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Tenant Administrator

A tenant administrator has a restricted (that is, scoped) role that is limited to the users and resources belonging to a single tenant.

The super administrator defines the tenant, specifies the membership of the tenant, specifies the resources that the tenant can access, and specifies the users who administer the tenant.

The duties of the tenant administrator are:

• View and modify physical and virtual resource pools created by the super administrator and assigned to the tenant. The tenant administrator can perform the following actions on resource pools:
  • Set a limit on how many systems users can reserve
  • Set a limit on how long users can reserve machines
  • Specify VM naming rules
  • Specify whether reservations require manual approval
  • Specify whether users are allowed to set the Windows administrator password
  • Specify whether users are allowed to issue VM power operations
  • Specify whether users are allowed to take snapshots of VMware virtual machines
  • Specify whether VMs are deleted when reclaimed
  • Specify the level of memory overcommitment

  Note: When multiple tenants share a resource pool, tenant administrators cannot modify the pool settings. They can view the pool and its settings and assign the pool to tenant organizational units.

  If a resource pool is assigned exclusively to a tenant, the tenant administrator cannot modify some pool settings. Tenant administrators cannot modify CA ITCM (ITCM Domain Manager and Scalability Server, vCenter (Folder placement), and Amazon Cloud (Keypair Name and Network Selection). However, tenant administrators can view these settings.

  Tenant administrators cannot create or delete resource pools.

• Create and manage organizational units, which define the access of tenant members to Reservation Manager resources. Types of resources include reservation templates, system images, resource pools, and software groups. Resources that the tenant can access are available for assignment to tenant organizational units.

  Tenant administrators can add tenant members and network definitions to organizational units.

• Create and manage reservation templates. The tenant administrator can create, modify, and delete templates that tenant members use when making reservations. Organizational units control member access to templates.
• Perform operations on reservations that are based on resources in designated services. The tenant administrator can perform the following actions on reservations:
  • Approve or reject reservation requests
  • Extend reservations
  • Cancel reservations to reclaim resources
  • Check reservation status
  • Restart or skip reservation tasks
• View system inventory and check system availability for systems that belong to resource pools derived from designated services.

When a tenant administrator clicks Administer your Reservation Manager on the home page, the following links appear. These links let the tenant administrator perform all the previously described tasks.

• View all reservations
• Manage your system inventory
• Manage your resource pools
• Manage your reservation templates
• Manage your organizational units