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titleChanges to scopes in from Abiquo 4.0
  • Now administrators assign scopes to Abiquo users. In previous versions, administrators assigned scopes to Abiquo roles and the global scope was the default
    • During the upgrade process to version 4.0, Abiquo assigns role scopes to users
  • All enterprises must now have a default scope for creating users
  • Administrators can now create optional hierarchies of scopes and share resources, such as templates and specs, with tenants at lower levels of their hierarchies


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An unlimited scope is always at the top of the scope hierarchy, which means it cannot have a parent scope. An  An unlimited scope has new resources added automatically, so you will not need to modify it to include new enterprises or datacenters. To  To create an unlimited scope for enterprises and/or datacenters, you must be logged in as a user with a corresponding unlimited scope.

You an create a scope hierarchy for sharing resources with related tenants without the need for the administrator to have all of these related tenants in their own scope. So administrators can share VM templates and VApp specs with tenants in child scopes beneath their own scope, but administrators manage only the tenants within their own scope.

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To change an unlimited scope to a limited scope, first unselect the Select all checkbox, then select individual resources.  You cannot remove an enterprise from a scope that is using shared templates with that scope. You cannot modify the default Global scope. You cannot modify your own scope. After you create or modify a scope, you can assign it to a user or a resource.

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You cannot delete the default Global scope. You cannot delete your own scope. You  You cannot delete a scope if it is in use in certain circumstances, for example, if it is the default for an enterprise, or it is assigned to a shared template that is in use by an enterprise.  To delete a scope, select it in the list and click the delete button.

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