Tuesday, 21 February 2012

SmartCloud Entry - Projects, Users and Accounts

Now we have everything the way we want, we can think about working with our projects, users and accounts.   From this we can manage our usage of the SmartCloud and the workloads we are going to be deploying, creating, managing and re-sizing.
First begin by creating the users that you want, all users are created equal until you put them in the relavant accounts and projects.

Users
Select Users -> Select New User ->  
  • Fill in the details as you require.   
 If you select 'admin privileges' then they have visibility of advanced features like networking and users creation.

Projects
Once you have your users you need to create a project for them to belong to -
Select Projects -> Select New Project -> 
  • Give a name and description. 
Once its created you can select the users to add to the project and there 'Role' in that project.
Accounts
Now we just need to create a account for this project and users so that we can control the billing further.
Select Accounts -> Select New Account -> 
  • Give a name and description
  • Select the Account owner.
  • Give a starting balance and low balance alert threshold.
  •  Then add further account member's, this is generated from the project members added earlier.  
Now this is set-up any new workloads to that project will get billed to the relvant selected accounts and the cost taken from their funding. If the users make changes, the project owner will be able to see, amaned and approve/deny these and the account get charges relating to those.  If notifications have been set and e-mail set-up then e-mails will be sent about events on the SmartCloud relevant to those users.
 

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