Tutorial: Comparing storage usage in each department
In this tutorial, you compare the storage usage in each department within your organization to spot a potential storage usage issue.
About this task
You want to monitor the capacity and space usage of departments in an organization that sells books.
The
sales department of the organization, Book Sales, has these subdepartments:
- Wholesale
- Retail
- Online
Although you can add applications and application subcomponents when you create departments, it is easier and quicker to create the applications and application subcomponents beforehand.
You want to know
the total amount of storage space that the Book Sales department uses, and you want to know the
amount of space that each subdepartment uses. To know how much space the Book Sales and its
subdepartments use, you must associate the department and its subdepartments with the applications
that they use. For example, the Book Sales department and its subdepartments use a database
application named Book Sales DB. The Book Sales DB application contains these subcomponents:
- Wholesale Transactions
- Retail Transactions
- Online Transactions
Procedure
To create the department and subdepartments, you complete these tasks:
- You create the Wholesale department and add the applications and application subcomponents that the subdepartment uses.
- You create the Retail department and add the applications and application subcomponents that the subdepartment uses.
- You create the Online department and add the applications and application subcomponents that the subdepartment uses.
- You create the Book Sales department. You do not have to add applications or subcomponents to the Book Sales department because the Book Sales department inherits the applications and application subcomponents that are added to the subdepartments.
- You add the Wholesale, Retail, and Online departments as subdepartments to the Book Sales department.