Creating a department hierarchy

In these scenarios, you want to create a department hierarchy and associate applications with the department hierarchy to monitor the capacity and space usage of the department. You can also monitor the performance of the storage resources that are associated with the applications that you add to the department hierarchy.

About this task

You want to monitor the capacity and space usage of departments in an organization that sells books. You also want to monitor the performance of the storage resources that are associated with the applications or application subcomponents that you add to the departments.

The department hierarchy showing the Book Sales department with its associated subdepartments: Wholesale, Retail, and Online
The sales department of the organization, Book Sales, has three 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.

The department and subdepartments that are mapped to the application and subcomponents that the subdepartments use.

When you create the department hierarchy and add the applications and subcomponents, you can view the information that is collected on the Departments page and the Subdepartments page.