About Organizations

IMPORTANT: Organizations only apply to elements in HP Storage Essentials. For example, a user assigned to an organization containing only hosts will only be able to view hosts in Storage Essentials; however, that user may be able to view all other elements in HP Systems Insight Manager.

You can use organizations to specify which elements users can access. For example, you can specify that some users have only access to certain switches and hosts. However, these users must already be assigned to roles that allow them to see switches and hosts.

Users assigned to an organization can see only the elements that belong to that organization. If users are assigned to more than one organization, they see all elements that belong to the organizations to which they are assigned. For example, assume you created two organizations: one called OnlyHosts that allowed access to only hosts and another called OnlySwitches that allowed access to only switches. A user assigned to OnlyHosts and OnlySwitches would have access to hosts and switches because those elements are listed in at least one of the organizations.

Organizations can also contain other organizations. An organization contained within another is called a child. The organization containing a child organization is called a parent. The figure below shows a parent-child hierarchy in which BostonWebHosts organization contains two child organizations, BostonWebHost_Windows and BostonWebHost_Solaris. BostonWebHosts is a parent because it contains two organizations.

Figure 22 Parent-Child Hierarchy for Organizations

If a child contains organizations, it is also a parent. For example, if you add two organizations called BostonWebMarketing and BostonWebProduction to BostonWebHost_Windows. BostonWebHost_Windows would become a parent because it now contains two organizations. It would also be a child because it is contained in BostonWebHosts.

Parent organizations allow access to all elements listed in their child organizations. For example, users assigned to the organization BostonWebHosts can access not only the elements in BostonWebHost_Windows, but also those in BostonWebHost_Solaris. This is because BostonWebHosts is a parent of the two child organizations.

The parent-child hierarchy for organizations saves you time when you add new elements; for example, when you add a new element, you need to add it only once; the change ripples through the hierarchy. For example, if you add an element to BostonWebHost_Windows, not only users assigned to BostonWebHost_Windows would see this addition, but also users assigned to any of

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