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JP1 Version 12 JP1/Integrated Management 2 - Manager Overview and System Design Guide

4.1.4 Restrictions on viewing and operating business groups

The system administrator can restrict what JP1 users are able to view and operate on. This is called restrictions on viewing and operating business groups.

If restrictions on viewing and operating business groups are enabled, a user can view and operate on only the JP1 events issued within the assigned business group. This prevents users from unintentionally operating on JP1 events in other business groups.

If restrictions on viewing and operating business groups are enabled, the following windows display only the JP1 events issued within the assigned business group:

In this example, resource group sigenA is assigned to business group A, and resource group sigenB is assigned to business group B.

For details about how to enable restrictions on viewing and operating business groups, see 5.19 Setting reference and operation restrictions on business groups in the JP1/Integrated Management 2 - Manager Configuration Guide.

When you change the configuration of business groups, note the following:

For details about business groups, see 7.4 Managing business groups.

Organization of this subsection

(1) Settings when multiple business groups are assigned to a JP1 user

You can assign multiple JP1 resource groups that can be viewed and operated to a JP1 user. You can also assign different JP1 permission levels for the individual resource groups. This enables operation as shown in the following figure, where a user can operate on some of the displayed JP1 events and can view other displayed JP1 events.

Figure 4‒9: Control of viewing and operating business groups by using combinations of JP1 resource groups and JP1 permission levels

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(2) Assigning a JP1 resource group and permission level to a JP1 user

If restrictions on viewing and operating business groups are enabled, operations allowed for a JP1 user depend on the combination of the JP1 resource group and JP1 permission level assigned to the user. Check and, if necessary, revise the assigned JP1 resource group and JP1 permission level of the user.

For details about operations allowed for each combination of JP1 resource group and JP1 permission level, see E.2(2) Operating permissions required when restrictions on viewing and operating business groups are enabled.

When restrictions on viewing and operating business groups are enabled, even JP1 users who are restricted from viewing and operating business groups can perform the following operations:

For details about JP1 permission levels when restrictions on viewing and operating business groups are disabled, see E.2(1) Operating permissions required when restrictions on viewing and operating business groups are disabled.

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(3) How to specify business groups

When the conditions below are met, you can specify the path to a business group for an event condition or the name of the execution host (command execution target host). By doing so, you need only to change what hosts belong to a business group or monitoring group, and you do not need to change the definitions.

When these conditions are not met, even if you specify a business group for an event condition or the name of the execution host (command execution target host), it is handled as a host name rather than as a business group.

The following table describes the correspondence between the attributes for which a business group can be specified as an event condition and the functions.

Table 4‒3: Correspondence between the attributes for event conditions and the functions

Function

Attributes

Source host

(B.SOURCESERVER)

Destination event server name

(B.DESTSERVER)

Event source host name

(E.JP1_SOURCEHOST)

Severe event definition

Y

N

Y

Event search

Y

N

Y

Filtering using the event acquisition filter (common exclusion-conditions in extended mode)

Y

N

Y

Filtering using the event receiver filter

Y

N

Y

Filtering using the view filter

Y

N

Y

Automated action

Y

N

Y

Correlation event generation

Y

Y

Y

Severity change

Y

Y

Y

Changing the message display format

Y

Y

Y

Filter file for output of an event report

Y

N

Y

Mapping of the event source host

Y

Y

N

Suppression of repeated-event monitoring

Y

N

Y
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Y: Can be specified.

N: Cannot be specified. (The attribute does not exist.)

When you specify a business group for an event condition, you can specify IN (match) or NOTIN (do not match) as the operator.

If a condition for specifying a business group in a path representation is satisfied or the operator is neither IN (match) nor NOTIN (do not match), the business group is handled as a host name even if the business group is specified for the event condition and the target (host targeted by the command).

Note that an event condition is determined to be not satisfied when no host exists in the specified business group.

You can specify the name of the execution host (command execution target host) when an automated action is executed, action results are displayed, a command button is defined, or a command is executed. The following shows example specifications of paths.

Example: When specifying a host in the business group Personnel system for an event condition:

/Personnel system

Example: When specifying the monitoring group AP server in the business group Personnel system for an event condition:

/Personnel system/AP server

After a business group or monitoring group is applied, the name of the business group or monitoring group specified in the definitions below in the Central Console is changed to the latest name. Note that, if a business group or monitoring group is deleted, the name (specified in the Central Console) of the business group or monitoring group changes to a double slash (//) and is invalidated.

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