Types of groups: internal and external

When IBM® Unica Marketing 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 – Groups that are created within IBM® Unica Marketing using the security user interface. These users are authenticated through IBM® Unica Marketing.

External – IBM® Unica Marketing groups that are mapped to groups in the external system. This synchronization occurs only if IBM® Unica Marketing has been configured to integrate with the external server. Examples of eternal servers are LDAP and web access control servers. Note that a group referred to as an external group in this guide is one that is actually created in IBM® Unica Marketing 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 IBM® Unica Marketing 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 mapped 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 subgoup group inherits the user members and the roles assigned to its parents. A group and its subrgoups 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.