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# Associations

An association is a bundled group of users (or user lists), along with any number of non-overlapping roles, and any number of nodes (or node lists). Associations are managed in and then pushed to managed nodes, in order to grant permissions to users of those nodes.

You can create associations, push them to included nodes, send notifications about pushed associations, and delete associations.

To create an association:

Note: Prior to creating an association, create all users (or user lists), node lists, and roles to be included in the association.

1. Click User Management > Associations.
2. Click New.
3. In Association Name, enter a name for the new association.
4. In the Available Users and User Lists column, select multiple users or user lists to include. Use the Add button to move the selections to the Selected Users and User Lists column.
5. Click Next.
6. On the Assign Roles page, in the Available Roles column, select one or more roles to include. Use the Add button to move the selections to the Selected Roles column.
7. Roles in an association may not overlap in terms of product type.
8. Click Next.
9. In the Available Nodes and Node Lists column, select multiple nodes or node lists to include. Use the Add button to move the selections to the Selected Nodes and Node Lists column.
10. Click Check Conflicts. A conflict is returned if the permissions assigned in the association conflict with any other association that also assigned the same permission groups types. For example, if an existing association assigns read/write access to User A, and your newly-created new association assigns read-only rights to User A, then a conflict would be returned.

- If a conflict was found in the association, edit the association to correct the conflict shown.
- If no conflict was found, click Yes to push the new association to all nodes included in the association.

To push an association to its included nodes:

1. Click User Management > Associations.
2. Click the name of the association you wish to push.
3. Click Push. The association is pushed to its included nodes.

Note: An association is pushed only to nodes (or node lists) that it includes. To push an association to a particular node, make sure the node is included in the association, either directly or through a node list.

By default, email notifications are sent to all users in the association when the association is pushed. You can choose to disable these push notifications by adding the `arcmc.notify.user` property to the `logger.properties` file.

To disable user notifications of a pushed association:

1. In a text editor, open the file `.../userdata/arcmc/logger.properties`.

If the file does not exist, create one by following the instructions given here.

2. Add this line to the file.
`arcmc.notify.user=false`

3. Save the changes.

4. Restart the ArcMC web process.

To edit an association:

1. Click User Management > Associations.
2. Click the name of the association you wish to edit.
3. Edit the components of the association as needed.
4. Click Save.

To delete one or more associations:

1. Select User Management > Associations.
2. From the list of associations, select one or more associations to delete.
3. Click Delete.
4. Click Yes to confirm deletion.