Managing the logical network
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•
Domains
– to display the structure of the computer network as
a hierarchy of folders that reflects the structure of domains and
workgroups of the Windows corporate network. Each of the
lowest level folders contains a list of computers of the respec-
tive domain or workgroup which are not included in the structure
of the logical network.
•
Active Directory
- to display the network hierarchy that corre-
sponds to the Active Directory structure.
•
IP subnetworks
– to display the computer network as IP sub-
networks.
2.3.3. Creating an IP subnetwork
To create a new IP subnetwork
1. Select the
Network
node in the console tree, and either open the
shortcut menu and select the
New/IP subnetwork
command, or use
the corresponding item from the
Action
menu.
The
New/IP subnetwork
command is available only when
displaying the
Network
folder as IP subnetworks.
2. In the
New IP subnetwork
window that will open (see Figure 6)
specify values for the following settings:
•
the name of the subnetwork;
•
how the subnetwork will be described, and values appropriate
for the method selected. Select one of these options:
o
Specify the IP subnetwork using address and the sub-
network mask
; in this case you must specify the
Subnet-
work mask
and
Subnetwork address
in the correspond-
ing entry fields.
o
Specify IP subnetwork using the start and the end IP
address
; after this, enter the start and the end IP ad-
dresses.
•
a time interval after which information about an inactive com-
puter will be deleted from the Administration Server database,
in the
IP address lifetime (hours)
field.
