Manage Users for Tenant Admin
Create a user
Cloud administrators, before you begin:
- To optionally limit the user to a list of resources, create a scope for the user
- Choose a role with the appropriate privileges or create a role
To create a user:
- 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
- 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:
- Go to Users → Select user
- Click the pencil edit button. The user dialog will open
- 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:
- Open the Users view and select the user
- Click the Edit button at the top-right of the Users page. The user form will open.
- Enter the new password
- Recommended: go to Advanced and select the checkbox to Reset password on next login
- If the user account is locked and you wish to unlock it, go to Advanced, and select the Activated option
- 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:
- Go to Users view → Users
- 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:
- Select the user account and click the Delete button
- 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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