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Managing and creating new tenants

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Last updated 5 months ago

Here, you can create and manage both global and individual settings for your tenants. This provides you with a comprehensive overview of all activities and metrics.

Home

The home landing page displays a default report generated by DataCentral, which provides an overview of the tenants under your control as well as report analytics.

  • Tenant overview: Offers insights into each individual tenant, including available workspaces and reports, as well as tenant activity. Admins can easily navigate to any tenant directly from the report.

  • Report analysis: Provides insights into all user views and optionally user interactions within reports when the heatmap feature has been enabled.

To customize the landing page for your host, navigate to 'Administration -> Settings -> Other Settings'. Input the Report GUID and Workspace GUID that you intend to embed on your host's landing page. Make sure that your Service Principal has access to Workspace.


Tenants

Navigating to 'Tenants' you can manage all your tenants. Able to create, edit, and delete them.

To create tenant click 'Create new tenant' in the top right corner.

Input information:

  • Tenancy name: subdomain for your tenant, example mytenant.datacentral.ai

  • Tenant name: friendly name for tenant

  • Use Host Database: use default database or bring your own database

  • Admin User Name: User Pass administrator (mandatory)

  • Admin email: email for User Pass

  • Set random password: send random password via email or create your own

  • Edition: assign the tenant to a specific edition

  • Should change password on next login: when user logs in for the first time, he is prompted to change password

  • Send activation email: send activation email to email address defined

  • Active: mark user as Active


Editions

Navigating to 'Editions'.

Tenants can be assigned specific 'Editions,' which are predefined groupings of features and configurations. These groupings are named for ease of identification, making them particularly useful when managing tenants with varying settings requirements.

Here are some examples for creating editions:

  • Restrict available login methods for a tenant by only allowing Azure AD, Mobile ID, or User Pass.

  • Limit Azure configurations within a tenant (e.g., Service Principal, Graph Principal, Azure Tenant ID).

  • Restrict features available to a tenant.


Administration

Navigating to 'Administration'.

All administrative tasks for host tenant in one place. The management for user access on the host instance and provides global configuration settings for tenants. Additionally, all audit logs are readily accessible for your tenants.

The configurations under 'Settings' should be reviewed.

Under 'Other Settings' the host dashboard is configured.

Input the Report GUID and Workspace GUID from your Power BI environment that you intend to embed on your host's landing page.

Go to 'Azure Configurations' to configure host applications that your tenants can inherit, such as , , and .

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