Tenants

Flowmon allows you to run a multi-tenant environment.

A tenant is an isolated environment for creating and managing users and their permissions. Each user and role is defined in a single tenant. By default, all current permissions are defined in the Base tenant.

Note that you can still use Flowmon in single tenant mode and you are not required to create any new subtenants.

A tenant administrator can create multiple tenants defined by flow sources and profiles visible for a particular tenant. A tenant administrator can also manage users and roles within the tenant - assign visibilities on flow sources to users and roles. A tenant administrator can assign a subset of flow sources and profiles according to tenant definition.

Tenant overview page

The Tenant overview page is divided into two parts. The upper part displays the current tenant summary whereas the bottom part displays the subtenants structure and current tenant visibility details.

Current tenant summary

Tenant users shows the number of users created in this tenant.

Visibilities show how many sources and profiles are assigned to this tenant. The base tenant has full visibility - access to the data of profiles and source is not restricted on this level. Visible profiles and sources can be restricted to users also by role definition (see Role Access Permissions for more information).

Sub-tenants shows the number of tenants created in this tenant.

Tenant administrators shows the number of users with tenant administration role for this tenant.

Sub-tenants structure tab

This tab lists direct sub-tenants of the current tenant.

Current tenant visibilities tab

You can see active subtenant's visibilities in the Visibilities tab (this tab is hidden in the base tenant, because of the full visibility).

Creating/Updating a Tenant

Click New tenant to create a new subtenant. Fill in the tenant name, description, and specify the visibility settings. All users within the tenant can see data only from profiles and sources specified here. To save your changes, click Save. You can create tenants up to two levels of nesting (base tenant > level 1 subtenant > level 2 subtenant). In the base tenant, you can create tenants for the first level of nesting. To create tenants for the second level of nesting, switch to a subtenant where you want to create this tenant.

If you want to edit an existing tenant, click Edit. An edit form pops up. To save changes, click Save. You can delete tenants by clicking Delete. Base tenant deletion is not allowed and its visibilities cannot be changed.

Changing active tenant

The active tenant name is displayed next to the name of the currently logged-in user. To change the active tenant, select the user name. A drop-down menu appears. Select the active tenant name and choose a tenant from the drop-down with all available tenants (see Roles for more information about tenant accessibility).