First steps for Cloudability admin
Overview
IBM Cloudability optimizes cloud resources and translates bills and tags into insights to provide real-time clarity and accountability for consumption. As a first time admin user, here are the steps to configure your Cloudability that will set you up for success.
Configuration Steps
- Set up your user account(s)
Ask your Frontdoor administrator to create the relevant Cloudability role for you.
Learn about Manage Users
- Roles and Permissions
Roles give users permission to access specific views and functions within Cloudability. Setup roles and permissions
Learn about Roles and permissions in Cloudability
- Vendor Credentials
Connect to various data sources available. This allows admins to view, add, update, or delete individual accounts under data sources. Admins can search and filter the accounts, and also view the permission level on every individual account.
Learn about Vendor Credentials
- Tag Mappings
You can use Tag Mapping to assign tags to Cloudability dimensions for use in our reporting features.
Learn about Tag Mappings
- Account Groups
Accounts and Account Groups enable you to edit and group accounts that are accessed with Cloudability.
Learn about Account Groups
- Create and manage views
Know more about app-wide filters for your data in Cloudability and assign them to different users
Learn about Setup views
- Currency Exchange
Setup a common currency across all of Cloudability, regardless of the cloud service provider or currency used for billing.
Learn about Multi Currency Exchange Rate Service
- Business Mappings
Business Mappings are used to create Business Dimensions that categorize cloud spending according to your organization’s taxonomy.
Learn about Business Tags
Useful links for getting started
What you can do with Cloudability