Provisioning contexts

A provisioning context is the combination of an organization and location that you specify for orcharhino components. The organization and location that a component belongs to sets the ownership and access for that component.

Organizations divide orcharhino components into logical groups based on ownership, purpose, content, security level, and other divisions. You can create and manage multiple organizations through orcharhino and assign components to each individual organization. This ensures orcharhino Server provisions hosts within a certain organization and only uses components that are assigned to that organization. For more information about organizations, see Managing Organizations in Managing Organizations and Locations.

Locations function similar to organizations. The difference is that locations are based on physical or geographical setting. Users can nest locations in a hierarchy. For more information about locations, see Managing Locations in Managing Organizations and Locations.

Setting the provisioning context

When you set a provisioning context, you define which organization and location to use for provisioning hosts.

The organization and location menus are located in the menu bar, on the upper left of the orcharhino management UI. If you have not selected an organization and location to use, the menu displays: Any Organization and Any Location.

Procedure

  1. Click Any Organization and select the organization.

  2. Click Any Location and select the location to use.

Each user can set their default provisioning context in their account settings. Click the user name in the upper right of the orcharhino management UI and select My account to edit your user account settings.

CLI procedure

  • When using the CLI, include either --organization or --organization-label and --location or --location-id as an option. For example:

    $ hammer host list --organization "My_Organization" --location "My_Location"

    This command outputs hosts allocated to My_Organization and My_Location.

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