Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold User Guide - Ipswitch Documentation Server

Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold User Guide
For example, an administrator creates a new user account and leaves the Home group as the
default My Network. The new user account automatically receives Group Read rights to My
Network. At a later date, the administrator changes the user account to use a subgroup as the
user's Home group. Unless the administrator deliberately removes the Group Read right from
My Network, the user continues to have Group Read rights to My Network, potentially
granting the user more visibility into WhatsUp Gold than the administrator intended.
Changing the user's Home group is not enough to restrict what he or she can see in WhatsUp
Gold.
About group access rights and dynamic device groups
Group access rights cannot be assigned to dynamic device groups. However, every device
within a dynamic device group belongs to at least one other group. Therefore, when a user
accesses a device accessed through a dynamic device group, the rights he or she is granted
to the device are equal to the sum of the rights granted in each of the groups to which the
device belongs.
For more information, see Determining the highest right (on page 863).
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