Sonatype CLM Server - Policy Management Guide

When you launch Sonatype CLM for the first time, even after setting up and configuring your security parameters, there will be little to no information, a blank slate if you will.

Now, you could go off and simply start creating organizations and applications. It’s a fairly simple process. However, it would be wiser to think about how your particular business organizes applications. For many teams this follows a "command and control" structure, or rather one where various business units are responsible for specific applications. For others, applications create more logical categories, such as internal, or perhaps, commercial units, each having sets of applications below them.

In both cases there are units which simply contain applications, and there is some correlation between each application, even if it is only surface level. This idea of containers and correlation is the exact principle behind organizations.

Organizations, when looking simply at their most basic function, serve as a container for applications. While we cover how organizations manage policy and the other policy elements in just a moment, it’s important to think about how you will set up your organizations. Perhaps, even create a map, or at the very least, visual containers and recording which applications would go where.

Once you’ve done that, let’s create an organization.