After you've selected the domains you want to manage this way, the software will let you know that the configuration has changed. It will also remind you to synchronize the data and configuration information so that all the servers to be managed will have the up-to-date configuration information. Synchronization allows UserManagemeNT Lite to resolve conflicts that arise due to selections made in the software interface. Next, the software will question you about servers on your network. Selecting servers on your network using UserManagemeNT Lite assists you in assigning a home server for the user accounts you create. You can assign locations for home servers on your network, which will cut down the size of the list to peruse when creating user accounts. For example, you could specify departments or offices as locations. In Figure E, I specified department names as locations and added servers to those departments. You can specify the location on the left-hand side in the New Location box. Then, on the right-hand side, you can enter a server name. When you add the server to the available servers list, you can then highlight the server name and click the Add button to add that server to the location highlighted in the Server Locations box. Keeping the location lists standardised will help you select a home server for each user account.
Figure E
You can view and add servers easily.
Like most networks, your company's network probably has many groups in use, not to mention masses of users. UserManagemeNT provides units to ease the hassle of adding users to groups and managing multiple groups. A unit is a collection of groups that users belong to, and it allows you to manage all the users that may be members of a given group. For example, you could make a unit called Information Systems, place a location of Technology building within it, and place the Information Technology department in that location. But when you add a group, you must also tie it to a domain. Then, you can create a unit containing related groups; for example, you could create a unit called Admins and then add the administrator groups from each available domain to it. When you need to add a new administrator to all the domains' administrators groups, you can simply add the user account to the unit, which will put them in all the groups within this unit. Another option is the syntax for usernames. This will automatically create a specific style of username when you enter the new user's full name. It will also allow you to specify the expiration of the account, the maximum length of the username, the username format, any separator characters used, and the case of the username.
