Vendor Credentials

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Overview:

Vendor Credentials page in Cloudability helps its Admin users view and connect to various data sources available. This page also allows admins to view, 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.

Prerequisites

Admin access to the Cloudability Vendor Credentials

Getting Started

  1. To add a new data source, click Add Datasource . This would show all the data sources available.
    Note: The Vendor Credentials page requires admin permissions to access.
    VC add datasource screenshot
  2. Select a data source you would want to credential.
    Note: Some of the data sources would require a pre-setup. For instructions for your specific data source, find it in the list in the Getting data into Cloudability section of the documentation.
  3. Once credentialed, admins would be able to view a tab for individual datasource, for example AWS.

    VC view added datasource screenshot
  4. Within the datasource tab, admins can search and filter on individual columns.

    VC search datasource screenshot
  5. Click “…” to perform the following actions.
    • View Details – Displays the account's details along with its permissions

    VC datasource list screenshot

    • Edit Account – Enables to edit the existing credentials

    • Re-verify – Manually re-verifies the account's credentials and its permissions

    • Archive – Archives the account

    • Delete – Deletes the account

  6. Accounts will be collapsed by default. However, there are icons which:
    • Expand all accounts

      VC expand all accounts screenshot
    • Collapse all accounts

      VC collapse all accounts datasource screenshot
  7. The status of the accounts is displayed by various icons. The icons are keep same for showing both Cloudability and Turbonomic status
    Cloudability Status Turbonomic Status Icon

    Verified Credential

    		Normal

    verified credential icon , verified credential 2 Icon

    Invalid Credential

    		Critical

    invalid credential icon 2 , invalid credential icon

    Credential Needed

    		Unknown

    not crdentialed Icon

    Incomplete Credentials

    		Major

    incomplete icon

    Archived Credentials

    archived icon

Re - Credentialing

Cloudability frequently updates the services it supports across Cloud Service Providers for either Optimization use cases like bringing more services under Rightsizing or commitments or enhances an existing datasource connection. In order to get the full benefit of Cloudability periodic re credentialing is recommended.

  • New Customers - When New customers action on adding data sources , Cloudability provides the latest set of templates which involves the exhaustive permissions required to enable all the features based on Customer's Cloudability SKU.
  • Existing Customers - Existing customers are required to re-credential periodically to continue getting the insights and recommendations for the enhancements Cloudability brings in. In case of upgrading the Cloudability SKU e.g. Upgrading to Cloudability Premium , Customers must re-credential to get the full value of products supported in CLDY Premium.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Is the vendor credentials functionality same across all vendors?
    • While the individual credentialing steps are different across different vendors, the process of filtering, expand, re verify etc is same across the various data sources supported by Cloudability.
  • What do the various status indicate for Cloudability?
    • Verified Credentials - indicates that Cloudability has the minimum permissions on the account and Cloudability role or service principals were correctly installed.
    • Invalid Credentials - indicates sally some error in the account and Cloudability was unable to verify the account.
    • Credential Needed - indicates that this is new account and credentialing process is not started.
    • Incomplete Credentials - indicates that the accounts were saved but not verified. On verification these accounts would either move to the below based on the permission provided.
      • Verified Credentials
      • Invalid Credentials
    • Archived Credentials - indicates the account was archived
      • If this is a parent account, archiving an account would stop the cost data ingestion.
      • If this is a child account cost data ingestion would continue and archiving would only stop the data required for advance credentialing e.g. utilization/commitments data etc.
  • What do the various status indicate for Turbonomic?
    • Mentioned above in the table.

  • The Cloudability account status and Turbonomic target status do not match in the Vendor Credentials screens? What could be the reasons?

    • Existing Cloudability customers upgrading to Cloudability Premium need to re credential their accounts in order to get the latest Turbonomic permissions.

      Mismatch in Account status can be because of a few reasons:
      • Re-Credentialing was not done based on the latest templates/permissions.
      • If Re-Credentialing was done then possibly it was done using a previous template version and since then a few new permissions have been added for Cloudability Premium.
      • If Re-Credentialing does not help, please reach out to IBM support teams.
  • Where can I find the individual data sources documentation?
    • Please refer to the Getting data into Cloudability section of the documentation.