A group consists of users and other accounts that have a common characteristics. For example, the Finance group consisting of all employees in the Finance department.
In Identity Manager 4.8.x (x = 0, 1, 2, and 2.1), groups could only be searched based on its description. However, in Identity Manager 4.8.3 and later, Administrators who have access to the Settings page can customize the attributes for which a group entity can be searched. This means that when searching for a specific group while assigning a role to a group, making a group as the owner of a resource, or performing a simple search in the Groups page, the application will return the names of the group as a result that match the searched attribute. For more information, see Customizing the Views in the NetIQ Identity Manager - Administrator’s Guide to the Identity Applications.