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Administrator's manual

Introduction​

The Administrator's manual describes how to setup OSIE for your business, by configuring the billing system, adding your first OpenStack region, and much more.

Table of contents​

  1. Price plans - create and manage price plans to define prices.
  2. Resource types - learn how to create and manage resource types.
  3. Add a new OpenStack cloud - add a new OpenStack cloud provider.
  4. Services and regions - choose which OpenStack services customers can use in each region.
    • Cloud features - choose volume types, the remote console, network selection, port security and other options of a cloud.
    • Instance metrics - show customers server charts from Gnocchi or Prometheus.
    • Cloud diagnostics - check that OSIE has the access it needs on a cloud.
  5. Security group templates - give every customer project the same baseline firewall rules.
  6. Organization billing - turn billing on or off per organization, and choose the billing profile it runs on.
  7. Realms - segregate customers into isolated sign-in boundaries.
  8. Login options & identity providers - configure per-realm login, sign-up, and federated identity providers.
  9. OpenStack domain access - map realms to OpenStack domains and choose how users authenticate to OpenStack.
  10. Linking realms - federate realms together and front them with a broker realm.
  11. Project access from identity claims - put users on projects automatically, from the groups your identity provider already issues.
  12. Account Activation - activate customer accounts.
  13. Configure VHI S3 - configure VHI S3 as the object storage backend.
  14. Automated suspension - warn customers who fall behind on payment, suspend them if they do not pay, and resume them when they do.
  15. Set up Promotional Credits - set up promotional credits for your customers.
  16. Configure Invoicing - configure the invoicing settings.
  17. Currencies - manage currencies.
  18. Create Tax Rules - create tax rules for different countries and customer types.
  19. Customize Keycloak Theme - customize the Keycloak theme.
  20. Create Custom Menu Item - create a custom menu item.
  21. Send email over SMTP - send OSIE's email through your own mail server, and test it.