User Groups

User Groups are special items that can be used to form collections of user accounts. This is useful when several user accounts need to have the same security permissions—the security permissions can be allocated to the User Group instead of each individual user account (when a person logs on, they are given the permissions of the 'Everyone' User Group, the permissions of their user account, and the permissions of any User Groups of which their user account is a member). By enabling you to allocate security permissions to multiple user accounts simultaneously, User Groups significantly reduce the amount of time and effort required to set up your system security.

For more information on how User Groups affect system security, see Understanding User Groups.

The topics in this section explain how to create and configure User Groups. For more information, see the topics that are listed in the gray footer section at the bottom of this topic. Select the relevant entry to display the topic that you require.

For information about other tasks associated with User Groups, see the following sections:

• Organize your Users and User Groups
• Associate a User with a User Group
• View the Members of a User Group.
  

Once a User Group has been created, you can manage that User Group directly in ClearSCADA, or you can associate the User Group with a Microsoft Windows or LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) user group so that you can manage the User Group remotely, outside of ClearSCADA.

 

You can modify, move, rename or delete a User Group in the same way as you can alter or remove any other database item. For more information, see Organizing and Configuring Your Database in the ClearSCADA Guide to Core Configuration.