Setting up multiple tenancy in reporting
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OnCommand Insight Data Warehouse accommodates multiple tenancy (often shortened to “multi-tenancy” or “multitenancy”) in reporting by allowing you to associate users with one or more business entities. With this feature, administrators can separate data or reports according to user attributes or user affiliation.
Business entities use a hierarchy for the purposes of capacity chargeback using the following values:
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Tenant: Primarily used by service providers to associate resources with a customer, for example, NetApp.
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Line of Business (LOB): A line of business within a company, for example "Hardware" or "Software."
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Business Unit: A traditional business unit such as "Sales" or "Marketing."
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Project: A project to which you might want to assign capacity chargeback.
The process of configuring multiple tenancy involves the following major steps:
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Configure a Data Warehouse user account.
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Create a group in Reporting Portal.
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Assign users to one or more groups, which represent business entities.
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Assign users to one or more business entities. For example, users associated with "NetApp" obtain access to all business entities that have “NetApp” as a tenant.
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Test that users can see only those reports that they should see.
The following points summarize how users access reporting data:
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A user, not assigned to any group, gets access to all the data.
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A user, assigned to any group, will not be able to get access to records without business entity.
For example, you might have the following departments and need to separate reports for users within these departments.
User |
Engineering |
Support |
Finance |
Legal |
User1 |
X |
X |
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User2 |
X |
X |
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User3 |
X |