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Create a Tenant

You can use the product to create a tenant.

To create a tenant

1. Select Security and Role Management, Tenants on the Administration tab.

   The Tenant List page appears.

   Note: The Security and Role Management, Tenants option is available only when multi-tenancy is installed (either on or setup).

2. Click Create New.

   The Create New Tenant page appears.

3. Complete the editable fields if necessary:

   Name

   Displays the tenant name.

   Service Provider

   Identifies whether a tenant is the service provider. The first created tenant is always the Service Provider.

   Tenant Number

   (Information Only) Displays the tenant number. This field is not used by CA SDM.

   Record Status

   Sets the tenant to Active or Inactive.

   Parent Tenant

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

   Subtenants Allowed

   Allows this tenant to have subtenants. The tenant cannot modify the setting.

   Tenant Depth

   (Information Only) Indicates the tenant depth of this tenant.

   Supertenant Group

   (Information Only) Identifies the system-maintained tenant group that contains this tenant and all tenants above it in the tenant hierarchy.

   Subtenant Group

   (Information Only) Identifies the system-maintained tenant group that contains this tenant and all tenants below it in the tenant hierarchy.

   Foreign Key Group

   (Information Only) Identifies the system-maintained tenant group that contains tenants that can be referenced from an SREL in data that belongs to this tenant. The foreign key group is the same as the supertenant group.

   Related Tenant Group

   (Information Only) Identifies the system-maintained tenant group consisting of both the supertenant and subtenant groups for this tenant.

   Terms of Usage

   Specifies the Terms of Usage statement for the tenant.

   Logo

   Specifies the URL for the tenant logo file, which can be any web image type.

   Location

   Displays the Location lookup page.

   Contact

   Displays the Contact lookup page.

   Note: If no contact is associated with the respective tenant, the Email Address and Pager Email Address fields are inactive.

4. Click Save.

   The tenant is created.

5. Close the window.
6. Right-click the Tenant list and click Refresh.

   The Tenant List is updated and displays the created tenant.

7. (Optional) To assign this tenant to user-defined tenant groups, click Update Tenant Groups on the Tenant Groups tab.