.. _ag_start: ================================== Administering Ascender Deployments ================================== Learn how to administer Ascender deployments through custom scripts, management jobs, and DevOps workflows. This guide assumes at least basic understanding of the systems that you manage and maintain with Ascender. This guide applies to the latest version of Ascender only. The content in this guide is updated frequently and might contain functionality that is not available in previous versions. Likewise content in this guide can be removed or replaced if it applies to functionality that is no longer available in the latest version. .. toctree:: :maxdepth: 2 :numbered: self init_script custom_inventory_script scm-inv-source multi-creds-assignment management_jobs clustering containers_instance_groups instances topology_viewer logfiles logging metrics performance secret_handling security_best_practices awx-manage configure_ascender isolation_variables oauth2_token_auth social_auth ent_auth ldap_auth authentication_timeout kerberos_auth session_limits custom_rebranding troubleshooting tipsandtricks .. monitoring