Manage Users for Tenant Admin


Create a user

Cloud administrators, before you begin:

  1. To optionally limit the user to a list of resources, create a scope for the user
  2. Choose a role with the appropriate privileges or create a role

To create a user:

  1. Optionally, select another enterprise if you manage users in multiple enterprises, and you want to create the user in an enterprise that you are not logged into
  2. Click the + Add button and complete the dialog

Enter general user details

For more details see GUI Create user General information




Restrict a user to a set of virtual datacenters

For more details see GUI Create user Limit access to VDCs




Enter advanced user details

For more details see GUI Create user Advanced


Suspend or enable a user account

If you need to stop a user from working with or logging in to the platform on a temporary basis, you can suspend the user account.

To suspend a user account:

  1. Go to Users → Select user
  2. Click the pencil edit button. The user dialog will open
  3. Go to Advanced, and unselect the Activated checkbox

The platform will suspend the account. When a user account is suspended, the platform will log the user out immediately. Be careful not to disable your own account! Fortunately, the main cloud administrator account cannot be disabled.

To enable the user account again, select the Activated checkbox.

If the user makes too many failed login attempts, the platform will automatically suspend their account for the account lock duration or until it is enabled by an administrator.



Manually reset a user password

If a user cannot automatically reset their password or if the user account is locked for too many password attempts, you can manually reset the password and unlock the account. 

To manually reset a user password:

  1. Open the Users view and select the user
  2. Click the Edit button at the top-right of the Users page. The user form will open.
  3. Enter the new password
  4. Recommended: go to Advanced and select the checkbox to Reset password on next login
  5. If the user account is locked and you wish to unlock it, go to Advanced, and select the Activated option
  6. Click Save. If the user is currently logged in, they will be automatically logged out when you save a new password,

The user password will be reset. Notify the user of their new password.



Manage users with the API


API Documentation

For the Abiquo API documentation of this feature, see Abiquo API Resources and the page for this resource UsersResource.



Display users

To display the users in card view, select the card view tab from the view selectors in the top right-hand corner.

To display groups of users, click on the pages to display the following:

  • All users on the All page

  • Active users on the Activated page

  • Suspended users on the Suspended page



Filter users

To filter users and display only those with a certain text in the user details:

  1. Go to Users view → Users
  2. In the filter box on the right-hand side, enter a text string to search for which can include wildcards.
    For more details about how the platform's search works, see Search for VMs and filter the search



User status

The user status is displayed either by a colored dot in the Activated column or in the colored tag on the user card:

  • Green for active accounts
  • Red for suspended accounts
    • Red with padlock symbol for accounts suspended automatically after too many failed login attempts 



Delete a user

To delete a user:

  1. Select the user account and click the Delete button
  2. Confirm the delete

Abiquo will delete the user account but the user's VMs and other resources will remain on the cloud platform and users in the same enterprise with the appropriate permissions can work with them.




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