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IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.3 Fix Pack 2
Manage user groups
User groups enable the administrator to authorize the same set of functional permissions, applications, and Navigator views to multiple users at one time. Management of user authorization can be done by groups as well as individually.
A user can be associated with one or more user groups. If a permission is granted to a user directly through their user ID, they maintain that permission even if a user group they belong to does not grant that permission. The reverse is also true, so that if an individual user ID is not granted a permission but the group ID is, the user will have the permission through their membership in the user group. Thus, the user's permission set is collected from what is given to the individual user ID and to any and all user groups that they belong to.
Authorization will also be by global authority and by association with managed system and managed system groups. This security is not dependent on external authorization.
When the active top tab is Users, the last tab on the bottom set of tabs reads Member Of. When the active top tab is User Groups, you will also have a Members tab. Assignment of users to groups can be done in either of these lower tabs.
Click the group in the details view at the top, then go to the Members tab to see the list of users that belong to this group. likewise, to see the groups a user belongs to.
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Use Tivoli Enterprise Portal user authorization