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See how easy you can create an OTDS tenant

Hi there AppWorks fans,

Welcome to a new installment of AppWorks tips.

This time a totally different topic, but I need to cover this one as I have a requirement that needs this feature. It is called multi-tenancy on the already running OTDS instance.

Why? I want to make use of the AppWorks connector for Documentum and to make this feature work (in a supported environment) you need to have a second OTDS instance where you can save new partitions, resources and accessibility settings!

But is multi-tenancy not just the same as a new instance of the OTDS?…Yes it is, but creating a second tenant is easy to accomplish and you don’t need to have a second service/server up and running which is also cheaper and faster to setup.

Let get right into it…

First make sure your OTDS instance is running bright and shining!

http://192.168.56.107:8181/otds-admin/ and login with ‘otadmin@otds.admin’. For me it’s password ‘admin’

tenant_001

Now that it is up and running, we can close it again as we need go back to the server/VM with MobaXTerm or PuTTY via SSH. Make connection and go to the installation directory of OTDS

cd /opt/opentext/otds/install/

Now give the needed file ‘execute’ permission with chmod +x otdstenant.sh

And give this magic command: ./otdstenant.sh -addtenant dctm admin

  • dctm is the name of the tenant
  • admin is the password for the tenant specific user ‘otadmin@otds.admin’

You get some logging output that should end with ***** OtdsDeploy Ended *****

Other commands

To remove it you can do ./otdstenant.sh -removetenant dctm

Or in some circumstances you just want to disable the tenant with ./otdstenant.sh -disabletenant dctm

Or enable it again…./otdstenant.sh -enabletenant dctm

For more information look in the OpenText PDF OpenText Directory Services 20.1.1 - Tenant Management Guide

Access the tenant

Ok…we’ve created a new tenant, but now what?

Normally we login with this URL: http://192.168.56.107:8181/otds-admin

Let’s access our tenant be using this URL: http://192.168.56.107:8181/otdstenant/dctm/otds-admin

You can use your account ‘otadmin@otds.admin’ with the password you provided in the ‘addtenant’ command!

And there you have it. A new tenant on top of the already running OTDS instance. A clean and simple “DONE” this time! Nothing more and nothing less, but ready for you start using this new tenant that can be treated as ‘new OTDS instance’.

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