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Introduction to scopes

A scope is an access list that contains an access , which is a list of resources (enterprises and/or datacenters) to allow or restrict access.

You can use scopes to:

1. Create restricted sets of resources for administrators and users

2. Share VM templates and configuration blueprints (VApp specs) with a group of tenants, which can be in a tenant hierarchy

3. Restrict an enterprise to a set of script templates

4. Create a tenant hierarchy for pricing, billing, and cost and usage aggregation, which is useful for resellers and large organizations

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1. Go to Users → Scopes

2. Click the + add button

3. For General info:

   1. For the Name, we recommend that you identify the tenant, resource, or user group that the scope will apply to

   2. To add the scope to a hierarchy, select a Parent scope.

   3. To specify attributes of an external system to define the user groups that this scope should apply to, enter External scopes. An example of an external scope could be an LDAP group for the user. This is for external authentication modes, such as openid and ldap. A user's external scopes must map to a single Abiquo scope (local or global). See LDAP and Active Directory Integration and Abiquo OpenID Connect Integration.

   4. To create a default list of network addresses from which users with this scope can access the platform, enter Allowed CIDRs. You can also set allowed CIDRs for a user role. A user will inherit the role and scope CIDRs. Any allowed CIDRs set directly for the user will have priority over these inherited allowed CIDRs.

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4. For Entities:

   1. Select Enterprises to use in the scope.
      To automatically include all existing and future enterprises, select the option to Use all enterprises. We do not recommend this option if the parent scope is limited

      1. If you assign this scope to a user, then the user can manage resources in the list of enterprises selected

      2. If you assign this scope to a VM template or a VApp spec, then users can access the resources if they belong to the enterprises that are in the scope list (or if they belong to the owner enterprise)

      3. If you assign this scope to one or more script template/s, then users in the enterprises in this scope can only access the set of script templates with the scope selected

      4. An enterprise default scope is the default scope for users you create in the enterprise

   2. Select Datacenters (and public cloud regions) to include in the scope.
      To automatically include all existing and future datacenters, select the option to Use all datacenters. We do not recommend this option if the parent scope is limited

      1. If you assign this scope to a user, then the user can manage resources in the list of datacenters selected.

      2. Scopes for VM templates and VApp specs do not use the datacenters list

      3. Scopes for script templates do not use the datacenters list

      4. An enterprise default scope is the default scope for users you create in the enterprise

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After you create a scope, you can assign it to a user, an enterprise, or a resource.

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1. Create a scope for the tenant

   1. On the General info tab, select a parent scope, for example, Global scope or a reseller scope

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   2. In the Datacenters list, select the appropriate locations (datacenters and public cloud regions) where the users will work.

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2. Create the tenant enterprise and on the General tab for the Default scope select the tenant's scope.
   Abiquo will automatically add the enterprise to its Default scope

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When an administrator creates users in the tenant, the platform will automatically suggest the tenant's enterprise scope for these users.

If you also assign this scope to an enterprise administrator in this tenant, they will be able to manage the tenant's users only.

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Create a scope for an administrator

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1. Create a scope for the administrator

   1. On the General info tab, optionally select a parent scope, for example, the Global scope or a reseller scope

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   2. Go to the Entities tab. In the Enterprises list, select the enterprises to administer

   3. In the Datacenters list, select the appropriate locations (datacenters and public cloud regions) to administer

 For example, for a Managed Service Provider in Spain, with datacenters in Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, and Seville. The scopes could be defined as follows:

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• If enterprises are in a child scope, the administrator can share catalogue resources with them, even if they cannot administer their users.

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Create a scope to share resources such as VM templates

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The resources in the catalogue Catalogue include images (VM templates) and , blueprints (VApp specs), and VM bootstrap scripts (script templates).

You may wish to can create and maintain a group of core resources, and share these them with many tenants.

To share a VM template or a VApp specresource:

1. Create In your administrator roles with the appropriate privileges to manage the resources.

   To share resources, an administrator must also have

   , add the privilege to Allow user to switch enterprises.

2. Define and create scopes as required.

   The resource scopes should contain the enterprises

   In your administrator user scopes or their scope hierarchies, add the tenants that will access the

   resourceThe platform lets the user work with a resource if the user is in the owner enterprise or a tenant enterprise in the resource's scopes. The platform does not check the user's scope

   resources, and the locations of the resources

3. You can use an scope, such as a reseller scope with a hierarchy, or you can create a new scope to share resources with a group of tenants. In this scope, in the Enterprises list, select enterprises to give them access to the resource.

   • To share resources with ALL current and future tenants, use the default Global scope or create an unlimited enterprise scope

   • To allow an administrator to share resources and manage the tenants, add the tenants to the administrator's scope

   • To allow an administrator to share resources without access to the tenants, add the tenants to one or more scopes, and make the administrator's scope the parent scope.

4. Log in to the enterprise that owns the resources.

   • To modify VM templates or script templates, the administrator must be in the enterprise that created the templateresource

   • To create a new version of a VApp spec, the user must work with a VApp created from the spec in the enterprise that created the spec.

5. Edit a the resource and go to Scopes

6. Select the scopes that contain tenants who will use the resources.

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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. 

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• Basic scope hierarchy: The administrator for Spain could also have a scope hierarchy beneath the Spain scope that includes the scopes for Eastern Spain and Central Spain and Southern Spain and then their customers at a lower level. The administrator for Spain can only manage the users of the Spanish national organization but they can share templates and VApp specs with tenants in the scopes at all levels of the hierarchy.

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Search and filter scopes

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Manage scopes with the API

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