Group and Lookup Service (GLS) is a shared service that provides group administration and lookup service for managed resources. GLS encapsulates the mechanisms for creating, changing, searching, and deleting groups and group memberships. Use GLS to group resources in ways that work best for the business, such as organizing resources by location, organization, and function.
On the System Manager web console, with GLS, you can assign different roles to administrators and allow administrators to perform only limited tasks on group of resources. For example, you can create a user group so that only an authorized user can manage the user group.
GLS supports group administration for the following common resources:
GLS contains a repository of groups and memberships from System Manager and other applications that use the GLS service. GLS synchronizes the resources with other Avaya applications and services that manage these resources. GLS maintains resource IDs and their group memberships. With GLS, you can search for one or more resources based on their attribute values and get resource attributes for one or more resources.
With GLS, you can perform the following operations:
Create groups.
View and change groups.
Create duplicate groups by copying properties of existing groups.
Move groups across hierarchies.
Assign and remove resources for groups.
Delete groups.
Synchronize groups.
As a shared service, GLS reduces the time and effort involved by defining reusable groups of managed resources that more than one application or service requires. For example, you can use the group of resources to assign permissions through Role Based Access Control (RBAC).
