Adding user groups

You can create user groups to better manage the access of your users to particular system resources.

Before you begin

You must be assigned the Security administration role with permission to Manage security (Full permission) and Allow delegation when Full permission is selected role to perform these steps.

About this task

To quickly assign console resources to a collection of users, you can add user groups to the system. User groups are empty when they are first created. You must manually add members to each new user group.

You can use the console, the command line interface, or the REST API to complete this task. For the command line and REST API information, see the Related information section.

Procedure

  1. Click Security and access > User Groups.
  2. Click the New icon in the toolbar to create a user group.
  3. Enter a name in the Group name field.
    The value for this field can be up to 64 characters in length and cannot be blank.

  4. Enter any additional information in the Description field.
  5. Select the Account type from the menu.
    You can select Local or LDAP.
  6. Click OK.

What to do next

You must add members to the user group that you created.