Planning your hierarchy, Naming organizations, Managing user accounts – HP Storage Essentials NAS Manager Software User Manual

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hosts in the report. This is also true for e-mailing reports. Let's assume again you do not have

permission to access hosts. The reports you e-mail will not contain information about hosts,

including the host specific reports. If the users receiving your reports want to be able to view

information about hosts, one of the following must happen:
• The hosts in question must be added to your organization.
• Someone else, who has the hosts in question already in their organization, must send the

reports.

Planning Your Hierarchy

Before you begin creating organizations, plan your hierarchy. Do you want the hierarchy to be

based on location, departments, hardware, software or tasks? Perhaps you want a combination of

these options.
To help you with your task, create a table of users who manage elements on the network and the

elements they must access to do their job. You might start seeing groups of users who oversee the

same or similar elements. This table may help you in assigning users to the appropriate

organizations.
Once you are done with planning your hierarchy, draw the hierarchy in an graphics illustration

program, so you can keep track of which organizations are parents and children.
Create the child organizations first, then their parents. See the topic, ”

Adding an Organization

” on

page 152 for more information.

Naming Organizations

When you create an organization, give it a name that reflects its members. For example, you might

want to use one or more of the following as a guideline:

Type of elements that are members of the organization, such as switches, Sun Solaris hosts

Location of the elements, such as San Jose

Task, such as backup machines

You may find that it is easy to forget which containers are parents and children. When you name

an organization, you might want to include a portion of the name of the dominant parent

organization. For example, assume you have two types of Web hosts in Boston: Microsoft

Windows and Sun Solaris. You might name the two children organizations

BostonWebHost_Windows and BostonWebHost_Solaris and their parent, BostonWebHosts.

Managing User Accounts

This section discusses the following topics:

Adding Users

” on page 144

Editing a User Account

” on page 145

Deleting Users

” on page 146

Modifying Your User Profile

” on page 146

Modifying Your User Preferences

” on page 147

Viewing the Properties of a Role

” on page 148

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