AutoGroup
Automate group creation, membership maintenance, and default role preparation from authoritative reference data.
Updates group membership automatically when authoritative attributes like department or role change, keeping access groups aligned without manual effort.
Overview
AutoGroup addresses a common IAM challenge: translating organizational data into manageable groups and access structures without large amounts of custom development. It uses reference data such as department, user type, job code, or other authoritative characteristics to create and maintain groups automatically within NetIQ IDM.
By keeping these groups up to date as source data evolves, AutoGroup enables consistent access-right automation at scale. It can populate memberships, maintain nested groups, prepare role-catalog containers, and create ready-to-use roles linked to the generated groups. This turns complex, repetitive administration into a controlled automation pattern that improves both security and operational efficiency.
Features
Creates groups from reference data, sets users as members of their relevant groups, and maintains nested-group relationships as the organizational model changes. It can also create role-catalog placeholders, including dedicated containers and ready-to-use roles associated with each group, so default access can be assigned automatically to group members.
Benefits
Automates time-consuming group and role preparation tasks
Keeps memberships aligned with changing organizational data
Supports nested-group modeling for richer org-chart and hierarchy use cases
Reduces manual errors in access-structure maintenance
Prepares RBAC foundations that accelerate downstream provisioning
Helps SARA deliver scalable default-access automation