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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.
Changing organizations
Use the Organization Administration Console to change the details of an organization, such as the name, description, business category, organization type, address, or contact information.
Changing the status of an organization (Channel Manager)
Use the Organization Administration Console to change the status of an organization.

Changing the status of an organization (Channel Manager)

Use the Organization Administration Console to change the status of an organization.

Procedure

Search for your organization.
On the Organizations page, select the check box next to your organization and click Lock/Unlock. The Status page displays.
Locking an organization prevents only the users who belong to that organization from logging into the system. To prevent other users such as registered customers from accessing the resources owned by a locked organization, you should close or suspend the store before you lock the organization. In addition, the Logon command only checks the ancestors of a user, not the ancestors of the store to which the customer logs on.
Click Lock or Unlock to lock or unlock the organization.
Click OK.