Before You Start

Overview

Cloud Bastion Host (CBH) is a unified security management and control platform provided by Huawei Cloud. It provides account, authorization, authentication, and audit management services.

Before calling CBH APIs, ensure that you are familiar with CBH concepts. For details, see Service Overview.

API Calling

CBH supports Representational State Transfer (REST) APIs, allowing you to call APIs using HTTPS. For more information, see Calling APIs.

Endpoints

An endpoint is the request address for calling an API. Endpoints vary depending on services and regions. Obtain the regions and endpoints from the enterprise administrator.

Basic Concepts

Account
An account is created upon successful registration. The account has full access permissions for all of its cloud services and resources. It can be used to reset user passwords and grant user permissions. The domain is a payment entity and should not be used directly to perform routine management. For security purposes, create users and grant them permissions for routine management.
User
A user is created using a domain to use cloud services. Each user has its own identity credentials (password and access keys).

The account name, username, and password will be required for API authentication.
Region
Regions are divided based on geographical location and network latency. Public services, such as Elastic Cloud Server (ECS), Elastic Volume Service (EVS), Object Storage Service (OBS), Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Elastic IP (EIP), and Image Management Service (IMS), are shared within the same region. Regions are classified as universal regions and dedicated regions. A universal region provides universal cloud services for common users. A dedicated region provides services of the same type only or for specific users.
Availability Zone (AZ)
An AZ comprises one or multiple physical data centers equipped with independent ventilation, fire, water, and electricity facilities. Compute, network, storage, and other resources in an AZ are logically divided into multiple clusters. AZs within a region are interconnected using high-speed optical fibers to allow you to build highly available systems across AZs.
Project
A project corresponds to a region. Projects group and isolate resources (including compute, storage, and network resources) across physical regions. Users can be granted permissions in a default project to access all resources in the region associated with the project. For more refined access control, create subprojects under a project and create resources in the subprojects. Users can then be assigned permissions to access only specific resources in the subprojects.

Figure 1 Project isolation model
Enterprise Project
Enterprise projects group and manage resources across regions. Resources in enterprise projects are logically isolated from each other. An enterprise project can contain resources of multiple regions, and resources can be added to or removed from enterprise projects.

For details about how to obtain enterprise project IDs and enterprise project features, see Enterprise Management User Guide.