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Administrators and Users. All users are automatically included in the Everyone user group
when they are added to the DSView 3 software system. Users may be added to any of the other
user groups. The privileges that a user has to perform tasks on the DSView 3 software system
is dependent on the built-in user group to which the user is a member. See
Built-in User
Groups on page 20.
• User-defined - You may also define custom groups, based on any criteria you wish. For
example, you may want to define groups based on user administrators with read-only access,
software developers at a specific location, global network infrastructure personnel based on
job title and so on.
Built-in user groups appear in the User Groups - Built-in window and user-defined user groups
appear in the User Groups - User Defined window. The Preemption Level column will indicate the
preemption level of each user group. The windows may also display the following fields. Use the
Customize link to add or remove fields in the display: See
Using the Customize link in windows on
page 12.
• Authentication Server - Name of the authentication server assigned to the user. See
Authentication Services on page 60.
• Role - Role of a user-defined user group, which may be None, User, Auditor, Appliance
Administrator, User Administrator or DSView 3 software administrator. The role column for a
built-in user group or a user-defined user group with a role of None will be empty.
• Type - Type of user group, which will be built-in or user-defined.
To display user groups:
1. Click the Users tab.
2. Click Groups in the top navigation bar. Built-In will automatically be selected in the side
navigation bar and the User Groups - Built-in window will open. To display the user-defined
groups, click
User-Defined in the side navigation bar. The User Groups - User Defined
window will open.
Group naming in external authentication services
Groups in Active Directory (AD) external authentication services are specified using a combination
of their Active Directory folder and group name, minus the group container specified in the
DSView 3 software.
The group container defaults to the AD domain root if it is unspecified.
For example, if you have an AD external authentication service for the “sw.eng.mydomain.com”
domain with no group container specified, The “Domain Users” group in the
“sw.eng.mydomain.com/Users” folder will have a DSView 3 software equivalent of “Users/
Domain Users”.
Using the same example, but with a group container of “Users”, the DSView 3 software equivalent
is “Domain Users”.
Using the same example, but with a group container of “mydomain.com”, the DSView 3 software
equivalent is “eng/sw/Users/Domain Users”.