Additional documentation on FRED would be very helpful.

I would like to recommend that you include material on the following:

1. Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA)  - registrar connections

2. Digital certiifcates in AAA

3. Logs or logging

4. fred-client

5. EPP and FRED

6. Backup and restore

That would even be moire helpful

Regards,

Paulos
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Dr Paulos B Nyirenda
NIC.MW & .mw ccTLD
http://www.registrar.mw


On 19 Jul 2016 at 17:53, Zuzana Lena Ansorgova wrote:

> Dear users of the FRED,
>
> I am a technical writer of the CZ.NIC and I'm currently working on a new
> administration manual for the FRED.
> I think you are of those who would appreciate this new piece of
> documentation and therefore, I would like to ask you about your opinions
> on what topics this manual should comprise, which questions it should
> answer and what else you would expect from it.
>
> I've attached my first (though only very rough) draft of the contents of
> this manual for inspiration and/or comments. (Please, ignore the order
> of the topics for now, that will be dealt with later.)
>
> Your insight would be very helpful. Thanks for your time!
>
> Best regards,
> Lena
> Technical Writer @ CZ.NIC
>

FRED Administration Manual
Structure design
July 2016
Lena

Audience: administrator, customer support
Purpose: make the system work and keep it operational (installation, configuration, settings, customization, maintenance), using administrator interface and tools for manual intervention, setting automated tasks
Contents/Topics:
System Requirements
Installation / (? Deployment Guide)
           Installation from binaries
           Installation from source
Configuration and Customization
           (?) Overview of executables and the default config.files
           Configurable Parameters Reference
           Configurable Database Values 

Registry Initialization
           Setting up a zone, price list, invoicing, logging...
Periodic/Automated Tasks (Cron)
           Domain expirations, deactivations, removals
           Registrar and Registrant notifications
           Payment checks
           Zonefile generations
Administration of … Subsystem ???, e.g.:
Administration of Logging Subsystem
Administration of Notification Subsystem
           Administration of Messaging Subsystem
           Administration of Mailing Subsystem
           Administration of File Managing Subsystem
Administration of Invoicing Subsystem
Administration of Genzone Subsystem
Administration of Tech-Check Subsystem
Zone Administration
           registrar authorization/accreditation,
           operation pricing,
           nameserver association
Registrar Administration (CLI/web?)
Domain Administration (the „system registrar“)
Billing/Invoicing subsystem
           Prepaid/postpaid model — per operation / invoice prefix
           Price list — per op per zone
           Setting/disabling VAT
           Invoice templates and parameters

Administration via the CLI
           Command Index/Reference (? generated from program help)

Administration via a web interface (Daphne):
WebAdmin User Manual (separately from the FRED Admin.Manual)
           Search
           Registrar Administration
           Domain (De)Activation
           Contact Validation
           Access Control (users and permissions)
           …
+ WebAdmin Feature Document (separately from the main FRED Feature Document)

Extensions
           MojeID
Domain Browser