Configuring tenants
A tenant is an organizational unit and at least one tenant must exist. A tenant can be created with the button in the Tenants page. The first (admin level) user of the tenant is created at the same time. If any vCloud Director Import sources are defined, the tenant's credentials can be set. A tenant record, related tenant Integration Settings, and the user record are added to the database when you click .
A tenant's details can be edited through . A tenant's Customer Code, which is set when you create a tenant, can be viewed in the Details tab. You can also set the vCloud Director credentials and the vCloud Director imports here. All users that are associated to the tenant are visible in the Users tab. Tenant level Integration settings are available in the Integration tab. The tenant administrator can subsequently set the updated vCloud Director password when required, using the change facility on their home page vCloud Director Infrastructure tree view node. Tenant level theming can be carried out in the Theme tab.
More information about how to define tenant level theming is available. See Themes.
You can add additional users to the tenant in a number of ways:
Manually through the portal from the Left menu > Tenants > Users tab
Active Directory (). The Cost Center Code must be the same as that found in the Tenant record.
Base Data Import through CSV (). When you click on a new form is displayed. The form has the option to select a CSV file to import users. You also have the option to export the current users to a CSV or unicode text files. The Cost Center Code must be the same as that found in the Tenant record.
Note:
Once a user is associated to a tenant this association cannot change.
A user record can be deactivated to prevent access to the system. If using Forms Authentication, password rules can be defined using a number of criteria. These rules can be configured in .
A tenant user with an Administrator access profile can manage their own user records.