Authorizations and Filters (SAP Library - SAP Event Management (SAP EM))

Authorizations and Filters

Use

Extensive authorization and filter options are available in SAP Event Management (SAP EM) that you can use to control information queries to SAP EM (see User Interfaces).

Authorization Profile

You specify authorization profiles to:

● Allow information to be displayed when querying or evaluating event handler data.

● Allow event handlers to be created and changed in SAP EM (see also Authorizations for Changing Data and Sending Event Messages)

Note

Note that the system only checks the first 40 characters of the parameter values.

For an example of how you define a user authorization with which a user can display event handler data, see SAP Event Management User.

Filter Profile

A filter profile allows you to restrict the event handler data that is displayed in a user-specific or role-specific way.

Prerequisites

You have the authorization to assign a user to a role and a profile.

Activities

The following figure provides an overview of the connection between user, role, authorization profile, filter profile, and event handler type:

This graphic is explained in the accompanying text

Authorization Profiles

● Depending on the authorization profile, SAP EM only displays certain parameters to the user when creating, changing, or evaluating event handler data. You define in the SAP EM authorization profile the control and info parameters that SAP EM makes available to the user for displaying or processing data.

● You assign the authorization profile to an event handler type.

● You assign the authorization data to a role.

By assigning the authorization profile to a role, you determine the authorization objects and their executable activities. For example, a shift manager can only see data for plant 1100.

For more information about users and roles, see the SAP Library under mySAP Technology Components ® SAP Web Application Server ® Security (BC-SEC) ® Users and Roles (BC-SEC-USR).

For more information about roles in SAP EM, see Authorizations for Changing Data and Sending Event Messages and Roles in SAP Event Management.

● You assign a role to a user (transaction SU01).

For more information about defining authorization profiles, see the Implementation Guide (IMG) for Event Management ® Authorizations and Filters ® Define Authorization Profiles.

Filter Profiles

● In the filter profile you specify which event handler components (for example, the expected events for an event handler) SAP EM displays to a user.

● You specify tables, fields, or rows that SAP EM does not display to the user.

● You assign the filter profile to an event handler type.

● You assign the filter profile to a user or to a role.

For more information about defining filter profiles, see the Implementation Guide (IMG) forEvent Management ® Authorizations and Filters ® Define Filter Profiles.