Managing user groups

The User Groups tab allows you to add, modify, and delete user groups that can access BMC TrueSight IT Data Analytics. You can create a group containing multiple users.

User groups are useful when you want to provide access to application data only to specific user roles or users with certain attributes. You can group users with similar attributes by adding them to a common user group, and then use that group for assigning access permissions to particular application data or data emerging from particular data sources.

Access control can be provided to event data at the time of creating data collectors, depending on:

• Existing user role: These permissions determine tab-level access to the product. For more information, see User roles and permissions.
• Events particular to certain application log files: These permissions determine content-level access to the product.

The user-role permissions and data-level access permissions together determine the actions that a user can perform related to viewing, creating, modifying, or deleting data.

This topic contains the following information:

Viewing and searching user groups

The User Groups tab allows you to mange user groups. To access this tab navigate to Administration > User Groups. From here, you can perform the following actions:

Action	Icon	Description
Add User Group		Add a new user group. For more information, see Adding user groups.
Modify User Group		Edit the selected user group. You can modify the same details that you provided while adding a user group.
Delete User Group		Delete the selected user group.
Search	None	Search user groups by entering an appropriate name in the User Group Name column and see the search suggestions displayed.

The User Groups tab provides the following information:

Adding user groups

To add a user group, on the Administration > User Groups tab, click Add User Group, provide the following information, and click Create.

Related topic

Managing users