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User Groups

In Virtana Platform, the User Groups option is accessed from the Users Management tab in the Settings on the title bar.

You must have administrator privileges to access any of the functionality under Settings.

From this tab, you can do the following:

  • View a list of existing user groups

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    The User Groups page displays a searchable list of all groups in the organization. The table includes:

    Column name

    Description

    Name

    User group name. System‑defined groups are marked with a System label.

    Description

    Brief description of the group’s purpose.

    Role

    The role assigned to members of this group includes Administrator, MSP Administrator, Reader, and Data Ingester. For more information, see User Roles in Virtana Platform.

    Assigned Data Access Groups

    One or more data access groups that control which resources members of this user group can see. For more information, see Data Access Groups.

    Last Updated By

    The user who most recently modified the group.

    Last Updated On

    The date and time when the group was last updated. You can sort on this column.

    Actions

    A menu that lets you edit or delete the custom user group.

  • Create new User Groups.

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    1. On the User Groups page, click Create User Group.

    2. In the Create User Group dialog, enter the following:

      Field name

      Description

      User Group Name

      A unique name for the group.

      Description

      A short description to identify the group’s usage.

      Role

      Select the role to apply to all users in this group.

      Data Access Groups

      Select one or more data access groups. These define the resources, such as Infrastructure Observability appliances or Container Observability clusters, that users in this group can access.

    3. Turn on the toggle to Enable Dynamic SSO Mapping to configure SSO‑based mapping for this user group, so that identity provider membership directly controls Virtana roles and data access.

    4. Click Save to create the group, or Cancel to discard your changes.

  • Edit/delete a user group.

    To edit/delete a user group, click the Actions menu for the group and select edit/delete. You can change the description, role, data access groups, and SSO mapping settings if you are editing the group.

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    Note

    You can delete most user groups, except for the following default system groups that come with the application out of the box:

    • MSP Administrators

    • Administrators

    • Readers

    • Data Ingesters