Creating user groups

As a platform administrator, create user groups and add users to the groups. Membership of a group gives a user access to the features that are assigned to that group.

Before you begin

  • To manage users, user groups, and roles in the User Management view, your system must be configured to work with a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) user registry. For more information, see Configuring an LDAP user registry.
  • If your LDAP server is IBM® Security Directory Server, you must also configure an appropriate size for the group members cache. For more information, see Configuring cache size for user groups and roles.
  • Only user groups and roles that are created in the User Management view are IBM Intelligent Operations Center user groups and roles. If you have existing LDAP user groups that you want to manage as IBM Intelligent Operations Center user groups, create corresponding user groups in the User Management view.
  • To configure whether a default member is added to a new user group, edit the LdapUserGroupDefaultUser system property. For more information, see Configuring a default member for new user groups.

About this task

Create a user group and add one or more users to the group.

Procedure

  1. From the Administration or Solution Administration navigation menu, click Platform Administration > User Management.
  2. Click Manage Groups. The existing user groups are displayed. To filter the list of groups, enter a full or partial group name in the filter.

Creating a user group

  1. Click Create. The Create a Group window opens.
  2. Enter a unique name for the new group in the Group name field. After the user group is created, the name cannot be changed.
  3. Click Save.

Adding users to the user group

  1. Click Users in the entry for the user group in the table.
  2. To add users to the user group, select one or more users in the Available users list and click the arrow button to move them to the Assigned users list. To filter the list of users in either list, enter a full or partial user name in the filter for that list.
  3. To remove users from the user group, select one or more users in the Assigned users list and click the arrow button to move them to the Available users list.
  4. Click Save.

What to do next

You can give access privileges for specific features to a user group. You can also map a user group to one or more roles so that all the users in the group have access to the same features as these roles. For more information, see the related links.