Subscriber Groups

A group is a collection of subscribers. Subscribing groups to channels facilitates subscription management, which allows the convenient delivery of information to group members who share a common interest, such as members of an accounting group or a development staff. When a group is subscribed to a channel, each member of the group who has a defined subscriber entry in the publishing framework will receive the information that is published to that channel.

Only the administrator has the authority to add members to or remove members from a group. Furthermore, the administrator is responsible for subscribing groups to and removing group subscriptions (unsubscribing) from a channel, using the Integration Technologies Administrator. The Integration Technologies Administrator is a Java application for creating and modifying the LDAP definitions for objects, such as group subscriptions, that are used by SAS Integration Technologies.