Most customers want to manage their organizational views, respective organizational groups and the membership for these views and groups from the top level (parent) Notification Server. This document is an attempt to explain the process of how to do this.
The challenge with configuring your notification servers to perform this process lies in the requirement that resources (computers in this case) only replicate in one direction, either up or down but not both.
Doing so will put the NSs in a state where the clients are ping ponging back and forth between the parent and child NS which will cause issues with built in hierarchy processes and object ownership.
Computers by default are configured to replicate up. Client computers communicate with their respective client facing child notification server and these computer resources and inventory data by default are configured to replicate up to the parent NS. What we don’t want to happen is for these computer resources to be replicated back down.
The managing of computers in their various organizational groups is called scoping. A computer’s “scope membership” is the list of organizational groups that it is located in.
A computer, by default, is a member of the “Computers” organizational group in the “Default” view.. The Computer group can be found under Manage – Organizational Views and Groups – Default – All Resources – Asset – Network Resource – Computer. Computers will always be in this “Computer” group or in its sub “Virtual Machine” Group if it is a virtual machine.
Computers may also be in any other configured organizational view’s groups. A computer can be in only one group under each organizational view however.
There are two different methods of configuring organizational structures. One is by importing the structure via Active Directory. The second is by manually configuring the organizational structure by creating a custom organizational view and its custom organizational groups. Scope Membership is handled differently in each of these processes.
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