How To Create User Groups

Steps

1. In the left-hand navigation menu, click user setup.

   The HTML user interface displays the User Setup page, which provides a link to the User Group page.

2. In the information area of the page, click user groups. This displays the User Groups page, which lists the user groups already defined.

3. In the top row of the table listing user groups, enter a name and a description for the new user group, and click create.

   The HTML user interface displays a User Groups Details page in which you can configure the new user group.

4. Use the fields on this page to configure the new user group. When you first define a user group, it includes no members.

   • Add an individual user to the group. In the members of group area of the page, use the pull-down menu in the user row to select the name of an individual user that you want to add to this group. When the menu is displaying the name you want, click add. The HTML user interface updates the User Group Details page, and adds the name of the user to the list of users in the current group members field.

   • Add another user group to this group. In the members of group area of the page, use the pull-down menu in the user group row to select the name of an existing user group that you want to add to this group. When the menu is displaying the name you want, click add. The HTML user interface updates the User Group Details page, and adds the names of all the users in the group you selected to the list of users in the current group members field.

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     Note –

     The current group members field will only list a user once, even if that user belongs to two or more groups that you have added to this group.

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   • Set permissions for the new user group. In the permissions of group users area of the page, use the check boxes to define the permissions you want to assign this group. Assigning write permission for an object allows users in this group to enter those objects into the repository. For example, a user with write permission for plans can check plans into the repository. A user with write permission for admin users and groups can create user accounts and define user groups, as you're doing now. You can use the check boxes and menus in the run on host set column to limit the host sets on which the users in this group can run plans and preflights and (independently) the host sets on which they can run comparisons.

5. When you have finished configuring the group, click save.

   The HTML user interface saves the configuration you defined and displays the User Groups page, which will now list the new user group.