Explorer Admin Tool

The Explorer Admin Tool performs key administrative operations for the Tidal Explorer Service including:

Configuration of the Explorer environments, Tidal instances, and database connections used by the Explorer service

  • Explorer License management

  • Management of the Explorer Clients connected to the Explorer Service

The Admin Tool also displays dashboard overviews of the configured Masters and databases.

Explorer Configuration Terms and Definitions

A Tidal Explorer Configuration is a hierarchical model comprised of these elements:

All Environments:

  • 1 or more Tidal Environment

  • 1 or more Tidal Instance

    • 1 Tidal Server

      • 1 PM (Primary Master) (Host/Port/SSL)

      • 0..1 BM (Backup Master) (Host/Port/SSL)

      • 0..1 FM (Fault Monitor) (Host/Port/SSL)

      • 1 or more DB Connection

        • 1 LiveMaster DB

        • 0 or more Historic DB backups (backups of the LiveMaster)

  •  1 or more Explorer User

    •  0 or more User DB References

Tidal Environment is a collection of related Tidal instances.

Example: Tidal environment could comprise three Tidal Instances: Dev, UAT, and Production, where jobs are developed in Dev, tested in UAT, and run in Production.

Tidal Instance represents a currently running Tidal Master and its LiveMaster DB and zero or more online backups of the LiveMaster DB. Alternatively, the Tidal instance may represent a Tidal Master that is no longer active and may contain a LiveMaster DB (that is no longer being actively used by a Tidal Master). A Tidal instance may include a Tidal Server, a LiveMaster DB, and zero or more Historic DB backups.

TidalServer represents the connection URL information for a Tidal Master in a simple Primary Only configuration. In a Fault Tolerant Tidal configuration, it includes information for the Primary Master (PM), Backup Master (BM) and Fault Monitor (FM).

LiveMaster DB represents the MSSQL, PostgreSQL or Oracle DB connection information supporting connection and read access to the Admiral DB in use by the configured Tidal Master.

Historic Online DB backup represents the MSSQL, PostgreSQL, or Oracle DB connection information allowing connection and read access to an Historic Online DB backup of the Live Master DB.

Explorer User represents a Tidal Explorer User.