Types of groups: internal and external

When Unica is integrated with an external server (such as a supported LDAP server or a web access control system), it supports two types of groups: internal and external.

  • Internal - Groups that are created within Unica using the security user interface. These users are authenticated through Unica.
  • External - Unica groups that are mapped to groups in the external system. Examples of eternal servers are LDAP and web access control servers.
    Attention: A group referred to as an external group in this guide is one that is actually created in Unica but is mapped to an external system.

Depending on your configuration, you may have only internal groups, only external groups, or a combination of both.

For more information about integrating Unica with an LDAP or Windows Active Directory server, see the relevant sections of this guide.

Management of external groups

The membership of external groups is managed in the external system.

You can assign roles to Unica external groups just as you do to internal groups.

Management of internal groups and subgroups

You can define an unlimited number of internal groups, and any internal or external user can be a member of multiple internal groups and subgroups.

A subgroup does not inherit the user members assigned to its parents, but it does inherit the roles assigned to its parents. A group and its subgroups always belong to one partition.

Only internal groups may be assigned to a partition, and only the platform_admin user, or another account with the PlatformAdminRole role, can create groups in all partitions in a multi-partition environment.