Working with tenants and their users

You can create tenants and create users that are associated with them.

A default tenant profile is provided. You can also create additional tenants and their associated users.

  1. Select Systems Management > Tenants.
  2. From the Tenant page, you can perform the following tasks:
    Option Description
    Create a tenant profile Click Create and complete the fields in the General tab of the Create Tenant page.
    Complete the following fields:
    Name
    Name of the tenant company, business entity, or organization.
    Domain Pattern
    Optional. The tenant's Internet domain name. It is used to ensure that tenant names are globally unique.
    Examples: 
    acme.com 
acme.net
    Tenant ID
    A unique identifier or alias for the tenant, generally based on the tenant name.
    Restriction: Do not include spaces in Tenant ID.
    Terminology: Tenant ID might also be called the Reference ID, depending on the context where it is used, such as the Reference_ID parameter in the SPE API.
    Click Save Tenant when you are finished. The Users tab is displayed and you can create users for this tenant.
    Sort to locate a tenant or a tenant user from the list

    If you have many tenants (or many users for a tenant) with similar names, you can sort or filter to locate a profile information more easily.

    Click the tenant profile and follow the procedure in Managing users.
    Filter to locate a tenant or a user from the list

    If you have many tenants (or many users for a tenant) with similar names, you can sort or filter to locate a profile information more easily.

    Click the tenant profile and follow the procedure in Managing users.
    Edit a tenant profile
    1. Click the tenant profile.
    2. From the General tab of the Tenant page, click Edit.
    3. Make your changes, verify, and click Save.
    Delete a tenant profile
    1. Click the tenant profile.
    2. From the General tab of the Create Tenant page, click Delete.
    3. Verify and click OK.

      The tenant profile is removed.
    Create a user for a tenant
    Important: You must create a user for a tenant, with the exception of the DEFAULT tenant, under the tenant name. A user cannot be moved between tenants.
    1. Select the tenant profile.
    2. Select the Users tab and click Create.

      The Create User page is displayed.

    3. Click and complete the fields, and click Save.

      See Creating users for fields and descriptions, including directions for assigning roles, passwords, and for activating the account.

    A user is created for the tenant.