How To: Configure Organizations - Dell OpenManage Network Manager Client Manual

Deactivate—Retires a user configured on your system. You can also check users and click the
Deactivate button above the listed users. Such users are not deleted, but are in a disabled
state. You can do an Advanced search for inactive users and Activate them or permanently
delete them.
Your organization has a number of geographic locations and you plan to manage the network
infrastructure for all these locations using RC7 Synergy. You can define the geographic locations to
which devices can be associated. This will help you manage and view your network, grouped by
location or branches. See Locations on page 135 for the specifics about the portlet where you can
set up locations.
To edit your own information as a signed-in user, simply click your login name in the upper right corner of
the portal screen.
Organizations
Create Organizations just as you would create Users. You can create a Regular or Location type of
organization.
NOTE:
You must first create a Regular organization to be the parent for a Location.
How To:
Configure Organizations
Follow these steps to configure organizations. Associating organizational roles with organization
members empowers them to exercise the associated permissions within the organization's site(s).
Create a new Regular organization (Add > Regular Organization named MyCorp) as the
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parent of location organizations.
Notice that you can add much more identifying information once you have saved the basics
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(Name and Description) for the organization. This includes an Organization Site (a
checkbox) that would create a separate portal for the organization, to which you can add and
configure pages, portlets, and so on.
Create two Location organizations (Add > Location, for example Admin and Headquarters).
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Select MyCorp as the parent when you create the organization.
Create users in MyCorp. TestUserA, TestUserB, and TestUserBoss.
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