Creating departments

To model the storage capacity that is consumed in a department for your business environment, in accordance with other department and application members, create departments for monitoring in IBM Spectrum Control.

To create a department, complete these steps:

1. In the menu bar, go to Groups > Departments.
2. On the Departments page, click Create Department.
3. On the Create Department page, enter information about the department.
   You cannot have a duplicate department name on the same level in your department hierarchy. For example, you create a department named Finance and create a subdepartment named Business. You can create another department named Business as a top level department, but if you want to make your new Business department a subdepartment of the Finance department, you see a message that indicates there is already a department named Business that is a member of the Finance department; your department creation is denied.

   You can customize the icon for your department by clicking the existing icon on the Create Department page and selecting another icon from the Customize Icon page.

4. Click Create and then Close.
5. Optional: On the Add Members page, click Add one or more applications .
   1. On the populate page, select the applications that to add to your department.
      If you do not want to add any of the applications that are listed, click Create Application to create a new application to add to the department.
   2. Click Finish.
6. Optional: On the Add Members page, click Create subdepartment .
   1. On the Create Subdepartment page, enter your information.
   2. Click Create.