7.0 Adding Users

Any user who needs to request, manage, or approve business services must have a Novell Cloud Manager user account.

  1. Make sure that the user has an account in the LDAP authentication directory and is part of the LDAP user group created for Novell Cloud Manager.

    Novell Cloud Manager authenticates users via their LDAP directory user accounts. Any user you add to Novell Cloud Manager must be located in the Search DN and user group that was specified when defining the Novell Cloud Manager connection to the LDAP directory.

  2. In the Cloud Manager console, click Business Groups, then click the Users tab.

  3. Click Create to display the Create User dialog box.

  4. Provide the following details to define the user:

    User ID: Specify the user’s ID as defined in the LDAP authentication directory.

    Full Name: Specify the user’s full name as you want it to appear in Novell Cloud Manager.

    E-Mail Address: Specify the e-mail address at which the user can receive messages generated by Novell Cloud Manager activities.

    Business Group: This is a display-only field. After you add the user to a business group, the field displays the group name.

  5. Select the user’s role:

    User: Provides the ability to manage business services, including requesting services, sponsoring (approving or denying) requested services, and monitoring and managing deployed services.

    Administrator: Provides the ability to administer the Novell Cloud Manager system, including creation and management of all objects (users, business groups, host groups, workload templates, and service levels) used in business services.

  6. If you want the user to always be able to view business service costs regardless of the Costs setting for the user’s business group, select Always show costs regardless of business group costs setting.

    A business group’s Costs setting can be set to Show or Hide. The purpose of this setting is to enable you to ensure that business service costs are always visible to the user even if the business group Costs setting is set to Hide.

    For example, you might want to select this option for users who are sponsors of business groups. This ensures that sponsors can always see costs even if their business group is set to hide costs.

  7. Click Save.

  8. Repeat Step 3 through Step 7 for each user you want to add.