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Plan Permission Group Assignments

Plan a strategy for assigning site groups as permissions to CA Performance Center operators.

Permission groups are custom groups or site groups that organize managed items for purposes of data access. The term permission groups describes the assignment of custom groups or site groups to user accounts as permission sets.

Assigning groups as permissions has the following benefits:

• Users view data specifically within their area of responsibility
• Administrators can restrict the users who can view data for security reasons

Follow these steps:

1. Make a list of IT employees who will use CA Performance Center when it is fully deployed.

   Note: Each CA Performance Center operator requires a user account. User accounts should not be shared.

2. Create a table to organize staff assignments. For example:

If multiple staff members are assigned to the same region, they require the same permission group assignments. You allocate these permissions from the site groups that you create.

Your team's responsibilities might instead be allocated on a logical basis, such as in the following example:

• Staff Member A: WAN Routers
• Staff Member B: Servers
• Staff Member C: Unified Communications media devices

You can assign permissions to these staff members from the custom groups that you create. Custom groups and logical grouping structures are beyond the scope of this use case.

1. Using the table that you created, make a list of the permission groups that are required to monitor all areas of the enterprise.

   In your list, associate staff members with permission groups.

   Your list guides you when you create groups and assign them as permissions to user accounts. For example: