---
title: "Administering Luminesce (Sys.x)"
slug: "administering-luminesce-sys"
status: "update"
updated: 2026-01-12T13:32:37Z
published: 2026-01-12T13:32:37Z
canonical: "support.lusid.com/administering-luminesce-sys"
---

> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://support.lusid.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Administering Luminesce (Sys.x)

You can use the `Sys.*` providers supplied by FINBOURNE to administer Luminesce itself in various ways.

## Metadata

| **To interact with...** | **Read from using the ... provider** | **Write to using the ... provider** |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Information about the calling user (such as ID and domain) | [Sys.Connection](/v1/docs/sysconnection) | N/A |
| All [users](/v1/docs/what-are-a-personal-user-and-a-service-user) | [Sys.User](/v1/docs/sysuser) |
| All user [roles](/v1/docs/what-is-a-role) | [Sys.User.Role](/v1/docs/sysuserrole) |
| Tables, fields and parameters of [providers](/v1/docs/what-are-a-data-provider-and-a-direct-provider) | [Sys.Field](/v1/docs/sysfield) |
| Services, providers, clients available in Luminesce | [Sys.Registration](/v1/docs/sysregistration) |
| Provider/view metadata | [Sys.Registration.Metadata](/v1/docs/sysregistrationmetadata) | [Sys.Registration.Metadata.Writer](/v1/docs/sysregistrationmetadatawriter) |
| View and provider dependencies | [Sys.Dependency](/v1/docs/sysdependency) | N/A |

## View and entity providers

| **To interact with...** | **Read from using the ... provider** | **Write to using the ... provider** |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Configuring read/write entity provider pairs | N/A | [Sys.Admin.Lusid.Provider.Configure](/v1/docs/how-do-i-configure-luminesce-entity-providers-to-readwrite-properties#:~:text=Using%20the%C2%A0Sys.Admin.Lusid.Provider.Configure%20provider) |
| Custom views | N/A | [Sys.Admin.SetupView](/v1/docs/using-sysadminsetupview-to-create-custom-views) |

## Files

| **To interact with...** | **Read from using the ... provider** | **Write to using the ... provider** |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Files in Luminesce file system | [Sys.File](/v1/docs/sysfile) | `Sys.Admin.File.SaveAs` |
| All file history in Luminesce file system | [Sys.File.History](/v1/docs/sysfilehistory) | N/A |

## Luminesce logs

| **To interact with...** | **Read from using the ... provider** | **Write to using the ... provider** |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Successful provider calls | [Sys.Logs.HcProvider](/v1/docs/syslogshcprovider) | N/A |
| Successful queries | [Sys.Logs.HcQuery](/v1/docs/syslogshcquery) |
| Failed queries | [Sys.Logs.HcQueryError](/v1/docs/syslogshcqueryerror) |
| Queries (prior to executing) | [Sys.Logs.HcQueryStart](/v1/docs/syslogshcquerystart) |