About group access rights and users' home groups

Users are given Group Read rights for their Home group by default. If Group Read rights are removed from a user's home group, the user cannot access the Device List until the Group Read right is restored or the user's Home group is changed to a group for which the user has Group Read rights.

Note: Changing a user's Home group does not change the user's Group Access rights for original Home group. Be careful to prevent unintentionally granting access to a device group to which you do not want a user to have access.

For example, an administrator creates a new user account and leaves the Home group as the default My Network. The new user account automatically receives Group Read rights to My Network. At a later date, the administrator changes the user account to use a subgroup as the user's Home group. Unless the administrator deliberately removes the Group Read right from My Network, the user continues to have Group Read rights to My Network, potentially granting the user more visibility into WhatsUp Gold than the administrator intended. Changing the user's Home group is not enough to restrict what he or she can see in WhatsUp Gold.

See Also

About device group access rights

Enabling device group access rights

Assigning group access rights

Propagating group access rights to subgroups

Determining the highest right

Understanding device group access rights and user access rights

About group access rights and dynamic device groups