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  • Administrator overview
  • Managing users and permissions
    • User roles and access permissions
    • Creating users
    • Editing users
    • Unlocking a user account
    • Resending a user activation link
    • Deleting or deactivating users
    • Using groups
    • Managing departments
    • Managing passwords and password policies
    • Setting account-wide access policies
    • Changing a resource owner
    • Using Single Sign-On (SSO)
      • Using Single Sign-on (SSO) with Azure Active Directory (AAD)
      • Configuring an ADFS claim rule for SSO
  • Managing account-wide settings
    • Adding container registries
  • Managing public IP addresses
  • Managing WANs
    • Overview: VPNs
      • Creating a VPN
        • VPN configuration parameters
          • AWS VPC: VPN configuration example
          • Azure VPN: VPN configuration example
          • Cisco ASA: VPN configuration example
          • Cisco IOS: VPN configuration example
          • Juniper SRX: VPN configuration example
          • pfSense: VPN configuration example
          • strongSwan: VPN configuration example
    • Overview: Skytap on Azure ExpressRoute connections
      • Creating a Skytap on Azure ExpressRoute connection
      • Creating a customer-managed Skytap on Azure ExpressRoute connection
    • Testing the WAN
      • Troubleshooting VPN test failures
    • Connecting an environment network to a WAN
    • Configuring WAN access controls
    • Editing an existing WAN connection
    • Disable a WAN
  • Managing Metered RAM and storage usage
    • How usage is calculated
    • Viewing current usage and enabling pay-as-you-go capacity
    • Reserved capacity for Skytap on Azure
    • Reserved capacity for Skytap on IBM Cloud
    • Setting usage limits
    • Setting up notifications
    • VM pinning
  • Reporting overview
    • Viewing and exporting user information
    • Viewing and exporting group information
    • Generating department reports
    • Generating audit reports
      • Configuring the webhook service for audit data
    • Viewing usage data
      • Using labels for in-depth reporting
      • Creating usage label categories
      • Configuring the webhook service for usage data
    • Enabling other users to generate reports
  • Security best practices
  • Other best practices
  • Sharing templates with users in other Skytap accounts
  • Finding the source environment from a sharing portal URL
  • Including your logo in the Skytap interface

Administrator Guide

Administrators have access to a range of tools and features for managing users and permissions, managing account-wide settings, controlling Metered RAM and storage usage, and running reports.

For a high-level overview, see Administrator overview.

usersAdd and manage users

  • User roles and access permissions.
  • Creating user accounts
  • Resending a user activation link
  • Edit a user’s information, user role, or additional permissions
  • Changing the owner of an environment, template, project, or asset
  • Unlocking a user account
  • Deleting or deactivating users
  • Add users to departments or groups.

accessManage account access

  • Setting access policies
  • Managing passwords and password policies
  • Editing SSO settings or disabling SSO for the customer account
  • Security best practices

resourcesManage account resources

  • Learn how usage is calculated.
  • Manage account-wide Metered RAM and storage usage.
  • Set up notification emails.
  • Set usage limits.
  • Generate auditing reports, usage reports, and more.

wansPublic IP addresses and WANs

  • Manage public IP addresses
  • Manage VPNs and Private Network Connections

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