Nested Groups

Nested groups are groups that are members of other groups (parent groups). You use nested groups to facilitate provisioning. Group members inherit the roles assigned to the parent group. You can create nested groups in Native Directory using groups from any configured user directory. Using very complex nested groups is not recommended. The illustrated concept:

In addition to the roles assigned directly to it, each component group (for example, Group2) inherits all the roles assigned to the parent group (Role8 and Role9 in the illustration). For example, the role assignment of Group1 in the illustration is Role1, Role8, and Role9. The parent group does not inherit the roles assigned to member groups.