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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
Import a System Administrator
To add a user with system administrator rights, you can import an LDAP user as a system administrator.
System administrators have full rights to Cloud Director and all of its organizations.
Prerequisites
Verify that you have a valid connection to an LDAP server.
Procedure
1 Click the Administration tab and then click Users in the left pane.
2 Click the Import User button.
3 Type a full or partial name in the text box and click Search Users.
4 Select the users to import and click Add.
5 Click OK.
Enable or Disable a System Administrator
You can disable a system administrator user to prevent that user from logging in to Cloud Director. To delete
a system administrator, you must first disable their account.
Procedure
1 Click the Administration tab and click Users in the left pane.
2 Right-click the user name and select Enable or Disable.
Delete a System Administrator
You can remove a system administrator from the Cloud Director system by deleting their account.
Prerequisites
Disable the system administrator account.
Procedure
1 Click the Administration tab and click Users in the left pane.
2 Right-click the user name and select Delete User.
Edit System Administrator Profile and Contact Information
You can change the password and contact information for a system administrator account.
You can only edit account information for non-LDAP users.
Procedure
1 Click the Administration tab and click Users in the left pane.
2 Right-click the user name and select Properties.
3 Type the new information for the user account and click OK.
Cloud Director Administrator's Guide
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