Avocent Network Device SPC420 - Manual (Page 263)

Chapter 18: User Groups 243
3. The Select Authentication Service window will open. This window lists all authentication
services that may be used to authenticate the user group when the user logs in. See
Authentication Services on page 79.
Click on the name of an authentication service and then click Next.
• If you selected DSView Internal as the authentication service, go to step 4.
• If you selected any other type of authentication service, go to step 5.
NOTE: If you are adding a group to the TACACS+ authentication service, see TACACS+ external authentication
services on page 244 for more information.
4. The Type in Internal Group Name window will open. Type the name for the new user group
you wish to create. User-defined user group names may contain up to 256 characters. User-
defined user group names are case-preserving. Go to step 6.
5. The Specify External Group window opens. Complete one of the following steps, then click
Next:
• Click Specify a group on external authentication service and type the name of the group in
the field.
User group names may contain up to 256 non-case sensitive characters. User group names
are case-preserving if the user group on the external authentication server is case sensitive.
See Group naming in external authentication services on page 242.
• Click Import the external group - Everyone to consider any user on the external
authentication server as a member of this user group.
• Click Find a group on external authentication service to choose from the list of groups on
the external authentication service. If the list of groups contains more than 5000 entries, a
message will indicate that not all items are displayed.
You may filter the list by using the Filter button and the adjacent text field. If you are
using an Active Directory Server, you can choose the filter method.
Click Filter in DSView 3 Server (legacy) to use a traditional filtering method; see Filtering
information in a window on page 26.
-or-
Click Filter in Active Directory Server to use a modified filtering method that only
provides matches to the filter string based on the common name (CN) of the group. This
filter uses LDAP search syntax. This method passes the filter to the AD server allowing
the AD server to return the matches, which provides faster results than the legacy filter
method.
Select one or more external authentication service groups from the list.
6. Select a role for the user group(s). See Built-in User Groups on page 40 for information about
user roles.
7. From the Preemption Levels menu, select a preemption level from 1-4; the higher the number,
the higher the preemption level. See Preemption Levels on page 41.