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Table Of Contents
- Cloud Director Administrator's Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- Getting Started with Cloud Director
- Adding Resources to Cloud Director
- Adding vSphere Resources
- Adding Cloud Resources
- Provider Virtual Datacenters
- Create a Provider Virtual Datacenter
- External Networks
- Add an External Network
- Network Pools
- Add a Network Pool That Is Backed by VLAN IDs
- Add a Network Pool That Is Backed by Cloud Isolated Networks
- Add a Network Pool That Is Backed by vSphere Port Groups
- Set the MTU for a Network Pool Backed by Cloud Isolated Networks
- Creating and Provisioning Organizations
- Creating a Published Catalog
- Managing Cloud Resources
- Managing Provider vDCs
- Enable or Disable a Provider vDC
- Delete a Provider vDC
- Modify a Provider vDC Name and Description
- Enable or Disable a Provider vDC Host
- Prepare or Unprepare a Provider vDC Host
- Upgrade an ESX/ESXi Host Agent for a Provider vDC Host
- Repair a Provider vDC ESX/ESXi Host
- Enable or Disable a Provider vDC Datastore
- Add Storage Capacity to a Provider vDC
- Configure Low Disk Space Warnings for a Provider vDC Datastore
- Send an Email Notification to Provider vDC Users
- Managing Organization vDCs
- Managing External Networks
- Managing Organization Networks
- Creating Organization Networks
- Configuring Network Services
- Reset an Organization Network
- Delete an Organization Network
- View IP Usage for an Organization Network
- Add IP Addresses to an Organization Network IP Pool
- Modify an Organization Network Name and Description
- Modify an Organization Network DNS Settings
- Managing Network Pools
- Managing Cloud Cells
- Managing Provider vDCs
- Managing vSphere Resources
- Managing Organizations
- Enable or Disable an Organization
- Delete an Organization
- Modify an Organization Name
- Modify an Organization Full Name and Description
- Modify Organization LDAP Options
- Modify Organization Catalog Publishing Policy
- Modify Organization Email Preferences
- Modify Organization Lease, Quota, and Limit Settings
- Add a Catalog to an Organization
- Managing Organization Resources
- Managing Organization Users and Groups
- Managing Organization vApps
- Managing System Administrators and Roles
- Add a System Administrator
- Import a System Administrator
- Enable or Disable a System Administrator
- Delete a System Administrator
- Edit System Administrator Profile and Contact Information
- Send an Email Notification to Users
- Delete a System Administrator Who Lost Access to the System
- Import an LDAP Group
- Delete an LDAP Group
- Change an LDAP Group Description
- Roles and Rights
- Create a Role
- Copy a Role
- Edit a Role
- Delete a Role
- Managing System Settings
- Monitoring Cloud Director
- Roles and Rights
- Index
4 Select the new source for organization users.
Option Description
Do not use LDAP
Organization administrator creates a local user account for each user in the
organization. You cannot create groups if you select this option.
VCD system LDAP service
Use the LDAP service for the Cloud Director system as the source for
organization users and groups.
Custom LDAP service
Connect the organization to its own private LDAP service.
5 Provide any additional information required by your selection.
Option Action
Do not use LDAP
Click OK.
VCD system LDAP service
(Optional) Type the distinguished name of the organizational unit (OU) to
use to limit the users that you can import into the organization and click
OK. If you do not enter anything, you can import all users in the system
LDAP service into the organization.
NOTE Specifying an OU does not limit the LDAP groups you can import.
You can import any LDAP group from the system LDAP root. However, only
users who are in both the OU and the imported group can log in to the
organization.
Custom LDAP service
Click the Custom LDAP tab, type the custom LDAP settings for the
organization, and click OK.
System administrators and organization administrators who are currently logged in cannot import users and
groups using the modified LDAP options until the cache for their current session expires or they log out and
log in again.
Modify Organization Catalog Publishing Policy
A catalog provides organization users with a library of vApp templates and media that they can use to create
vApps. Generally, catalogs should only be available to users in a single organization, but a system
administrator can allow the organization administrator to publish a catalog to all organizations in the Cloud
Director installation.
Procedure
1 Click the Manage & Monitor tab and click Organizations in the left pane.
2 Right-click the organization name and select Properties.
3 Click the Catalog Publishing tab.
4 Select a catalog publishing option and click OK.
Option Description
Cannot publish catalogs
Organization administrator cannot publish any catalogs for users outside of
the organization.
Allow publishing catalogs to all
organizations
Organization administrator can publish a catalog for users in all
organizations.
For users who are currently logged in to the organization, changes to the catalog publishing policy do not take
effect until the cache for their current session expires or they log out and log in again.
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