Intel,Altiris Group

What is the replacement for secured collections in Altiris 7?  Secure filters do not exist.  We used secured collections to provide a limited scope of systems for deployment and testing purposes to a number of different security roles.

Thanks,

Joel

Hi Joel,

You can use the Organizational View structre to provide a limited scope. When you assign security roles and permissions to your organizational views and groups, you give each security role its own unique view, or "scope", of the available resources.

Regards,

You create an organizational view (OV), e.g. 'Department View,' under which you group resources into organizational groups (OGs).  You could then place each computer in the Marketing or Accounting group, etc., in that view.  You then assign people to roles.  The roles have permissions.  And the roles are assigned to groups.  By connection, you're basically giving people (in roles) permissions (to groups) to computers (in those groups).

Computers can exist in only one group in that view.  BILL-PC cannot exist in the Department View within both Accounting and Marketing.  But it can exist in the Department View within Marketing, and within the Regional View within United States.

If the multiple view thing confuses you, you can always use just one view.

Does this answer your question?

I understand what you are saying.  How do you assign the roles to the organizational group?  I know you can right click on the organizational group and assign a role.  Where can I see if the role is linked to the organizational group?  Thanks.