How to set and protect a spawn area in bukkit minecraft?

I am running a minecraft bukkit server. I have the essentials plug ins and ground manager. I want to set an area to be my spawn and protect it but even though I made myself OP and Admin, it sais I don't have permmsion to do /setspawn. I also want to protect is from greifers. Please help!

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