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The information contained in this section applies to IBM WebSphere Commerce Version 7.0.0.9 and Feautre Pack 8. The documentation also applies to all subsequent releases and modifications until otherwise indicated in new editions.
Administering
Overview of administering a WebSphere Commerce site
In WebSphere Commerce the person who performs administrative tasks is called a Site Administrator. The Site Administrator installs, configures, and maintains WebSphere Commerce and the associated software and hardware. The administrator responds to system warnings, alerts, and errors, and diagnoses and resolves system problems. Typically, this person controls access and authorization (creating and assigning members to the appropriate role), manages the Web site, monitors performance, and manages load balancing tasks. The Site Administrator might be responsible for establishing and maintaining several server configurations for different stages of development such as testing, staging, and production. The Site Administrator also handles critical system backups and resolves performance problems.
Organization Administration Console
The Organization Administration Console enables administrators to manage organizations, business users and member groups. Access Control policies can also be managed and approval requests can be processed.
Organizations
An organizational entity is a type of member in WebSphere Commerce. An organizational entity is classified into one of three types: an organization, an organization unit, or an authorization domain. For site administrators, one of your first tasks after installing and configuring WebSphere Commerce is setting up and managing access to your e-commerce site. This process involves creating organizations that participate at your site, and defining users that are members of those organizations. After an instance is created, you can publish a starter store that defines the organization structure. Sometimes, organizations joining your site might be buyer organizations. In other cases, you might have customers registering at your site who are engaged in a business-to-consumer relationship with your business. Defining the organizational structure of site is an important step in managing the types of access that members have to your system.
Finding organizations
Use the Organization Administration Console to find organizations.
Finding an organization's distinguished name (DN)
You might need to know the distinguished name of an organization, for example, when creating a hosted reseller or distributor service agreement or publishing a store from the command line.

Finding an organization's distinguished name (DN)

You might need to know the distinguished name of an organization, for example, when creating a hosted reseller or distributor service agreement or publishing a store from the command line.

Procedure

Open the Organization Administration Console.
Click Access Management > Find Organizations. A list of organizations for the site display.
Find the organization for which you need the distinguished name.
Select the check box next to the organization and click Change.
The Change Organization notebook opens.
Make note of the DN in the Distinguished name field.
The following example illustrates a DN for an organization:
```
o=A Special Organization,o=Distributor Organization,o=Root Organization
```
Click Cancel to return to the list of organizations.