2.1.3 About business groups
In Performance Management, you can group monitored hosts by business unit and limit the monitoring agents available to users. A group of monitored hosts created for a business unit is called a business group. Users who are assigned a business group are able to reference the monitoring agents within the range defined in the business group.
In this manual, a user who is assigned a business group is called a business group user, and a user with access to the entire system is called a system user. Only users with general user permission can be assigned a business group. Users with administrator user permission are already able to configure and reference all monitoring agents. A user with general user permission who is assigned a business group is called a business group ordinary user.
In Performance Management, you can use business groups defined by Performance Management, and business groups defined in the integrated management product (JP1/IM).
- Business groups defined in Performance Management
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Business groups are assigned to monitored hosts and user accounts by Performance Management.
Use this approach when you are not linking with JP1/IM, and when you want to manage the business groups used with Performance Management separately from those defined in JP1/IM.
You can use these business groups in PFM authentication mode and in JP1 authentication mode.
- Business groups defined in JP1/IM
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You can use the business groups defined by JP1/IM by importing the business group hierarchy into Performance Management. Use this approach when you are linking Performance Management with JP1/IM and wish to keep the same association in the two products between monitored hosts and the user accounts that are able to access them. This helps you avoid issues that occur due to mismatched business group assignments when performing certain tasks such as displaying Performance Management reports from JP1/IM.
You can use these business groups in JP1 authentication mode.
For details on linking with JP1/IM, see 12. Linking with the Integrated Management Product JP1/IM for Operation Monitoring.