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Enterprise Deployment Models - On-Premise and Private Agent

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We have been actively improving our Maestro solution in terms of deployment options. Recently we implemented the new functionality supporting private regions in order to complete the Enterprise deployment model , adding the possibility to install Maestro as a private agent in order to manage OpenStack and VMWare private regions, as well as install a refactoring full-functioning version of Maestro application on a single instance within the customers' infrastructure. Thus, the set of SaaS deployment models supported by Maestro is this: Standard deployment model A single-entry point to the unified and simply organized reporting for all customer’s resources across all public clouds they use.  A set of analytics tools for all virtual resources under the customer’s account. This includes analytics on instance and tenant levels.  Quotas management tool, that allows to set up the monthly expense limits for virtual infrastructures and the scenarios for different stages of quo

Notifications Improvements

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Maestro application is being constantly evolving to meet the growing needs of our customers. One of such grand-scale enhancement is the significantly improved layout and performance of the Notifications page. In order to make notifications review and management more convenient and user friendly, as well as to work with letters more effectively, we updated the logic of displaying letters on the Notifications page and added sorting functionality . Such an approach now allows users to perform a more manageable and efficient search for necessary letters. We also reviewed the content of all notifications sent by Maestro, in order to make the provided information transparent and easy-to-use. The updated Notifications page contains the following elements: 1 . Letters are displayed in a Compact View mode, which allows to preview content without opening them. You can approve a required action by clicking the Approve / Reject buttons, review the attachment, and perform bas

Operation Portal

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As one of the fundamental Maestro features, we would like to introduce Operation portal , a platform for providing a comfortable and efficient way of managing customers’ infrastructures. The Operation portal was implemented to allow our users to independently manage tenants and tenant groups . Such a comprehensive approach allows us to fundamentally simplify the work of the end-user in managing their infrastructures from the administration perspective. It will also allow the customer administrator to manage tenants and regions not only via the admin CLI but also via the convenient and intuitively understandable web UI . The portal is available for users with customer administrative permissions . The list of respective email addresses should be provided when activating a customer in Maestro. A user with customer administrator permissions will be able to, apart from managing permissions and user groups, perform the following operations: Manage contacts in a tenant