1. A method comprising: creating an enterprise policy object providing an enterprise-wide policy governing at least one of resource access and protocol use for a plurality of nodes within a networking environment organized within a plurality of arrays; creating at least one array policy object, each array policy object providing an array-wide policy governing resource access for one or more of the plurality of nodes organized within a corresponding array; and, for each of one or more of the at least one array policy object, inheriting the enterprise-wide policy as the array-wide policy such that the array-wide policy of each array policy object is at least initially set to the enterprise-wide policy.