Provisioning Containers

Requesting Containers is a self-service oriented feature that allows a maximum control over the process of granting internal clients access to Containers by the Hardware Node administrator while taking him/her a minimum effort to participate in the process. Container requesting enables enterprise Node administrators deliver Containers to internal clients and plan the Hardware Node resources expenditures, provides centralized management, administration and security of Containers usage across the enterprise network and ensures end-to-end monitoring, analysis and reporting of the whole process of requesting and granting Containers within an enterprise. Container requesting is a role-based administration feature which helps the Node administrator to interactively create and assign thousands of Containers to any number of users. Some part of the work to be done is entrusted to users. Here is a stereotyped requesting scenario.

Scenario: A client requests a Container using the login the Node administrator previously provided him with.

1. A client places a Container request. S/he selects a Container sample for the Container s/he requests, enters a password to access the Container s/he requests and leaves comments for the administrator.
2. The placement of the request launches generating and sending the Node administrator an email informing of the fact.
3. When informed, the Node administrator checks the list of placed requests and accepts or declines the request.
4. Both accepting and declining sends the client an email informing him/her whether the placed request has been accepted or not.
5. The client checks the list of the requests s/he placed. Has the Node administrator carried out the request, the corresponding Container is ready to be used.

The settings and steps necessary for this scenario are:

1. To allow the clients to place Container requests, the Node administrator enables the Container Requesting and sets, or creates the users roles reserved for those clients who are suggested to request Containers. These roles must include the privilege to request Containers.
2. To exchange Container request emails with clients, the Node administrator enables the email notification.
3. To check the list of Container requests, the Node administrator follows the direction given in the Container Requests subsection.
4. To process a request, the Node administrator selects the request and follows the direction given in the Viewing and Processing Pending Requests subsection.

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