Roles, which determine the tasks that users can perform, can be grouped in the following ways:
Examples of Essbase roles are Administrator and Database Manager. All Essbase roles are specific to a Shared Services application (the permissions granted to the user by the role apply only to the specific application for which the role is assigned, and not to all applications).
Examples of Shared Services roles are Project Manager or Provisioning Manager. Most Shared Services roles are global (the role applies to all Shared Services applications). An exception is the Provisioning Manager role, which is specific to an application.
See the Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management System User and Role Security Guide.
The following Essbase roles provide different levels of authority to perform tasks in Essbase.
You can provision a user with the following roles for an Essbase Server:
You can provision a user with the following roles for an application:
In Shared Services Console, roles belonging to Essbase are grouped under the Essbase node; roles belonging to Essbase applications are grouped under the application nodes.
There is no concept of provisioning an Administration Services Administrator user role through Shared Services. When migrated, an Administration Services Administrator is assigned no roles in Shared Services. |
Table 120 lists the user roles that are specific to Essbase and the Shared Services role of Provisioning Manager, which is application-specific. The table shows the corresponding tasks that each user can perform.
Table 120. Essbase and Shared Services User Roles and Tasks