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Creating a User Account Group
You create a user account group to make it easier to manage users who require the same software permissions and workspaces.
A user account group can comprise both user accounts and other user account groups with similar interests. By using a well planned strategy for your user account groups, you apply software permissions and polices to multiple user accounts.
For optimal efficiency, assign software permissions to user account groups rather than individual user accounts, wherever possible. Using this approach, you can associate user accounts to at least one user account group for controlled permission to Building Operation applications. For instance, you can group software permissions with user accounts based on common tasks and responsibilities
You create user accounts groups and then apply one or more software permissions. For example, create a user account for Paul and associate him with the two user account groups: Administrators and Janitors. Paul inherits the software permissions of both user account groups. You can also set up general policies for the user accounts that are members to the user account group. For example, you can enable or disable the ability of group members to change their passwords or to close the User Interface. For more information, see Software Permissions .
Paul and Susan are members of the Janitor user account group, which includes an Operator workspace and a set of software permissions. The Janitor group is also a member of the Operator group. Therefore, the Janitor group inherits the settings and workspaces of the Operator group. In other words, Paul and Susan share the software permissions of both the Janitor and the Operator groups, and have access to the Operator and Janitor workspaces.
In WorkStation, on the Tools menu, click Control Panel .
On the Control Panel toolbar, select the SmartStruxure server.
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Click Account management .
In the Domain box, select the domain where you want to create the user account group.
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In the User Account Groups area, click Add .
In the Name box, type a name for the user account group.
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In the Description box, type a description for the user account group.
Click Next .
In the Select from box, select a user account group to auto select the user accounts belonging to that group in the Available User Accounts list.
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In the Available User Accounts list, select the user accounts you want to add to the user account group.
Click the Add button
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Click Next .
In the Select from box, select a user account group to auto select the workspaces assigned to that group in the Selected Workspaces list box.
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In the Available Workspaces box, select the workspaces you want to add to the user account group.
Click the Add button
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Click Next .
Select Allow members to close WorkStation if you want the users in the user account group to be able to close the WorkStation software.
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Select Log user actions of group members if you want to activate logging for the users in the user account group.
Select Allow members to change password if you want the users in the user account group to be able to change their own passwords.
Select Allow members to access AS Web Configuration if you want the users in the user account group to be able to log on to SmartStruxure server devices' Web configuration sites.
In the Automatic logoff box, select a time if you want the users in the user account group to be logged off after a defined time of inactivity. For more information, see Automatic Logoff .
Click the refresh button
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Note:To connect a Windows Active Directory user account group to a Building Operation user account group, you need to establish the connection between the Building Operation domain and Active Directory Windows domain. For more information, see Creating and Configuring a Domain .
Windows Active Directory account groups can only be mapped on SmartStruxure servers such as Enterprise Servers, which are based upon Microsoft Windows operating system. SmartStruxure server devices cannot map Windows Active Directory groups.
In the Windows group name box, select the Windows Active Directory user account group you want to map to the Building Operation user account group.
Important:You can map Windows Active Directory universal and global account groups to Building Operation user account groups, but you cannot map Windows Active Directory domain local user account groups.
Click Create .
Windows Active Directory User Groups
Creating a Workspace
Software Permissions and User Account Groups
User Accounts and User Account Groups
Workspace Management
Creating a User Account
User Account Group Wizard – Workspaces Belonging to this Group Page
User Account Group Wizard – Windows Group Name and Group Policies Page
User Account Group Wizard – Users Belonging to this Group Page
Automatic Logoff
Windows Group Name List Is Empty