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

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report. This is also true when you email reports. If you do not have permission to access hosts,
the reports you e-mail, including the host-specific reports, will not contain information about
hosts. 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? Or 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 a graphics illustration
program, so you can keep track of which organizations are parents and children.
Create the child organizations first, then their parents. See ”Adding an Organization” on page 151
for more information.
Naming Organizations
When you create an organization, give it a name that reflects its members. 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 which are children. When
you name an organization, you might want to include a portion of the name of the dominant parent
organization. For example, if 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 contains the following topics:
• Adding Users, page 144
• Editing a User Account, page 145
• Deleting Users, page 146
• Modifying Your User Profile, page 146
• Modifying Your User Preferences, page 147
• Viewing the Properties of a Role, page 147