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# Administrator Guide

> **Status:** Partially migrated. Current SSO and local upgrade/recovery procedures are available; held procedures are labeled non-operative.

This book is the canonical home for installation, configuration, deployment, routine operations, security controls, incident response, and recovery. User workflows belong in [`USER-GUIDE/`](../USER-GUIDE/); implementation and contributor material belongs in [`DEVELOPER-GUIDE/`](../DEVELOPER-GUIDE/).

## Start here

- [Documentation atlas](../README.md) — placement rules and source-of-truth boundaries.
- [Documentation sitemap](../SITEMAP.md) — resolvable current navigation and authority-gated migration summary.
- [Product requirements](../PRD.md) — normative requirements, currently marked draft.
- [Operations index](operations/README.md) — current local procedures and explicitly held operational outlines.
- [Security index](security/README.md) — current SSO provider configuration.

## Chapter map

| Chapter                               | Scope                                                               | Status                                                                  |
| ------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `installation/`                       | Prerequisites, installation, and first deployment.                  | Scaffold only.                                                          |
| `configuration/`                      | Environment, provider, tier, and runtime configuration.             | Scaffold only.                                                          |
| `deployment/`                         | Topologies, rollout, migration, and upgrade procedures.             | Scaffold only.                                                          |
| [`operations/`](operations/README.md) | Health, observability, routine operation, and maintenance.          | Local upgrade/recovery is current; connector lease operations are held. |
| [`security/`](security/README.md)     | Authentication, authorization, SSO, secrets, and security controls. | SSO provider guide is current; other pages are planned.                 |
| `recovery/`                           | Incident response, backup, rollback, and recovery.                  | Scaffold only.                                                          |

Every promoted page must be added to this index and to [`SITEMAP.md`](../SITEMAP.md) in the same migration slice.

## Evidence — not current operator guidance

- [`P8-003 performance report`](../reports/qa/p8-003-performance-optimization.md) — historical performance evidence; implementation alignment is partial, and production metrics remain unverified. It is not an operational SLO or runbook.

## Migration backlog — not current operator guidance

These are source candidates, not verified runbooks:

- `_old_structure/guides/admin-guide.md` — quarantined historical source; verify claims before promotion.
- `_old_structure/guides/deployment.md` — quarantined historical source; deployment commands and assumptions remain held.
- See the [documentation catalog](../reports/documentation/2026-08-10-docs-catalog-audit.md) for file-level dispositions.

Do not treat a migration candidate as current until its commands, paths, permissions, and safety status are checked against source and tests.

## Authoring boundary

New administrator documentation belongs under one of the chapter directories above. Operationally sensitive pages must identify prerequisites, ownership, source-of-truth dependencies, and whether any procedure is current, illustrative, held, or non-operative.

## Related

- [[README|Documentation contract]]
- [[PRD|Product requirements]]
- [[DEVELOPER-GUIDE/architecture/README|Architecture index]]
