General Management
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This guide provides instructions on how to manage general settings for your tenant, and personal account settings in F5® Distributed Cloud Services. The tenant-level settings allow you to control user access, and define policies around it and user-level personal account settings allow you to configure settings such as notification preferences, Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), etc. To know more information about supported user access management, see User Access Management.
Using the instructions provided in this guide, you can configure tenant policies such as password policy and personal settings such as MFA and notification preferences.
Prerequisites
The following prerequisites apply:
- Note: If you do not have an account, see Create an Account.
- Tenant settings such as
Login Options
require theTenant Owner
role.
- Note: See Access Policies and Rules for more informatiom.
Configure Tenant Settings
The information provided in this chapter covers tenant-level settings, and some of these settings may require you to have the Tenant Owner
role.
Perform the following to configure tenant settings:
Step 1: Log into F5® Distributed Cloud Console, go to tenant settings.
- Open
F5® Distributed Cloud Console
> selectAdministration
box.
Note: Homepage is role based, and your homepage may look different due to your role customization. Select
All Services
drop-down menu to discover all options. Customize Settings:Administration
>Personal Management
>My Account
>Edit work domain & skills
button >Advanced
box > checkWork Domain
boxes >Save changes
button.
Note: Confirm
Namespace
feature is in correct namespace, drop-down selector located in upper-left corner. Not available in all services.
- Select
Tenant Settings
in left-menu > selectTenant Overview
.
Note: If options are not showing available, select
Show
link inAdvanced nav options visible
in bottom left corner. If needed, selectHide
to minimize options from Advanced nav options mode.
Step 2: Configure custom logo.
- Select
Change Logo
inCustom Logo
section to load custom logo form.
- Select
Upload Image
, and upload image for your logo.
Note: Ensure that the image complies with the requirement displayed on the form.
- Select
Save
.
Step 3: Configure expiry policy for credentials.
- Select
Setup Expiration Preferences
inCredential Expiry Policy
section to load the expiry configuration form.
- Enter maximum expiry duration in number of days for your
API certificate
,kubeconfig
, andAPI token
in boxes.
- Select
Save
.
Note: The default expiry is 90 days. See Credentials guide for information on how to create credentials.
Step 4: Set tenant policies.
- Select
Setup Policies
inTenant Configuration
section to load tenant policy configuration form.
- Enter
Display Name
for your tenant in the basic configuration section.
Note: This name gets displayed in the tenant login screen.
- Enter value in
Brute Force Detection Settings
box inMax Login Failures
box.
Note: When the number of login failures reaches the set limit, user is temporarily locked for a maximum duration of 15 minutes.
-
In
Password Policy
section:-
Min Number Of Digits
: Enter value in box to specify minimum number of required digits in password. -
Min Number Of Lowercase Characters
: Enter value in box to specify minimum number of lower case characters in the password. -
Min Number Of Uppercase Characters
: Enter value in box to specify minimum number of upper case characters in the password. -
Min Number Of Special Characters
: Enter value in box to specify minimum number of special characters in the password.
Note: Special characters are characters such as
?!#%$
.-
Check
Not Username
box to ensure password is not the same as username. -
Expire Password
: Enter value to set a password expiry time period. -
Not Recently Used
: Enter value to restrict the user from using a number of previously used passwords when changing password. -
Minimum Length
: Enter value to specify minimum length for the password length (string).
-
- Select
Save and Exit
button.
Step 5: Delete tenant.
In case you wish to delete the tenant, do the following:
-
Select
Request Deletion
on theTenant Information
section to load the tenant deletion request form. -
Select an option from the drop-down list for the
Please choose a reason for tenant deletion
box. -
Optionally, enter additional feedback in the
Please provide additional feedback below (optional)
box. -
Type
Delete
in thePlease type 'Delete' for confirmation
field, and selectRequest tenant deletion and log out
button.
Configure User Personal Settings
Perform the following to configure your personal settings. Personal settings are for individual users, and consists of configurations such as Two-factor authentication, passwords, profile pictures, and notification preferences.
Log into F5® Distributed Cloud Console and do the following:
Step 1: Navigate to user settings.
- Open
F5® Distributed Cloud Console
> selectAdministration
box.
- Select
Personal Management
in left-menu > selectMy Account
.
Step 2: Set a profile picture.
-
Select on the camera icon displayed under the
Personal Settings
section. -
Select
Upload Image
to upload image for your profile.
Note: Ensure that the image complies with the requirement displayed on the form.
- Select
Save
button.
Step 3: Configure two-factor authentication.
- Select
Enable two-factor authentication
in theTwo-factor authentication
section. Wait for the display to indicate that it isEnabling
.
-
Log out and log in to start setting up the two-factor authentication.
-
Follow the instructions displayed on the login screen, and complete setting up the two-factor authentication.
Note: You can use the
Disable two-factor authentication
option in theTwo-factor authentication
section to disable the authentication anytime.
Step 4: Change password.
-
Select
Change Password
in thePassword
section to update your password. -
This will result in an email to the email address associated with the tenant.
-
Follow the instructions in the email to update your password.
Step 5: Set notification preferences.
Select Manage Notification Preferences
in the Notification Preferences
section to specify which notifications you prefer to receive.