Administration Area Overview

Provided that you have sufficient permissions, you can enter YouTrack Administration area by clicking *Administration* in the top navigation bar of YouTrack:
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Administration area consists of the following pages:
* *Projects*. This is an overview of existing issue tracking projects, with options to [create a new project|Creating New Project] or [import an existing project|Importing a Project from JIRA] from a JIRA instance:
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See [Managing Projects].
* *Users*. This is a list of registered YouTrack users with filters and a link to user registration page:
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See [Managing Users].
* *Groups*. This page lists and describes existing user groups, and provides an option to [create new groups|Managing User Groups]:
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See [Managing User Groups]
* *Roles*. This is a list of roles currently configured in YouTrack instance, with detailed permissions associated with them:
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See [Managing Roles].
* *Issue Link Types*. This is a list of issue links configured in the current YouTrack instance:
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YouTrack comes with 3 predefined link types but you can configure your own types.

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When you first open YouTrack after installation, you are automatically navigated to the *Setup* screen, which is alike to the *Settings* page, but have some differences. For more information, refer to the [Initial Setup] page.
* *Database Backup*. This page lets you switch YouTrack database between read-write and read-only states, monitor database performance data, as well as schedule, configure, and retrieve database backups:
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See [Managing Database] section for further details.
* *Text Index*. This page lets you configure languages to take account of during text indexing, and provides a button to suspend it:
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Suspending text indexing is useful when a massive amount of documents to index considerably impairs server performance (for example, in peak hours). Another use case is to suspend text indexing for creating a backup right after you have imported a new project.
See [Managing Text Indexing Settings].
* *Statistics*. Use this page to view usage statistics for your YouTrack installation. Currently, it has the following tabs:
** *Telemetry*
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** *Browsers Usage*:
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* *Entity Browser*. This is a simple YouTrack database viewer for troubleshooting purposes. If something goes completely wrong with your YouTrack installation, you might have to report some entity data from this page:
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* *JIRA Integration*. This page incorporates JIRA integration settings:
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See [Importing a Project from JIRA].
* *Custom Fields*. this section contains the list of all currently configured custom field in Youtrack instance, and provides options to create, edit custom fields, and attach a field to a project.
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see [Managing Custom Fields].
* *LDAP Integration*. This page helps configure YouTrack to allow users in your company to log in using credentials stored in your directory service:
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See [LDAP Integration].
* *Maibox Integration*. This page allows configuring integration with a mailbox in order to automatically create issues from emails pulled from a specified mailbox.
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See [Mailbox Integration].
* *OpenID Integration*. This page lets you enable any or all of five OpenID providers supported by YouTrack:
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See [OpenID Integration].
* *TeamCity Integration*. This page helps integrate YouTrack with [JetBrains TeamCity|http://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity/] for linking issues to VCS commits and automatically filling "Fixed in build" attribute values:
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See [Integration with TeamCity].
* *Workflow*. This page contains a list of all available workflows in the current YouTrack instance, and provides options to attach workflow to projects, import and export workflows, restore default workflows.
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See [Workflow Guide].