External Group Mapping Tab

If you set up external user authentication, you can map NetWitness user roles to an external group. The External Group Mapping tab provides information about each external group to which you have mapped roles.

Workflow

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What do you want to do?

Role I want to ... Show me how
Admin Map a role to an external group (Optional) Map User Roles to External Groups
Admin Search for an external group Search for External Groups

Related Topics

Quick Look

To access this view, go to netwitness_adminicon_25x22.png (Admin) > Security and click the External Group Mapping tab.

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The External Group Mapping includes the following sections.

1 Toolbar
2 List

Toolbar

The following table describes the External Group Mapping toolbar.

Icon Description
netwitness_icon-add.png Displays the Add Role Mapping dialog in which you can select an external group and map it to a NetWitness role.
netwitness_icon_delete.png Displays a warning message and asks for confirmation to remove all NetWitness roles mapped to the external group.
netwitness_icon_edit.png Displays the Edit Role Mapping dialog in which you can add or remove NetWitness roles from the external group.

List

The following table describes the External Group Mapping list.

Feature Description
Group type In the column on the left, click either Active Directory or PAM or SSO to show groups for the selected type.
Selection box In a row, toggles selection of a group name. In the title bar, toggles selection of all group names.
Group Name Displays the name of the external group that has access to NetWitness.
Mapped Roles Displays the NetWitness roles mapped to the external group.