# System administration elements

You can view the types of elements used for system administration and their descriptions.

Table 1. Types of elements for system administration
Element Type | Explanation
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Access Rights | Access Control Lists | Sets of elements that you can grant to one or more administrator accounts when assigning administrator rights.
Administrator Roles | Sets of actions that administrators are allowed to carry out both globally and specifically on some set of elements.
Administrators | SMC administrator accounts.
API Clients | Accounts for the users of the SMC Application Programming Interface (API).
Web Portal Users | User accounts for the Web Portal.
Alert Configuration | Alert Chains | Lists of administrators and contact methods for escalating Alerts.
Alert Policies | Rules for choosing which Alerts are escalated using which Alert Chain.
Alert Senders | System components that can send Alerts.
Alerts | Labels for Alerts that help in separating different Alerts from each other in Alert escalation.
Policy Snapshots | Saved versions of the alert configuration. Created each time you install or refresh the Alert Policy on a Domain.
Bookmarks | User-created shortcuts to views in the SMC Client.
Certificates | Certificate Authorities | Client Protection Certificate Authorities | Certificates that are used in TLS inspection for client protection.
ECA Evaluation Certificate Authorities | Certificates that are used in communications with ECA servers for evaluation of ECA.
Internal Certificate Authorities | Certificates that are used in communications between the system components.
Trusted Certificate Authorities | Certificates that identify certificate authorities that are trusted by the SMC and Security Engines.
Trusted Update Certificates | Certificates that are used to verify the digital signatures of dynamic update packages and engine upgrades. A new Trusted Update Certificate is automatically added through a dynamic update package before the old one expires.
Internal Certificates | Certificates that are used in communications between the system components.
TLS Credentials | Represent both certificate requests and signed certificates in the SMC Client. When a certificate request has been signed, the TLS Credentials element represents a certificate. TLS Credentials elements that represent signed certificates can be used in the properties of several types of elements to secure connections involving those elements.
Other Elements | TLS Cryptography Suite Sets | Define which cryptographic algorithms are allowed for encrypting TLS traffic.
TLS Profiles | Define the settings for cryptography, trusted certificate authorities, and the TLS version used in TLS-protected traffic.
Engine Upgrades | Packages for remote upgrades that have been manually or automatically imported into the system.
Licenses | The components’ licenses (proof of purchase).
Tasks | Definition | System maintenance Tasks and Task definitions.
History | History of running and executed Tasks both started by users and generated by the system.
Trash | Stores elements that you have deleted. You can permanently delete elements that have been moved to the Trash.
Updates | Dynamic update packages that update definitions in your installation. Most of the content is Situations (used in deep packet inspection).
Other Elements | Backups | Management Server and Log Server backups.
Categories | Allow filtering the view in the SMC Client to a subset of elements.
Domains | Create boundaries for managing elements and configurations based on administrator configurations.
Geolocations | Used for illustrating the geographical location of IP addresses (for example, in logs and diagrams).
Locations | Used for defining contact addresses when NAT (IP address translation) is applied to communications between system components.
Tools Profiles | Additional, user-configured commands and tools for components.