Modify consumer properties

You must have created at least one consumer before you can modify consumer properties.

You must either be a cluster administrator or a consumer administrator for this branch to modify consumer properties.

You can modify your consumer properties including user accounts or user groups who have access as consumer administrators and consumer users, execution user account, resources available for a consumer and all its sub-consumers, and reclaim behavior.

You can modify any consumer at any level of your existing tree, but do not modify the built-in ManagementServices consumer. You may see different fields for different levels of consumers in your tree.

  1. Click Consumers > Consumers & Plans.

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

  2. Locate the consumer you want to modify in the tree and click on it.

    A list of sub-consumers displays.

  3. Click Consumer Properties.

    The Consumer Properties page displays.

  4. Modify the consumer properties.

    The consumer name cannot be changed.

    1. Optional: Choose one or more administrators for this consumer. By default, the cluster administrator is the consumer administrator.

      This option is only available only for a top-level consumer (a consumer just beneath your cluster.)

    2. Choose zero, one, or more users for this consumer.

      If you do not specify at least one user, the consumer cannot be used to run workload.

    3. Specify the workload execution user account (the OS account under which workload runs).

      If you specify a Windows user account that has not already been configured, you have to run egosh ego execpasswd before you can use the consumer.

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

      If you do not specify at least one resource group, workload does not run for this consumer.

    5. 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 high (compared to the average length of your workload) allows workload to finish before the resource is reclaimed. Setting the reclaim grace period to 1 kills all workload running and reclaims the resource almost immediately.

    6. (Optional) Check the Rebalance when time intervals change 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 Apply.

    The Consumer Properties page updates and your changes are saved.

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