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Organizational Units

An organizational unit (org unit) is a group of users. Org units provide security by giving users access to objects like resource pools, software groups, system images, and templates.

Consider the following information about org units:

• Users can belong to more than one org unit. They can switch to a different org unit by clicking the Member of link at the top left of the Reservation Manager window.
• Access to resources can be tailored for each org unit.
• Membership in org units can be based on the following properties of a CA EEM user. Reservation Manager administrators do not have to duplicate the CA EEM setup.
  • Global groups to which users belong
  • CA application groups to which users belong
  • Attributes like department, company, office, city, state, or country. So, all users in North American Sales Support could be members of an org unit named Sales.
• If the administrator removes a user from an org unit, that user can continue working in that org unit until one of the following situations occurs:
  • The user logs out and logs in again.
  • The user clicks the Member of link to change their org unit.
• CA EEM supports Native, Active Directory and LDAP.
• By default, all users are members of the Public org unit. Do not explicitly add users to the Public org unit. Do add resource access to the Public org unit in order to enable all CA EEM global users to make reservation requests. Public org unit privileges are in addition to specific org unit privileges.

  Important! You can disable the default Public org unit. If you disable the Public org unit, you must explicitly specify reservation privileges for each org unit.

• Use descriptive names for org units so that users can identify them easily.