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Abiquo 5.4 introduces some changes to scopes to simplify tenant hierarchies in the multicloud platform. For a tenant hierarchy you can manage reseller and customer accounts in public cloud providers and manage cost and usage for all these accounts. |
Abiquo 5.4 introduces some changs changes to scopes to simplify tenant hierarchies in the multicloud platform. For a tenant hierarchy you can manage reseller and customer accounts in public cloud providers and manage cost and usage for all these accounts.
To define a tenant hierarchy, Abiquo will use the default scopes of the enterprises only.First
Usually you will create a default scope for each tenant. In Abiquo 5.4, when you assign a default scope to an enterprise, Abiquo will automatically add this enterprise to the scope.
Note that if you change the default scope of an
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enterprise, Abiquo will not remove the enterprise from
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its previous scope.
Secondly, to define a tenant hierarchy, Abiquo will use the default scopes of the enterprises only.
Usually you will create a default scope for each tenant.
You can have multiple resellers but each one must have its own enterprise default scope.
Scope hierarchy examples.
Given the following hierarchy of tenants with scopes of the same name, where the highest scope is Reseller_0.
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Reseller_0 → Reseller_1 → Keynode_2 → Tenant_1 |
The hierarchy for tenant one is:
- Reseller_1
- Keynode_2
The hierarhcy for Keynode_2 is:
- Reseller_1
The hierarchy for Reseller_1 is: 
Abiquo has also added more API methods to obtain the scope hierarchy for an enterprise.
Diagram: example scope hierarchy
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