Organizing Network Resources

To organize the administrative view of your network, you create containers, which include Country, Organization, and Organizational Unit objects. For guidelines on designing this view, see the table of contents.

You can also create Alias objects to provide access to the same object from several containers, and Computer objects to track extraneous network hardware.

To Create a Country Object

1. Right-click the root object in the tree, and then choose Create.

2. In Class of New Object, choose Country, and then choose OK.

3. In Country Name, type a name for the new object.

   Make sure you follow the Country naming conventions.

4. Choose Create.

To Create an Organization Object

1. Right-click the Root or Country object where you want to create the Organization, and then choose Create.

2. In Class of new object, choose Organization, and then choose OK.

3. In Organization Name, type a name for the new object.

   Make sure you follow standard object naming conventions.

4. Choose Create.

To Create an Organizational Unit Object

1. Right-click the Organization where you want to create the Organizational Unit, and then choose Create.

2. In Class of new object, choose Organizational Unit, and then choose OK.

3. In Organizational Unit Name, type a name for the new object.

   Make sure you follow standard object naming conventions.

4. Choose Create.

To Create a Locality Object

1. Right-click the container where you want to create the Locality, and then choose Create.

2. Define how the Locality object is to be identified in its typeful name by clicking Locality (which appears as .L) or State or Province (which appears as .S).

3. Type a name for the new Locality object.

   Make sure you follow standard object naming conventions.

4. Choose Create.

To Create an Alias Object

1. Right-click the container where you want to create the alias, and then choose Create.

2. In Class of New Object, choose Alias, and then choose OK.

3. In Alias name, type a name for the new object.

   Make sure you follow standard object naming conventions.

4. Fill in Aliased object.

5. Choose Create.

To Create a Computer Object

1. Right-click the container where you want to create the Computer, and then choose Create.

2. In Class of New Object, choose Computer, and then choose OK.

3. In Computer name, type a name for the new object.

   Make sure you follow standard object naming conventions.

4. Choose Create.