Dell NetWorker 19.9 Administration Guide

Organizing NetWorker servers

Use the Enterprise to organize the NetWorker servers by some logical or functional criteria.

Examples of organizational criteria include:

• By geography — For example, you can put all the hosts from the same city or country in the same folder.
• By function — For example, you can have the servers that back up web servers in one folder, and the servers that back up mail servers in another folder.
• By administrative divisions within the Enterprise — For example, you can use separate folders for servers that back up Marketing, Sales, or Engineering hosts.

You can create and maintain multiple folders to organize multiple copies of a host in the Enterprise. When you create each folder that is based on different organizational criteria, you can view the organization in different, yet parallel, and complementary ways.

Example: An enterprise that is arranged by geographic location

This figure provides an example of an Enterprise arranged by geographic location. There are three folders, one for each country that manages NetWorker servers: USA, France, and Australia. Each folder contains a number of hosts that correspond to the location of the NetWorker servers. The Australia folder, for instance, contains three host computers that are labeled perth1, perth2, and sydney.