7.1 Manually Creating Users

  1. On the main navigation bar, click Getting Started, then click Create Users and Groups (in the Set Up Your Cloud Environment list).

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    On the main navigation bar, click Organizations, then click the Users tab.

  2. On the Users tab, click Create to display the Create User dialog box.

  3. Provide the following details to define the user:

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

    E-Mail Address: Specify the user’s e-mail address as defined in their LDAP authentication account. If necessary, you can specify more than one address; use commas to separate addresses.

    The e-mail address enables the Cloud Manager system to send messages (tasks, notifications, and so forth) to the user as needed.

    Phone Number: This field is optional. Specify a contact number if desired.

  4. Select the user’s scope:

    Organization: An organization scope enables the user to perform roles within a specific organization. The roles are Approver, Build Administrator, Business Group Viewer, Business Service Owner, Organization Manager, and Sponsor.

    To give the user an organization scope, select Organization, then select the organization in which to place the user.

    System: A system scope enables the user to administer the Cloud Manager system. The roles are Approver, Build Administrator, Catalog Manager, Cloud Administrator, and Zone Administrator. In addition, a System user can be given any of the organization roles.

  5. (Organization user only) If you want the user to always be able to view business service costs regardless of the Costs setting for a business group, select Always show costs.

    An organization’s or business group’s Costs setting can be set to Show or Hide. The purpose of the Always show costs setting is to ensure that business service costs are always visible to the user even if the Costs setting is set to Hide.

    For example, you might want to select this option for users who are Sponsors. This ensures that the users can always see costs even if the organization or business group is set to hide costs.

  6. (System user only) Assign system-level roles to the user.

    The system-level roles are Approver, Build Administrator, Catalog Manager, Cloud Administrator, and Zone Administrator. These roles can be assigned only to System users.

    1. To assign the Approver, Build Administrator, Catalog Manager, or Cloud Administrator role, click the System tab, click Add, select the desired roles, then click OK.

    2. To assign the Zone Administrator role, click the Zone tab, click Add, select the desired zone, then click OK.

  7. Assign organization-level roles to the user.

    The organization-level roles are Approver, Build Administrator, Business Group Viewer, Business Service Owner, Organization Manager, and Sponsor. The Approver and Build Administrator roles can be assigned only to System users. The other roles can be assigned to both System users and Organization users.

    Several of the roles can be assigned at the organization, business group, or business service level. For example, you can make a user a Sponsor for a business group, in which case the user can approve requests for business services from that business group only. Or, you can make the user a Sponsor for the organization, in which case the user can approve requests for all business services in the organization.

    1. Click the Organization tab to add a role at the organization level, click the Business Group tab to add a role at the business group level, or click the Business Service tab to add a role at the business service level.

    2. Click the role that you want to assign

      For example, if you selected the Business Group tab and you want to enable the user to create business services for the business group, click Business Service Owner.

    3. Click Add, select the object (organization, business group, or business service) to which you want the role to apply, then click OK to add it to the list.

  8. Ignore the Membership tab at this time.

    The Membership tab lets you add users to groups. You must create the groups first. This task is discussed in Manually Creating User Groups and Importing User Groups from LDAP

  9. When you have finished assigning roles to the user, click Save.

For more information about users and roles, see Section III, User Management.