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Manage User Groups

Cortex XDR enables you to manage user groups in the Access Management console.

In the

User Groups

page, you can manage user groups for a specific tenant.

At the top of the page, you can perform the following actions.

Import a single existing group from Active Directory that you want to manage in Cortex XDR.

This feature is only available if you enabled the Cloud Identity Engine in

Configurations

Integrations

Cloud Identity Engine

Create a new user group for a number of different system users or groups.

The

User Groups

table provides the following fields of information.

Group Name

—Name of the user group.

Description

—Description of the user group.

Role

—Lists the group role associated with this user group. You can only have a single role designated per group.

Users

—Lists all the users belonging to this user group.

Nested Groups

—Lists any nested groups associated with this user group.

Insert Time

—Date and time when the user group was added.

Update Time

—Date and time of when the user group was last updated.

Source

—Displays the source of the user group as either a user group imported from

Active Directory

or a

Custom

user group created in Cortex XDR.

You can also pivot (right-click) from rows and specific values in the table, where a number of different options are available to help you manage your Cortex XDR user groups from this page.

Save an existing group as a new group.

Edit a group.

Remove a group.

Copy text to clipboard.

Copy entire row.

Select

Settings

Configurations

Access Management

User Groups

In the

User Groups

page, a number of different options are available to help you manage user groups.

Manage your Cortex XDR user groups.

The following options are available to help you manage user groups, which you can perform on one or more user groups at a time.

Import a single existing group from Active Directory that you want to manage in Cortex XDR.

This feature is only available if you enabled the Cloud Identity Engine in

Configurations

Integrations

Cloud Identity Engine

Import AD Group

Set the following parameters in the

Import Group from Active Directory

window.

Import AD Group

—Specify the particular Active Directory group in the field and select whether the AD group can be found in

All

OUs

, or

Groups

Only CSP users will be imported.

-Specify a

Description

Role

—Select a role that you want to designate for this user group, where only a single role can be assigned to a group.

Import

the user group.

Create a new user group for a number of different system users or groups.

Select

New Group

Set the following parameters in the

New Custom Group

window.

-Specify the

Name

and

Description

for the user group.

Role

—Select a role that you want to designate for this user group, where only a single role can be assigned to a group.

Users

—Select the user(s) that you want to belong to this user group, where you can also use the search field to narrow down the list of users.

Nested Groups

—(optional) Select the nested group(s) that you want associated with this user group.

Create

the user group.

Save an existing group as a new group.

Select the user group or right-click the user group, and select

Save as New Group

Set the following parameters in the

New Custom Group

window.

-Specify the

Name

and

Description

for the user group.

Role

—Leave the designated role or select a new role that you want to designate for this user group.

Users

—Leave the current user(s) or select the user(s) that you want to belong to this user group. You can also use the search field to narrow down the list of users.

Nested Groups

—Leave the current nested group(s), select the nested group(s) that you want associated with this user group, or remove all nested groups if you don’t want any defined.

Create

the user group.

Edit a user group.

Select the user group or right-click the user group, and select

Edit Group

Set the following parameters in the

Edit Custom Group

window.

-Update the

Name

and

Description

for the user group.

Role

—Leave the designated role or select a new role that you want to designate for this user group.

Users

—Leave the current user(s) or select the user(s) that you want to belong to this user group. You can also use the search field to narrow down the list of users.

Nested Groups

—Leave the current nested group(s), select the nested group(s) that you want associated with this user group, or remove all nested groups if you don’t want any defined.

Save

your changes.

Remove a user group.

To remove more than one user group, select the user groups, right-click, and select

Remove Groups

To remove one user group, select the user group or right-click the user group, and select

Remove Group

Click

Delete

in the window that is displayed.

Copy text to clipboard

to copy text from a specific row field in the row of a user group.

Copy entire row

to copy the text from all the fields in a row of a user group.

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