Adding monitored employees and employee groups to departments

Last published : Oct 15, 2026
You can add monitored employees and employee groups to the Arctera Surveillance departments in the following ways:
  • While creating a department in Arctera Surveillance (described below).
  • While creating an archive account in Arctera Management Console, Arctera Surveillance administrators do not need to create employee profiles separately in Arctera Surveillance.
    Note: Arctera Surveillance audits the activity of assigning monitored employees to departments and generates a log file for your reference.
An important activity in Arctera Surveillance is to add employees and employee groups to the departments in which you want to monitor them. You can add new employee groups to Arctera Surveillance from the Microsoft Azure Active Directory.
For more information, see Adding employee groups.
Note: You must have the Add Monitored Employees and Grant Users Access permissions to add employees to a department. By default, users that have the User Admin role have these permissions.
For more information on searching for archive accounts, creating an archive account, deploying users and enabling their access to Arctera Surveillance, and removing user access, see the Arctera Management Console User Guide.
To add monitored employees to a department
  1. In the left navigation pane, click Departments.
  2. Search for and select the department to which the monitored employees will be added.
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  3. In the Monitored Employees tab, click Add Employees.
    The Add Employees dialog box appears and displays the available employees and employee groups.
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  4. Search for and select one or more employees and employee groups.
    Notes:
    • Individual employees and employee group are distinguished using the different icons.
    • If the selected employee and employee group are already monitored in other departments, an exclamation icon is displayed besides the names of those employees and employee groups. You can still add such employees to the department for monitoring purposes. The system displays a prompt listing the first ten departments and the number of the remaining departments in which the employee or employee groups being monitored.
    To select multiple employees and employee groups from multiple pages, select the corresponding check boxes. Click the navigation arrows to go to the next or the previous pages.
  5. Click Save.