Populating Administrative Domains

Once you have created your administrative domains, you can begin to populate these administrative domains and their subordinate groups.

To populate an administrative domain, you must have esdomadm privileges. See Sun Management Center Groups for more information.

To add hosts and other resources to an administrative domain collection, use one of these methods:

• Populate with the Discovery Manager

  The Discovery Manager is the default method for populating a newly created administrative domain. Discovery Manager searches the network for resources. The search can be time-consuming, but you can shorten the search by setting limits. See Chapter 4, Adding Objects to the Topology Database Using the Discovery Manager for more information.

• Populate with the Discovery Manager at scheduled intervals by using the Scheduling feature

  The scheduling feature enables you to search periodically for new managed objects on the network. You can set the search to occur hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly. See Making and Modifying Discover Requests for more information.

• Manually populate with the Create an Object menu option

  To add objects individually, use the Create an Object option. This option is useful for adding a small number of known resources. For example, if you have installed a new host, you can use Create an Object to add the host to the local administrative domain immediately. See Chapter 3, Manually Adding Objects to the Topology Database for more information.