Raritan Engineering Command Center CC-SG - Manual (Page 51)

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Chapter 4: Creating Associations
Associations
CC-SG provides powerful, highly customizable organizational capabilities. Associations provide
this organizational capability and are used to organize your equipment. For example, you may
have Raritan devices that manage target servers in a New York data center and a Philadelphia
data center. Associations help in grouping and displaying Raritan device and target systems in the
CC-SG web interface. For example, the following screen is a custom view that hierarchically
displays three data centers, that is, DataCenter1, NYC, and Philadelphia, and the type of target
servers in them. You can customize the CC-SG to organize and display your servers however you
like.
Figure 35 CC-SG Organization Example
Associations-Defining Categories and Elements
An important concept in CC-SG is categories and elements. Categories and elements are defined
with the Association Wizard or Association Manager. Raritan devices and ports are organized by
category and elements. Each category/element pair is assigned to a device, a port, or both.
Therefore, you need to define your categories and elements before you add a Raritan device and
configure ports in CC-SG.
A category is a group, or set, of similar elements. For example, you could have a category to
group your Raritan devices by location. So, Location, can be a category and could contain a set of
elements, such as New York City and Philadelphia. These organizational capabilities are defined
using the Association Wizard or Association Manager.
The categories and elements are also used by policies, which are used to control user access to
servers. The above example can be used to create policies to control user access to only NYC
servers, or network ports, or any combination such as MS2003 servers in NYC.