Administering group information

You can manage information that is associated with a group by using the administration API.

When a group is created in the user registry, you can set and get different pieces of information about the group. You must create a security context between the calling application and the Verify Identity Access policy server before you can access the user registry. You can obtain the user registry information for a group object by specifying either the Verify Identity Access group name or the user registry group name.

Table 1 lists the group information administration functions.

Table 1. Administering group attributes

Method	Description
PDGroup constructor	Instantiates a group object for the specified Verify Identity Access or user registry name.
PDGroup object.getDescription	Returns the group description.
PDGroup object.getRgyName	Returns the user registry name for the group.
PDGroup object.getId	Returns the Verify Identity Access name for the group.
PDGroup object.isPDGroup	Returns an indicator whether the object is a Verify Identity Access group.
PDGroup.setDescription PDGroup object.setDescription	Sets a group description.
PDGroup object.getMembers	Lists the members of a group.
PDGroup.addMembers PDGroup object.addMembers	Adds users to a group.
PDGroup.removeMembers PDGroup object.removeMembers	Removes users from a group.

For detailed reference information about these methods, see the Javadoc HTML documentation.