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The MySQL Administrator is a powerful graphical client tool designed to ease the administration and monitoring of the MySQL database server. Once installed, the MySQL Administrator connects to the specified database server and allows tasks such as adding users, monitoring the server performance and server connections and the backup and restoration of databases to be performed quickly and easily.
Note that whilst this tool is still available for some platforms, this functionality is is now provided using the ''MySQL Workbench '' tool, details of which may be found in the chapter entitled [[Administering and Monitoring MySQL using the MySQL Workbench]].
== Getting and Installing MySQL Administrator ==