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

Managing Security152
Managing Organizations
This section discusses the following topics:
• ”Adding an Organization” on page 152
• ”Viewing Organizations” on page 153
• ”Editing Organizations” on page 154
• ”Deleting an Organization” on page 154
• ”Removing Members from an Organization” on page 155
• ”Filtering Organizations” on page 156
Adding an Organization
You can create new organizations to restrict access to certain elements. For example, assume 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 would only be able to access the elements you specified.
See the topic, ”About the 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.
• Event Manager displays events from all elements regardless of the user’s organization.
• 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.
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, select Security > Roles.
3. Click the New Organizations button.
4. In the Name field, type 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 carot (^) symbol—currently the system allows the carot symbol to be
entered, but the carot symbol should not be included in an organization’s name.
5. In the Description field, type a description for the organization.