Create a consumer

To create a consumer, you must either be a cluster administrator or a consumer administrator for the branch on which you are creating a consumer.

  1. Click Consumers > Consumers & Plans.

    A list of existing top-level consumers in your tree displays.

  2. Locate and click on the tree level for which you would like to add a consumer.
  3. From Global Actions, select Create a Consumer.

    The Create a Consumer page displays.

    You can create a consumer at any level of your existing tree, except where a consumer already has something registered to it; in this case, no other consumers can be created below it in the tree.

  4. Fill in the consumer properties.

    Some of these properties may be already filled out or disabled depending on which tree level you are adding a consumer to.

    1. Specify a name for your new consumer.

      The name can be up to 32 characters long and cannot be the same as any other consumer in your tree.

    2. Choose one or more user accounts to be administrators for this consumer; otherwise, leave this field blank.

      Specified administrators automatically become administrators for any other consumers created on this branch.

    3. Specify zero, one, or more users for this consumer.
    4. Specify the workload execution user account (the OS account under which workload runs).

      This field may be pre-populated, but you can modify it. Windows accounts should include a domain name.

      If you specify a Windows user account that has not already been configured, you have to log on to EGO as the cluster administrator and then run egosh ego execpasswd before the execution user can run an activity without exiting.

    5. Specify one or more resource groups this consumer should have access to.

      Only the resource groups specified by this consumer's parent are available for selection. If you have not modified your resource groups, you can keep the default resource group selections.

    6. Specify a reclaim grace period.

      The reclaim grace period is applied when a resource belonging to another consumer is now being reclaimed by its owner consumer. Setting the reclaim grace period higher than the length of time to complete your workload allows workload to finish before the resource is reclaimed. Setting the reclaim grace period to 1 second terminates all workload running and reclaims the resource almost immediately.

    7. (Optional) Check the Rebalance when resource plan changes or time interval changes box.

      If you want EGO to “rebalance” or reset the ownership when a new time interval occurs with a change in ownership of resources, check this box. Similarly, when resources are reclaimed (or passed back to their original owners), you can evoke a rebalancing in accordance with the resource plan.

      Before EGO rebalances according to the resource plan, a consumer’s grace period is honored to help ensure workload is completed before being killed.

  5. Click Create.

You may need to configure the Windows password of the execution user account.