About Groups Group Types

Managing Groups 12-5 Figure 12–2 Groups Search page

12.6 Searching for a Group

When the Groups Search page first appears, the Search Results table is empty. You must press Search to see a list of groups in the Oracle Adaptive Access Manager environment. In the Groups Search page, you can search for a specific group you are interested in by using the specific criteria in the search filter. To search for a group:

1. Navigate to the Groups Search page, as described in

Section 12.5, Navigating to the Groups Search Page.

2. Specify criteria to locate the group and click Search.

Clicking Reset instead of Search resets the search criteria. Search parameter values are not required. If you choose to leave the fields blank, all groups are displayed in your search results. 12-6 Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrators Guide for Oracle Adaptive Access Manager The search filters are described in Table 12–2 . The groups that are displayed are those that match the criteria specified in the Group Name , Group Type, and Cache Policy fields. The option to sort is provided on every column in the Search Results table. Each group has a name. If the description is too long to be fully shown, you can place the mouse over the text to see the entire description. In the Search Results table, click the hyperlinked group name of the group you are interested in to view more details.

12.7 Viewing Details about a Group

The Group Details tab has summary, member, and usage tabs. To view details about a group:

1. Navigate to the Groups Search page, as described in

Section 12.5, Navigating to the Groups Search Page.

2. Enter the name of the group in the Group Name field and click Search.

3. Click the group name to view the Group Details page for that group.

The Summary tab shows general information about the group, such as the name, type, cache policy, and description of the group. 4. From the members tab, you can add members to the group or select members of the group to remove. The members tab is labeled with the data type the group contains. For example, a User ID group has a member tab labeled User ID. The members tab shows all the members of the group. The members tab typically shows member name ID, description, and any other critical attributes of members. The exact information differs depending on the group type. Table 12–2 Groups Search Filter Criteria Filters and Fields Descriptions Group Name Name of the group. You can enter the complete name or part of a group name. For example, if you enter new, any group with new in any part of its name is displayed. Cache Policy Groups offer two Cache Policy options: Full Cache or None. The Full Cache option caches group contents in server memory for the lifetime of the server. Static lookup groups and read-only groups are good candidates for the Full Cache option. Administrators must be careful using this option as it uses server memory. A long list of elements can have an adverse affect since groups are re-cached if there are changes to the list. The None Cache Policy option does not use cache and consults the database every time. Device group types are set to None because in most cases, they are dynamic and manipulated while the server is running. If you have groups that stay static for the lifetime of the server, you can use the Full Cache option instead of None. Group Type Category to which the group belongs. The types are listed in Table 12–1 Note: You cannot change the group type in the Group Details page. Managing Groups 12-7 5. From the Usage tab, you can view all the different locations a group is used conditions, overrides, configurable actions and so on in a hierarchical fashion. If the group is not used, you are not able to access the tab. You can view the details of any node in the usage tree. For example, when you click Rule A above Precondition xyz, the right hand side panel shows brief details about Rule A and you can view additional details, if needed. 6. To view details about the entity that the group is used in, click its link. Clicking the link launches the details page of that particular item in a new tab.

12.8 Adding an Entity to a Group

You could add an entity to a group or create a group and add the entity to it, or remove an entity from a group, using the Add to Group button from details pages. The Add to Group feature is described below:

12.9 Group Characteristics

The following table shows a summary of group characteristics. The Group column shows the type of groups available in the system. The Group Member Type column shows whether the record is a primitive type long, string, and integer or a structured type. An example of a structured type is Actions, which has name, ID, and message The Cache column shows the cache option that is recommended for the group. The Create column shows whether the group can be created using the user interface for groups. The Edit column shows whether the group can be edited using the user interface for groups. Note: ·You cannot edit existing Action elements and their properties. Table 12–3 Add to Group Feature Description Add entity to entity group You can select an entity group from a list of entity groups with which the entity is not already associated and add the entity to it. A User Group can be either a User ID or User Name group type. An entity cannot be added to the same entity group multiple times with the exception of the alert. An alert can be added to an Alert Group multiple times, since whenever an alert is added to an Alert Group, a new instance of the existing alert is created and added to the group. Create a new entity group and add entity to the newly created group. You can create a new entity group and add the entity to it. A user group can be of either User ID or User Name group type. Remove entity from entity group You can select multiple entity groups with which it is already associated and remove the entity from the selected groups. Note: Removing users from Organization ID is not recommended.