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  • You can share resources with your own scope and child scopes of your scope

  • Each tenant can belong to more than one scope

  • Each scope can have one parent scope only

  • The platform will only consider the enterprises in the resource scopes, not the locations.

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Assign scopes to create a reseller hierarchy

You can use a reseller hierarchy for billing, pricing, and to manage and aggregate your cloud costs and usage. To create a reseller hierarchy, assign scopes to reseller, key node, and reseller customer tenants. 

  • Reseller: A reseller enterprise in the hierarchy can use partner or reseller credentials for public cloud (and create accounts and users for customers) and manage billing and pricing for their hierarchy. 

  • Key node: A key node is the main enterprise for an organization, for example, the such as a head office. A key node enterprise can obtain aggregate billing and usage data for their hierarchy.

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  1. Go to Users → Enterprises

  2. For the reseller and key node enterprises, create a scope

    1. Select an appropriate Parent scope, for example

      1. For a reseller, select the Global scope or no parent scope

      2. For a key node, select the reseller's Default scope as the parent scope

      3. For a sub-enterprise of a key node, e.g. such as a Department, select the key node's Default scope as the parent scope

  3. Create or edit an enterprise to make it a Reseller or Key node enterprise

  4. Set the appropriate scope as the Default scope for the enterprise. Abiquo will automatically add the enterprise to its Default scope

    • Note that if you change the default scope of an enterprise, Abiquo will not remove the enterprise from its previous scope

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