Who controls which profiles can be used in a project?

As a project administrator, you can control which operating system profiles the users in your project can build hosts with.

TeamForge Lab Management's Profile Library gives ownership of profiles to individual projects, or to the entire domain. Profiles can either be public (available to all projects on the site) or private (available only to the project which owns the profile).

However, that fact that a profile is public, or belongs to the project, does not necessarily mean that it can be used to rebuild hosts. The profile must be specifically allowed for use in the project by a project administrator before it can be used to rebuild hosts.

Sometimes it is desirable not to restrict an entire profile, but only one or more versions of that profile. Individual versions of a profile can be prohibited by the project administrator of the project which owns the profile using the Profile Admin screen.

If the profile does not belong to your project, you cannot restrict the use of that profile at the individual version level: that decision is made at the discretion of the owners of the profile.

If you are the project administrator of the project which owns a profile, you can change the profile's public/private status at any time using the Profile Admin screen.

When you prohibit a profile from your project, this has no effect on hosts which are already built inside your project. They will continue to function normally running the profile they were already running. The owner of the system, however, will be unable to rebuild the system with its current profile, or any other profile which is not allowed in the project.

As a project administrator, you may wish to force your users to rebuild their systems once you have prohibited the use of a profile. On the Profile Summary page you can find a listing of all systems that are running each profile. This helps you track down systems running a profile that you have prohibited, and with your project administrator privileges, you can rebuild those systems with a profile of your choice.