Adding departments as subdepartments to departments

In this scenario, you create the subdepartments by adding the Wholesale, Retail, and Online departments as subdepartments to the Book Sales department.

About this task

The department that you add to another department becomes a subdepartment of the target department. For example, you created the following departments:
  • The Book Sales department
  • The Wholesale department
  • The Retail department
  • The Online department
You want to monitor the space usage for book sales and wholesale sales, retail sales, and online sales. So you add the Wholesale, Retail, and Online departments as subdepartments to the Book Sales department.

Procedure

  1. From the Groups menu, click Departments.
  2. Select the departments that you want to add as subdepartments.
  3. Right-click, and then click Add to Department.
  4. On the Add to Department page, select a department.
  5. Click Save.

Results

You can now view charts and information about the capacity and space usage of the department and each of the subdepartments on the Departments page and the Subdepartments page. You can also view charts and information about the performance of the storage resources that are associated with the applications or application subcomponents that the departments and subdepartments use.
Tip: In the Subdepartments column for the department on the Departments page, the name of the subdepartment is shown. If you add two or more departments to a subdepartment, the number of subdepartments is shown. To view information about the subdepartments, click the name of the subdepartment or the number.