•Cannot include special characters, except spaces and the following characters: $, -, ., and

_

•Cannot contain the carot (^) symbol.

5.To change the description of the organization, enter a new description in the Description box. You cannot enter more than 1024 characters in the Description box.

6.Click Add or Remove Members.

7.Add or remove elements as described in ”Adding an Organization” on page 363 and ”Removing Members from an Organization” on page 366.

8.Once you are done adding or removing elements, click OK in the Add Organization or Remove Organization page.

9.In the Edit Organization page, click OK.

Removing an Organization

When an organization is removed, users assigned only to that organization are no longer able to access its elements. For example, assume you belong to two organizations, onlyHosts and onlySwitchesandHosts. The organization onlyHosts contains only hosts, and the organization onlySwitchesandHosts contains only switches and hosts. If you delete the onlySwitchesandHosts organization, you will still have access to hosts because you still belong to the onlyHosts organization.

Keep in mind the following:

•You cannot remove the Everything organization, which is the default organization.

•Only users belonging to the Domain Administrator role can delete organizations.

•You cannot delete an organization that contains a user who belongs to no other organizations. For example, assume you create an organization named Org1 that contains two users: User1 and User2. User1 belongs to two other organizations, while User2 only belongs to the organization you just created. You will not be able to delete Org1 because the organization contains User2, who only belongs to the organization you are trying to delete.

To delete an organization:

1.Click Security > Organizations.

2.Click the Delete ()button corresponding to the organization you want to remove. The software removes the organization.

Removing Members from an Organization

When you remove an element from an organization, users belonging to that organization or to one of its parents can no longer access that element if it is not a member of any other organization. For example, assume an element named MyHost was not only a member of BostonWebHost_Solaris, but also had mistakenly became a member of BostonWebHost_Windows. If you remove MyHost from BostonWebHost_Solaris, users belonging to BostonWebHost_Solaris can no longer access the element. Users belonging to the BostonWebHost_Windows organization or to its parent would still see the element.

Use one of the following methods to remove an element from an organization:

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