Cloud groups can be assigned directly or indirectly to a user account. Indirect assignment is carried out by allocating the employee and groups in hierarchical roles, such as departments, cost centers, locations, or business roles. If the employee has a cloud user account, cloud groups in the hierarchical roles are inherited by this user account.
To assign groups directly to user accounts
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In the Manager, select the Cloud Target Systems > target system > User accounts category.
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Select the user account in the result list.
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Select the Assign groups task.
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In the Add assignments pane, assign the groups.
TIP: In the Remove assignments pane, you can remove the assignment of groups.
To remove an assignment
- Save the changes.
NOTE: The primary group of a user account is already assigned and is marked as Does not apply yet. Edit the user account's main data to change its primary group.
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To react quickly to special requests, you can assign system entitlements directly to a user account. You cannot directly assign system entitlements that have the Only use in IT Shop option set.
To assign system entitlements directly to a user account
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In the Manager, select the Cloud Target Systems > target system > User accounts category.
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Select the user account in the result list.
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Select the Assign cloud groups and system entitlements task.
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Select the Cloud system entitlements 1 tab.
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Select the Cloud system entitlements 2 tab.
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Select the Cloud system entitlements 3 tab.
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In the Add assignments pane, assign the system entitlements.
TIP: In the Remove assignments pane, you can remove system entitlement assignments.
To remove an assignment
- Save the changes.
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When groups are assigned to user accounts an employee may obtain two or more groups, which are not permitted in this combination. To prevent this, you can declare mutually exclusive groups. To do this, you specify which of the two groups should apply to the user accounts if both are assigned.
It is possible to assign an excluded group at any time either directly, indirectly, or with an IT Shop request. One Identity Manager determines whether the assignment is effective.
NOTE:
- You cannot define a pair of mutually exclusive groups. That means, the definition "Group A excludes group B" AND "Group B excludes groups A" is not permitted.
- You must declare each group to be excluded from a group separately. Exclusion definitions cannot be inherited.
- One Identity Manager does not check if membership of an excluded group is permitted in another group (CSMGroupInGroup table).
The effectiveness of the assignments is mapped in the CSMUserInGroup/CSMUserHasGroup and CSMBaseTreeHasGroup tables by the XIsInEffect column.
Example: The effect of group memberships
- Group A is assigned through the "Marketing" department, group B through "Finance", and group C through the "Control group" business role.
Clara Harris has a user account in this target system. She primarily belongs to the "Marketing" department. The "Control group" business role and the "Finance" department are assigned to her secondarily. Without an exclusion definition, the user account obtains all the permissions of groups A, B, and C.
By using suitable controls, you want to prevent an employee from being able to trigger a request and to pay invoices. That means, groups A, B, and C are mutually exclusive. An employee that checks invoices may not be able to make invoice payments as well. That means, groups B and C are mutually exclusive.
Table 19: Specifying excluded groups (CSMGroupExclusion table)
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Group A |
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Group B |
Group A |
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Group C |
Group B |
Table 20: Effective assignments
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Ben King |
Marketing |
Group A |
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Jan Bloggs |
Marketing, finance |
Group B |
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Clara Harris |
Marketing, finance, control group |
Group C |
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Jenny Basset |
Marketing, control group |
Group A, Group C |
Only the group C assignment is in effect for Clara Harris. It is published in the target system. If Clara Harris leaves the "control group" business role at a later date, group B also takes effect.
The groups A and C are in effect for Jenny Basset because the groups are not defined as mutually exclusive. That means that the employee is authorized to trigger requests and to check invoices. If this should not be allowed, define further exclusion for group C.
Table 21: Excluded groups and effective assignments
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Jenny Basset
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Marketing |
Group A |
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Group C
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Control group |
Group C |
Group B
Group A |
Prerequisites
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The QER | Structures | Inherite | GroupExclusion configuration parameter is set.
In the Designer, set the configuration parameter and compile the database.
NOTE: If you disable the configuration parameter at a later date, model components and scripts that are not longer required, are disabled. SQL procedures and triggers are still carried out. For more information about the behavior of preprocessor relevant configuration parameters and conditional compiling, see the One Identity Manager Configuration Guide.
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Mutually exclusive groups belong to the same cloud target system.
To exclude a group
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In the Manager, select the Cloud Target Systems > <target system> > Groups category.
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Select a group in the result list.
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Select the Exclude groups task.
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In the Add assignments pane, assign the groups that are mutually exclusive to the selected group.
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In the Remove assignments pane, remove the groups that are no longer mutually exclusive.
- Save the changes.
In One Identity Manager, user accounts can selectively inherit groups. To do this, groups and user accounts are divided into categories. The categories can be freely selected and are specified using a mapping rule. Each category is given a specific position within the template. The mapping rule contains different tables. Use the user account table to specify categories for target system dependent user accounts. In the group table, enter your categories for the target system-dependent groups. Each table contains the category positions position 1 to position 63.
Every user account can be assigned to one or more categories. Each group can also be assigned to one or more categories. The group is inherited by the user account when at least one user account category items matches an assigned group. The group is also inherited by the user account if the group or the user account is not put into categories.
NOTE: Inheritance through categories is only taken into account when groups are assigned indirectly through hierarchical roles. Categories are not taken into account when groups are directly assigned to user accounts.
Table 22: Category examples
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Default user |
Default permissions |
| 2 |
System users |
System user permissions |
| 3 |
System administrator |
System administrator permissions |
Figure 3: Example of inheriting through categories.
To use inheritance through categories
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In the Manager, define the categories in the cloud target system.
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Assign categories to user accounts through their main data.
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Assign categories to groups through their main data.
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