How to setup and manage console users

Elastic Cloud Gate provides options to create multiple users (console users) who can access ECG portal under your primary account. For each user, you can specify permission on the action as well as on the object level.

For example, you can grant access to start only a single EC2 Instance.

To create a console user from the Settings menu, select Manage Users.

Enter user email and password.

To force the user to change password with next login, check User must change password with next login.

From the Access Type drop down list, select either Elastic Cloud Gate Dashboard or Security Group & Dashboard. To learn more about Security Group access type, go to:

How to temporary open AWS Security Groups rules for dynamic IP

To send a notification email to the new user, check Send notification email to user.

If for security reasons, if you do not want to include the password in the email, check Don’t include password in email.

Click Add New User.

Note: Console user has to use different URL to login to ECG portal. The URL is: https://portal.ecloudgate.com/console/login.aspx

In addition, beside email and password, the user is asked for the access code on the login page.

You can see your access code on the Users Management page. This number is statically assigned to your account and does not change.

When the new user is created, you can grant him permission to actions and objects available in ECG portal.

To grant permission, within the users table from the context menu, select Permissions.

You can grant permissions as follows:

To grant access for individual actions and objects, review each section and make the appropriate selection; to apply changes, click Save under each section.

Permissions are applied only to actions and objects under the selected account and region.

To apply or revoke permission to all actions and objects under the selected account, region, and section, click the down arrow on the Permissions button and select either Grant All or Revoke All. If you want to revoke permissions to the given section from all accounts and region, choose Revoke All Accounts & Region.

To grant permission to all actions and objects in all sections under the selected account and region, click Grant All on the top panel. In the same way, you can revoke all permissions by clicking Revoke All.

To grant permission to all actions and objects under the selected account, regardless of region or section, make the user an administrator. To make user an administrator, check Make user Administrator of the selected account and click Save.

At any time, you can edit or delete the console user by selecting the appropriate option from the context menu.

If you need to temporarily prevent the console user from logging in, from the context menu select Locked. To unlock user account, select Unlocked from the context menu.

All actions taken by the console user are recorded. You can review those actions by selecting Audit Log from the context menu.