Saving groups to CSV file

This topic describes the procedure for saving the list of groups from Guardium® Data Security Center to a comma-separated values (.csv) file.

Before you begin

By default, you must be assigned the Administrator role to be able to manage groups.
Important: If you have policy rules that use groups as rule conditions, modifying the groups by adding or removing members will result in reactivation of group members.

To open the Groups page, select Configurations > Groups in the main menu. Open this menu by clicking the main menu icon (main menu).

Procedure

  1. Click Download CSV.
  2. The .csv is automatically saved to the default download folder of your file system.

Results

The resulting file will be similar to:

"Name","Description (optional)","Members","Group type","Last imported","Source","Parent"
"ALTER commands","","35","Commands","","Predefined","No"
"Admin users","","1","OS users","","Predefined","Yes"
"Admin users - default","","19","OS users","","Predefined","No"
"My commands group","My commands group description.","15","Commands","","User defined","No"
"My imported OS users group","","1","OS users","Oct 30, 2020 13:10:12","my-guardium-connection","No"

where:

  • "Name","Description (optional)","Members","Group type","Last imported","Source","Parent" are the column headers of the file. These or other column headers must be present when importing the file to Guardium Data Security Center, otherwise the import will not work.
  • "ALTER commands","","35","Commands","","Predefined","No" represents one of the Guardium Data Security Center predefined groups. The group has no description, 35 members, and its group type is Commands. It is not a parent group.
  • "Admin users","","1","OS users","","Predefined","Yes" represents a Guardium Data Security Center predefined parent group. It has one child group, "Admin users - default","","19","OS users","","Predefined","No".
  • "My commands group","My commands group description.","15","Commands","","User defined","No" is a group that has been created by a Guardium Data Security Center user. It is not synced to a Guardium central manager.
  • "My imported OS users group","","1","OS users","Oct 30, 2020 13:10:12","my-guardium-connection","No" is a group that has been imported from Guardium central manager and it is being kept in sync with the group on the Guardium system.

To learn how to import the groups you have exported to CSV, see Importing group members from a CSV file.