HP Storage Essentials SRM 6.0 User Guide for Enterprise Edition and Standard Edition SRM Software (July 2008)

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• Removing Members from an Organization, page 154
• Filtering Organizations, page 154
Adding an Organization
You can create new organizations to restrict access to certain elements. For example, if you do not
want the help desk to have access to elements belonging to a certain group, you could create an
organization that does not allow access to those elements. Once you assign users to that
organization, they will only be able to access the elements you specified.
See ”About Security for the Management Server” on page 137 for more information about roles
and organizations.
Keep in mind the following:
• Create child organizations first, then their parents.
• Events from all elements regardless of the user’s organization are displayed by Event Manager.
• Only users belonging to the Domain Administrator role can add organizations.
• Only active organizations can be edited.
• All discovered elements are accessible in Business Tools, regardless of a user's restrictions. For
example, assume your account belongs to an organization that has only hosts as members. If
you run the business tool Switch Risk Analysis, the management server still provides information
about whether the switches are a risk in your environment.
• Moving a cluster from one organization to another moves all of the cluster’s nodes to the target
organization.
To add an organization:
1. Access Storage Essentials through one of the menu options, such as Options > Storage Essentials
> Email Settings.
2. In the upper-right corner, click Security > Roles.
3. Click the New Organizations button.
4. In the Name box, enter a name for the organization.
The name of an organization has the following requirements:
• Can contain spaces.
• Can add digits to the beginning of an organization’s name.
• Cannot be longer than 256 characters.
• Cannot contain the caret (^) symbol—currently the system allows the caret symbol to be
entered, but the caret symbol should not be included in an organization’s name.
5. In the Description box, enter a description for the organization.
The Description box cannot have more than 1024 characters.
6. Click Add or Remove Members to determine which elements the user will see.
7. To add elements:
a. Expand the Element Types node in the tree, and select the element type that you would like to
add.