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Chapter 6	Creating a New Group
Managing Users & Groups

Group Notices

Administrators may need to notify Aurorean clients of Group-wide news - an upcoming change in policy or a departmental bulletin, for example - and this service is supported by the Group Notice tool. A Group Notice can total 256 characters and can be written for all the clients in a particular group or all members of all groups.

Clients will read the notice in a pop-up Message of the Day box (visible for 30 seconds) upon connecting and the same text will display in their Prescriber pullout as well as their Prescriber log if it is enabled. The notice remains in the Group Notice window until its expiration date. For directions on configuring Group Notices, refer to “Setting Up Group Notices” on page 152.

Creating a New Group

When you first log into RiverMaster, you will observe that one group already exists in the Aurorean Policy Server database: Admin, which is the only group that has administrative privileges to log into RiverMaster. This group contains the default login user account (netadmin). For administration security, Enterasys Networks recommends that you add a new login account to the Admin group and then remove the Enterasys user account.

CAUTION

Do not remove the Admin group from the APS database. To log into RiverMaster, you must enter the user name and password of a member of that group. If you remove the group, you will be unable to use RiverMaster in the future.

To create a new group, perform the following steps:

1Open the Manage Users and Groups pullout.

When you open this pullout, the Group view is automatically displayed as shown in Figure 68.

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