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nameCreate a user to access the cloud provider portal

When your enterprise has credentials for a public cloud provider, you can create a user account in a cloud provider. From here you can also click a link to access the cloud provider portal.

Abiquo displays the public cloud account identifiers on the Credentials tab.

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Privileges: Manage user creation in provider

To create a user:

  1. Go to Users → Edit enterprise

  2. Go to Credentials

  3. For a provider with credentials that supports user creation, click Create user.
    The platform will send the following to the cloud provider:

    • Details from your user account, including the username and email

    • An automatically generated password

      • The administrator can configure the generation of the password with the "abiquo.guest.password.length" and "abiquo.guest.password.exclude" properties.

    The platform will create an event with the enterprise ID, user ID, user email, date/time, and cloud provider.
    The user in the provider will have the following permissions: 

    • Azure: built-in Owner role.

    • AWS: in the same groups as the current user.

    • vCloud: by default the same as the current user, so usually an Organization Administrator

      • The administrator can configure the role to assign with the "abiquo.vcd.org.userRoleName" property

  4. The platform displays the user credentials only once and it does not store these credentials

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    To access the cloud provider portal, click user portal link or portal link

    • If you click portal link, on the Edit enterprise dialog, then you will need to enter your account ID and password in the cloud provider

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Add enterprise properties to store tenant

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nameIntroduction to enterprise properties

To store tenant details and metadata, use enterprise properties. The platform also uses enterprise properties to configure features and integrations.

Enterprise properties can have different types to enable you to use properties in hierarchical organisation models (such as reseller models). Administrators can use types to reserve some properties for internal use, and enable reseller or enterprise admins to view or manage other properties.

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nameControl access to enterprise properties

The platform controls access to enterprise properties with the following privileges and types.

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Privileges: Allow user to switch enterprise, Manage enterprise properties

To retrieve or update enterprise properties in the user interface, you will require the Allow user to switch enterprise privilege.

As well as the regular administrator privileges to Manage enterprises and Manage users of all enterprises.

There are three types of enterprise properties:

  • Read/write

  • Read only

  • Hidden

To update Read only or Hidden properties you will also require the Manage enterprise properties privilege.

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nameSet enterprise properties to store tenant metadata

To store tenant details and metadata, by setting enterprise properties: 

  • Go to Users → edit enterprise → Properties.

  • To add properties, enter a Key and Value for each property and click the Add button

    • These fields have a maximum length of 255 characters each   

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To edit a property's Value, click the pencil edit button. And to delete a property, click the trash bin delete button.

Tip

To set default enterprises properties and values for your users, see Predefine enterprise properties for the UI.

For details of how to manage enterprise properties via the API, see Update enterprise properties via API.

To add tenant metadata to VMs, see Inject enterprise properties as VM variables.

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Inject enterprise properties as VM variables

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