HP Storage Essentials V5.1 User Guide First Edition (T4283-96026, August 2006)

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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