Raritan Engineering Command Center CC-SG - Manual (Page 52)

36 C OMMAND C ENTER S ECURE G ATEWAY A DMINISTRATOR G UIDE
Other examples of typical Association configurations of Category and Elements are as follows:
C ATEGORY E LEMENTS
Location New York City, Philadelphia, DC1
OS Type Unix, Windows, Linux
Department Sales, IT, Engineering
Port Type KVM, Serial, Power
Association configurations should be kept simple to accomplish server/port organizational
objectives and user access objectives. It is important to realize that a port can only be assigned to
a single element of a category. For example, a target server cannot be assigned to both the
Windows and Unix elements of the OS Type category above.
A useful approach for organizing your systems when servers are similar and need to be randomly
organized is the following:
C ATEGORY E LEMENT
usergroup1 usergroup1port
usergroup2 usergroup2port
usergroup3 usergroup3port
The design and specification of the Association requirements should be done prior to setting up
CC-SG. You should give careful thought upfront on how you want to organize and display your
Raritan devices and target systems and how you want to control user access to the ports.
As you add devices and ports, you link them to your predefined categories and elements. When
you create port and device groups to include in a policy, you will use your categories and
elements to define which ports and devices go in each group.
Association Terminology
You should read the following definitions to understand associations:
• Associations—is the relationship between categories, elements of a category, and ports or
devices or both. For example, you want to associate the “Location” category with a device.
You should create associations first, or edit them later, before adding devices and ports in
CC-SG.
• Category—is a variable that contains a set values or elements. An example of a Category is
Location, which may have elements such as “New York City, “Philadelphia”, or “Data
Center 1”. When you add devices and ports to CC-SG, you will associate this information
with them. It is easier if you set up associations correctly first, before adding devices and
ports to them. Another example of a Category is “OS Type”, which may have elements such
as “Windows” or “Unix” or “Linux”.
• Elements—are the values of a category. For example, the “New York City” element belongs
to the “Location” category. Or, the “Windows” element belongs to the “OS Type” category.