Consumer settings

Create consumers to associate user resources with users of those resources.

Resources used by consumers, such as virtual machines or volumes, are grouped by company or business system consumer (also called management unit). Consumer definitions allow you to do the following:

• Search for consumer resources when the number of customer managed-resources increases.

• Verify which consumers are affected by failures on managed resources.

• Define the level of importance (grade) for each consumer to help you understand the problem severity and number of problems for each grade.

The following table is an example of creating four consumers based on the level of importance of business systems used by two companies.

In this example, four consumers are created.