Creating accounts

Who needs to complete this task?
To create accounts, you must have one of the following permissions:
  • Administer platform
  • Manage accounts
When do you need to complete this task?
Complete this task if you want to create accounts to manage IBM® Software Hub tenants.

Before you begin

Before you create an account, an instance administrator must Enabling multitenancy for an instance of IBM Software Hub. If this task is not complete, the Accounts option is not available in the navigation menu and the Account management tile is disabled on the Configurations and settings page.

About this task

When you set up an account, you can assign a user as an account owner. The account owner can give other users the Account adminstrator role on the account.

You can optionally set quotas on the account. A quota is a way for you to specify the maximum amount of vCPU, memory, and GPU you want the account to use.

Procedure

  1. Log in to the web client.
  2. Switch to the IBM Software Hub experience, if needed.
  3. From the navigation menu, select Accounts.
  4. Click New Account.
  5. Enter a name and a description for the account. Then, click Next.
  6. Select the account owner. Then, click Next.
  7. Select the services that are available in the account.
    (Only services that support multitenancy with accounts are displayed.)
  8. Optional: Set the resource quotas for the account to limit the vCPU, memory, and GPU that the account can use.
  9. Click Next.
  10. Review the summary and click Create.