Security Groups: overview

A security group provides a convenient way of managing a flexible collection of members.

You can use a security group to:

Allocate system roles to a user to control the management tasks they can and cannot carry out for the network from the RM Management Console. For example, you can enable a user to change registry policies by adding the user to the Policy Managers group.
Apply settings or a registry policy to all members of the security group. For example, you can create a security group to contain 'All Users' and 'Library Computers', and give the group Internet access settings for time slots corresponding to lunchtime and after school.
Give access to a common resource. For example, you can make a program set available to a security group to give all users in the group permission to use that program set.

The RM Management Console includes a selection of security groups for you to use. You can add members to these security groups, or create your own security groups.

To view the list of security groups for your establishment, from the left-hand pane, expand Security Groups, and then choose All Groups. The list of security groups is displayed in the right-hand pane.

The naming conventions for groups in your establishment may reflect, for example, age ranges, classes, study groups, projects or types of users.

Creating a linked list provides another way to manage the members of the security group. When you link a list to a security group, the information in the list is refreshed each time you access the list. Any change to the group membership is automatically reflected in the linked list; and adding members to the list also adds them to the security group.

For further information on the Security Groups option, and all other aspects of Community Connect 4, you can search the RM Knowledge Library online.