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# Onboarding checklist for multi-tenant central licensing deployments

Follow this checklist to activate parent tenants, create child tenants, and configure user access for centrally licensed Cortex XSIAM deployments.

We recommend that you review the following steps to successfully deploy and onboard Cortex XSIAM with central licensing management. For MSSP multi-tenant environments with customer-owned licenses, see [Onboarding checklist for multi-tenant customer-owned license deployments](/cortex-xsiam/configure-cortex-xsiam/multi-tenant/onboard-cortex-multi-tenant/onboarding-checklist-for-multi-tenant-customer-owned-license-deployments.md).

This checklist enables you to set up a multi-tenant deployment. After onboarding, you should configure Cortex XSIAM to suit your needs. For more information, see [Configure Cortex XSIAM](/cortex-xsiam/configure-cortex-xsiam/configure-cortex-xsiam.md).

| Step                               | Details                                                                                                                              | See More                                                                                                                                                                                                     |
| ---------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| Step 1. Activate the parent tenant | <ul><li>Activate Cortex XSIAM in Cortex Gateway for the parent tenant</li><li>Enable access to Palo Alto Network resources</li></ul> | [See topic](/cortex-xsiam/configure-cortex-xsiam/multi-tenant/onboard-cortex-multi-tenant/onboarding-checklist-for-multi-tenant-central-licensing-deployments/step-1.-activate-cortex-xsiam-main-account.md) |
| Step 2. Create a child tenant      | Create and activate a child tenant in Cortex Gateway.                                                                                | [See topic](/cortex-xsiam/configure-cortex-xsiam/multi-tenant/onboard-cortex-multi-tenant/onboarding-checklist-for-multi-tenant-central-licensing-deployments/step-2.-create-a-child-tenant.md)              |
| Step 3. Set up users and roles     | Set up users, roles, user groups, and user authentication.                                                                           | [See topic](/cortex-xsiam/onboard-cortex-xsiam/deployment-steps/set-up-users-and-roles.md)                                                                                                                   |


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