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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
Send an Email Notification to Users
You can send an email notification to all the users in the entire installation, all system administrators, or all
organization administrators. You can send an email notification to let users know about upcoming system
maintenance, for example.
Prerequisites
Verify that you have a valid connection to an SMTP server.
Procedure
1 Click the Administration tab and click Users in the left pane.
2 Click the Notify Users button.
3 Select the recipients.
4 Type the email subject and message and click Send Email.
Delete a System Administrator Who Lost Access to the System
You can view a list of user accounts that lost access to the system when their LDAP group was deleted from
Cloud Director. You can decide whether or not to add the user back into the system and then delete the user
from the Lost & Found.
To add a user that was mistakenly removed from the system when their LDAP group was deleted, see “Add
a System Administrator,” on page 77 and “Import a System Administrator,” on page 78.
Procedure
1 Click the Administration tab and click Lost & Found in the left pane.
2 Right-click the user name and select Delete User.
Import an LDAP Group
To add a group of users with system administrator rights, you can import an LDAP group as system
administrators. 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 click Groups in the left pane.
2 Click the Import Group button.
3 Type a full or partial name in the text box and click Search Groups.
4 Select the groups to import and click Add.
5 Click OK.
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