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.
A list of existing top-level consumers in your tree displays.
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.
Some of these properties may be already filled out or disabled depending on which tree level you are adding a consumer to.
The name can be up to 32 characters long and cannot be the same as any other consumer in your tree.
Specified administrators automatically become administrators for any other consumers created on this branch.
You must specify at least one user in order for the consumer to run workload.
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.
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.
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 terminates all workload running and reclaims the resource almost immediately.
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.