red alarm icon.
- The yellow icon is a warning that something not too serious is wrong.
- The red icon indicates that the problem is serious. You must take action.
To view the details, including the proposed solution, select the details arrows next to the relevant check in the Result column .

The Check Tool: Proposed Solution is displayed.

Admin Alerts

The Admin Alerts 2.0 tile is a compact way to see all the pending action items you track throughout your system.

The tile displays the alerts that have come up. It's used by the system and/or HR admins to manage data integrity, as well as to ensure that system admins are aware of certain processes stalling.

You can either select the specific alert to display the detail or select See More to display a list of all the alerts. You can then process them as you need to. Data accessible in the alerts page is controlled by RBP.

Access to Admin Alerts

The Admin Alerts: RBP Permission are displayed.

To use Admin Alerts 2.0, you need to assign the permission to the appropriate system / HR admins:

To view the tile, select Admin Alerts→Administrator Permissions→Access Admin Alerts.
To view data within the Alert Tile, select Metadata Framework→Admin access to MDF OData API.
Select Admin Alerts Object Permissions.

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