19.2 Modifying a Business Group

You can edit a business group to change basic group information (name and costs visibility), user membership, and resource access (workload templates, service levels, and networks.

  1. In the Cloud Manager console, click Users, then click the Business Group tab.

  2. Select the business group you want to modify, then click Edit.

  3. Perform any of the following tasks to modify the group:

    Task

    Steps

    Change the name, discount percentage, and costs visibility

    1. In the Name field, specify the new name.

      The name should be different than any other business group name.

      Changing the business group name does not affect the relationship of other objects (such as users and workload templates) with the group. The new group name is included only with business services requested after the name change.

    2. In the Discount (%) field, select the discount percentage to apply to the group’s business services.

      The new discount is applied only to new or changed business services, and to existing business services that have no end date (per the Workload Updates schedule).

    3. In the Costs field, select Show to allow group members to see cost information for workloads. Select Hide to prevent group members from seeing cost information.

      If you hide costs for the group, you can override the setting on group members’ user accounts to enable selected group members (such as the group sponsor) to view costs. For information, see Section 18.2, Modifying a User’s Information.

    Change the Administrator auto-approval

    1. In the Auto-Approval field, select the Administrator check box to turn on automatic Administrator approval of business service requests from members of the business group.

      or

      Deselect the Administrator check box to turn off automatic Administrator approval. All business service requests from the group’s members must be manually approved by a Novell Cloud Manager administrator.

    Turn on automatic Sponsor approval

    1. If no sponsor is selected, automatic Sponsor approval is enabled. This is indicted by the dimmed, but selected, Sponsor check box.

      or

      If a sponsor is selected, you can click Clear next to the Sponsor field to remove the sponsor and turn on automatic Sponsor approval. If you don’t want to remove the sponsor, simply select the Auto-Approval Sponsor check box; this overrides the selected sponsor.

    Assign a sponsor

    1. Under Membership and Access, click the Users tab to display the Users list.

    2. If the user you want to assign as sponsor is not a member of the group, you must add the user to the group:

      1. Click Add to display the Add Users dialog box.

      2. Select the user.

      3. Click Add to add the selected user to the Users list.

    3. In the Users list, select the user you want to assign.

    4. Click Assign as Sponsor.

      The user name is displayed in the Sponsor field.

    Change the sponsor

    1. Click Clear next to the Sponsor field to remove the current sponsor.

    2. Click the Users tab to display the Users list.

    3. If the user you want to assign as sponsor is not a member of the group, you must add the user to the group:

      1. Click Add to display the Add Users dialog box.

      2. Select the user.

      3. Click Add to add the selected user to the Users list.

    4. In the Users list, select the user you want to assign.

    5. Click Assign as Sponsor.

      The user name is displayed in the Sponsor field.

    Add users

    1. Under Membership and Access, click the Users tab.

    2. Click Add to display the Add Users dialog box.

    3. Select the users.

      You can Shift-click and Ctrl-click to select multiple users.

    4. Click Add to add the selected users to the Users list.

    Remove users

    1. Under Membership and Access, click the Users tab.

    2. Select the users to remove.

      You can Shift-click and Ctrl-click to select multiple users.

    3. Click Remove.

    Add workload templates

    1. Under Membership and Access, click the Workload Templates tab.

    2. Click Add to display the Add Workload Templates dialog box.

    3. Select the workload templates.

      You can Shift-click and Ctrl-click to select multiple workload templates.

    4. Click Add to add the selected workload templates to the Workload Templates list.

    Remove workload templates

    If a workload template is associated with any business services created by members of the business group, the Remove action is disabled and you cannot remove the template.

    1. Under Membership and Access, click the Workload Templates tab.

    2. Select the workload templates to remove.

      You can Shift-click and Ctrl-click to select multiple workload templates.

    3. Click Remove.

    Add service levels

    1. Under Membership and Access, click the Service Levels tab.

    2. Click Add to display the Add Service Levels dialog box.

    3. Select the service levels.

      You can Shift-click and Ctrl-click to select multiple service levels.

    4. Click Add to add the selected service levels to the Service Levels list.

    Remove service levels

    1. Under Membership and Access, click the Service Levels tab.

    2. Select the service levels to remove.

      You can Shift-click and Ctrl-click to select multiple service levels.

    3. Click Remove.

    Add networks

    Each service level has one or more networks associated with it (through the service level’s assigned host group). For the service levels available to the group, you must decide which of the networks are visible to the group’s members. Each available service level must have at least one visible network.

    1. Make sure you’ve added at least one service level. Networks are determined by a service level’s host group; therefore, a service level’s networks are not available until after you add the service level to the business group.

    2. Under Membership and Access, click the Networks tab.

    3. Click Add to display the Add Networks dialog box.

    4. Select the networks.

      You can Shift-click and Ctrl-click to select multiple workload templates.

    5. Click Add to add the selected networks to the Networks list.

    6. Repeat these steps to make sure that at least one network associated with each available service level is added to the Networks list.

    Remove networks

    1. Under Membership and Access, click the Networks tab.

    2. Select the networks to remove.

      You can Shift-click and Ctrl-click to select multiple service levels.

    3. Click Remove.

  4. Click Save to save your modifications.