Creating access groups for alerts using the CLI

Use the commands in this topic to create an access group.

To create an access group:

Go to CLI configuration mode:

hostname > enable
hostname # configure terminal

Create the access group:
```
hostname (config) # aaa authorization access-groups group <access group name> [description "<description>"]
```
where:
- access group name is the name of the access group.
- description is optional information about the access group. Enclose the description in double quotation marks if it includes more than one word.

Verify your change:

hostname (config) # show aaa authorization groups group <access group name>

Save your changes:
```
hostname (config) # write memory
```

Example

The following example creates the "nx-alerts" access group on the cm-03 appliance.

cm-03 (config) # aaa authorization access-groups group nx-alerts

cm-03 (config) # show aaa authorization access-groups nx-alerts

 AAA Authorization Access-groups Rules : Enabled

-----------------------------------------------------
# Group: nx-alerts

-----------------------------------------------------
 No Rules Configured

Note

For an example of a fully configured access group, see Example: configuring an access groups for alerts.