Implementing Multi-Tenancy › Tenant, Subtenant, and Tenant Group Administration › Define a Subtenant

Define a Subtenant

Subtenancy allows you to define and modify tenant hierarchies for organizational and data-sharing purposes. To place a tenant into a tenant hierarchy, you specify a parent tenant for the tenant.

To define a subtenant

1. Click Administration, Tenancy Management.

   The Multi-Tenancy Administration page appears.

2. On the left, click Tenant.

   The Tenants page appears.

3. Click Create Tenant.

   The Create New Tenant page appears.

4. Enter the subtenant information. The following fields require explanation:

   Parent Tenant

   Specifies another tenant above this tenant, making this tenant a subtenant in a tenant hierarchy.

   Note: The Parent Tenant drop-down only displays tenants that are allowed to have subtenants.

5. Click Save.

   The tenant is a subtenant of the parent tenant.

   Note: When a tenant becomes a subtenant, the tenant belongs to the subtenant group of the parent tenant, in addition to its other subtenants (if any), and so on. The parent tenant joins the supertenant group of its new subtenant, in addition to its other supertenants (if any), and so on. Each joins the related tenants group of the other.