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Tenants

A tenant represents a discrete grouping of resources used for administrative purposes. Typically, tenants are used to represent individual customers or internal departments within an organization. The following objects can be assigned to tenants:

  • Sites
  • Racks
  • Rack reservations
  • Devices
  • VRFs
  • Prefixes
  • IP addresses
  • VLANs
  • Circuits
  • Clusters
  • Virtual machines

Tenant assignment is used to signify the ownership of an object in NetBox. As such, each object may only be owned by a single tenant. For example, if you have a firewall dedicated to a particular customer, you would assign it to the tenant which represents that customer. However, if the firewall serves multiple customers, it doesn't belong to any particular customer, so tenant assignment would not be appropriate.