AGOL Auto Assign Licenses

HHight

I am currently standing up an AGOL environment that will have 1000 licenses. This is a standalone site (PDS) for a very specific project where users from different organizations will be accessing and contributing content. I am looking for a way to "automate" allocating licenses. The problem is, we do not have a list of potential users and users may request a license at anytime across a 6 month period.

Rather than subject an employee to assigning and monitoring licenses, we would like a way to potentially automate some or all of this process. My first thought was "Surely Esri has a tool for this!" but no, nothing exists... I have been looking into a python solution, but am not sure this is even possible. 

Anyone here have experience with automating AGOL license allocation? Or have any ideas?

Justin_Greco

You can use Python to create users below are the samples included in the API Reference

You can also do it from the REST API as well:

https://developers.arcgis.com/rest/enterprise-administration/portal/create-user/

 

#Usage Example 1: New ArcGIS Online user using `New Member Defaults`

>>> ago = GIS(profile='your_online_admin_profile')

>>> for k,v in ago.users.user_settings.items():
>>>     print(f'{k:20}{v}')

role                org_publisher
userLicenseType     advancedUT
groups              ['96c9a826e654481ba2cf8f6d04137b32']
userType            arcgisonly
apps                []
appBundles          []
categories          []

>>> new_user = ago.users.create(username= 'new_unique_username',
                                password= '<strong_password>',
                                firstname= 'user_firstname',
                                lastname= 'user_lastname',
                                email= 'user_email@company.com',
                                description= 'new user using member defaults'))

# Usage Example 2: New ArcGIS Online user with custom role and non-default `user_type`

# Get RoleManager and print `role_id` values for `role` argument
>>> role_mgr = gis.users.roles

>>> for role in role_mgr.all():
>>>     print(f'{role.name}  {role.role_id}')

Viewer              iAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Data Editor         iBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB
CustomRole          bKrTCjFF9tKbaFk8

# Print valid values for `user_type` argument
>>> [ut['id'] for ut in ago.users.license_types]

['advancedUT',
'basicUT',
'creatorUT',
'editorUT',
'fieldWorkerUT',
'GISProfessionalAdvUT',
'GISProfessionalBasicUT',
'GISProfessionalStdUT',
'IndoorsUserUT',
'insightsAnalystUT',
'liteUT',
'standardUT',
'storytellerUT',
'viewerUT']

>>> user1 = ago.users.create(username='new_unique_username',
                             password='<strong_password>',
                             firstname="user_firstname",
                             lastname="user_lastname",
                             email="user_email@company.com",
                             description="Test user with custom role and non-default user type.",
                             role='bKrTCjFF9tKbaFk8',
                             user_type='creatorUT')

# Usage Example 3: New User invited with an email:

>>> user_e = ago.users.create(username="new_invited_uk_Q42eklm",
                              password="S8V3*t4L8tr!&",
                              firstname="user_firstname",
                              lastname="user_lastname",
                              email="user_email@company.com",
                              description="Test for an invited user to Online.",
                              user_type="creatorUT",
                              role="XBH3xJArWxYuK2qX",
                              email_text="Welcome aboard the Web GIS organization!")