Abiquo enables administrators to control the visibility of certain UI elements. This is done through UI configuration and through privileges.
UI configuration
Administrators can control several aspects of Abiquo through For UI configuration. For example, they can hide links in footer for About and Support using , use properties in client-config-custom.json. And they can create display You can configure UI visibility of elements, such as:
Display an extra icon in the top menu bar
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Hide display of custom metrics for virtual appliances
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Configuration view
Administrators can configure the display of Abiquo Reports and Documentation icons in Configuration View. Visibility of these elements is determined by the appropriate privileges as described in the following section.
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Here are some examples of UI element visibility that you can control in Configuration view :
Abiquo Reports icon configuration. To control visibility of this icon for users, assign
Allow access to reports privilegeDocumentation icon configuration
Display Users view icon
Display Hard disks tab in VM configuration. To control visibility for users, assign the
Manage virtual machine hard disks privilege
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Privileges and views
The Abiquo system of roles and privileges ensures that users the platform only see the views that they displays what the user can access. This section briefly explains how privileges work in the UI. For full details of privileges, see Manage Roles and Privileges
To enter each of the main Abiquo views, the user requires an access a privilege. For example, the "Access Infrastructure view" privilege enables the user to enter the UI section for datacenter compute, networks and storage. This privilege is only available to the Cloud administrator role by default.The following screenshots of the Abiquo views that can the default Abiquo roles show how access varies between these roles.See Configure the main menu button bar .
For full details of privileges, see Manage roles and Privileges
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Cloud Admin access
The Cloud Admin has a full set of icons on the main menu bar. The Cloud Admin can create enterprises and users, and manage roles and scopes.
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Enterprise Admin access
By default, the Enterprise Admin can manage resources for their tenant or tenants. As an example, if you decide to allow the tenant admin to manage users, then you can give them access to the Users view, but they will have limited access. For example, you can allow them to administer users of their own tenant only, without privileges to manage roles and scopes. To enable these users to administer some features for their tenant, such as managing public cloud credentials, or purchasing enterprise products, you can assign specific privileges for access through the User icon menu.
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User access
By default, the Cloud User role has only the most basic icons on of the top menu. This user cannot access the other views, including the Users view. You can add more privileges, such as to let a cloud user to view limits and enterprise resources on the main dashboard.
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Enterprise viewer role
At a user level, the default Enterprise viewer role is for a "read only" user of Abiquo and the privileges assigned to this role enable the user to view virtual resources at a basic cloud user level.
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Privileges to control access to UI features
The following privileges are some examples of how to control the display and use of specific features:
- Apps library
Catalogue
Download VM templates from remote repository (for enterprise administrators)
Username or user icon menu
Manage provider credentials for public cloud providers (for enterprise administrators)
Manage user applications for API client applications (for users)
- Virtual machine
VM default credentials privileges button
Retrieve default
VMtemplate credentials (for users)
VM initial password button
Retrieve virtual machine initial password (of all accessible VMs)
Restricted virtual appliances
View restricted VApps and VMs
For full details of privileges, see Privileges