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Super Administrator

A super administrator is a member of the user group AIPAdmins, and therefore can perform all administrative tasks in both CA Server Automation and Reservation Manager.

The super administrator is responsible for creating the objects and configuration that define tenant users, resources, and administrators. The super administrator performs the following actions to define a new tenant:

• Create one or more services for the tenant in CA Server Automation. Add tenant physical computer systems to these services.
• Create one or more physical resource pools for the tenant in Reservation Manager by importing the tenant services from CA Server Automation.
• Create one or more virtual resource pools for the tenant in Reservation Manager.

  Note: When you create a pool of this type, Reservation Manager automatically creates a service with the same name in CA Server Automation. Later, when an end user creates a virtual machine in a virtual resource pool, Reservation Manager automatically adds the VM to the corresponding service.

• Create a tenant in Reservation Manager, specify access to resource pools, and specify administrators and users.
• Create system images, software groups, and reservation templates for the tenant in Reservation Manager. These objects should reference resources owned by the tenant or available to the members of the tenant. Members of the tenant use these resources when making reservation requests.

  Note: Tenant administrators can also create reservation templates. Templates that the super administrator creates can be assigned to one or more tenants. Templates that tenant administrators create are used only by members of that tenant.

• Grant access to these objects to the tenant in Reservation Manager so the tenant administrator can give tenant users access to these objects.
• Specify which network definitions are available to each tenant.
• View or hide tenants, or filter the view by tenant name.

The maintenance of a tenant consists of adapting the previous configuration to changes to tenant users and resources:

• Maintain tenant administrators.
• Modify services and create new services for the tenant in CA Server Automation as needed.
• Modify or create system images, software groups, and reservation templates for the tenant in Reservation Manager as needed.
• Modify tenant access to resources as needed.
• Modify membership in the tenant as needed.

Note: The super administrator cannot create organizational units for tenants. The tenant administrator is solely responsible for creating organizational units for the members of the tenant. However, when the super administrator creates a tenant, Reservation Manager automatically creates a single organizational unit for the tenant. This new default organizational unit is given the same name as the tenant. All resources that are assigned to the tenant during the tenant creation interview are assigned to the default organizational unit.