Setting Up Container Requesting

As a Hardware Node Administrator, you have the privilege to carry out the users requests for creating more Containers for them to manage. To have this option in effect, use the following options on the Setup tab (accessible by following the Workflow link in the Management group on the left Infrastructure Manager menu):

1. to make it possible to request Containers, select the Enable Container Requests check button in the General group.
2. In the Container Samples table, select one or more Container configuration samples which users requesting a Container will be able to choose for their Container creation. To this effect, select the corresponding template name(s) in the Container Samples table and click the >> button.
3. The Container Owner Default Role menu further defines the future users' administrative privileges they will have in respect of the Container that will be possibly created for them. On this menu you will find roles that either have been previously created or are built-in. The built-in roles are:
   • Administrator;
   • Node Administrator;
   • Helpdesk;
   • Container Administrator;
   • Plesk Administrator;
   • Workflow User;
   • PIM User;
   • Power Panel User.

   Each of these roles covers a certain number of tasks supposed to be routinely performed on the Hardware Nodes registered in Parallels Infrastructure Manager and/or the Containers residing on them.

4. the Hostname Input option allows you to define whether entering the future Container hostname, when making a Container request, is:
   • required (select Visible, Required from the Hostname Input drop-down menu);
   • impossible (select Hidden);
   • optional (select Visible, Optional).

To save the changes, click Submit, to discard the changes, click Cancel.

After you have enabled Container requests and set up their properties, Containers can be requested by Infrastructure Manager users by following the New Container Request link on the Container Requests page. However, for the user to be able to request a Container in this way, they should have the Workflow User role defined globally in Infrastructure Manager.

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