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Administration & Security

This section covers authentication, user management, permissions, and security configuration for Cortex Archive.


Data Sources

Manage source system database connections inside Cortex.

Licensing and editions

What your license enables, archive database entitlement, and expiry behavior.

How Cortex Archives Work

Understand how Cortex reads and displays archived data.

ServiceNow Table-Per-Hierarchy (TPH) Mirrors

Understanding the TPH storage model used by native ServiceNow mirrors.

Authentication

Authentication overview and SSO options.

Adding and managing users

For Cherwell deployments.

Auto-provisioning users with SCIM

Automatically create and manage user accounts.

Security groups and access control

For Cherwell deployments.

SQL Server security setup

Recommended read-only access configuration.

Granting Cortex admin access

Manually grant admin status using Cortex System Manager.

Recovering Cortex admin access

Emergency recovery when no current user has admin access, including a DBA database method.

Renaming a Cortex server

Update SAML configuration after changing the server's hostname.

Full-text search and indexed columns

Build and tune the indexes Cortex searches against.