First and foremost, the service provider administrator is responsible for setting up and maintaining xSP servers -- that is, protocol and database servers -- as well as any IBM® Lotus® Domino® clusters and network routers.
Although the hosted organization administrator can perform some of the user and group maintenance, the service provider administrator performs a significant amount of the administrative tasks required to maintain a hosted organization. At a minimum, the service provider administrator is responsible for registering and maintaining hosted organizations and controlling which applications the hosted organization uses. In addition, the service provider administrator must create and maintain a mechanism that the hosted organization's administrators use to communicate problems and issues that require the intervention of the service provider administrator.