User Management

User management for Search and Operational Analytics uses the mechanisms provided with the SAP NetWeaver Application Server for ABAP, for example, tools and user types. For more information about user management in SAP NetWeaver in general, see the SAP NetWeaver Security Guide.

User Types

It is often necessary to specify different security policies for different types of users. For example, your policy may specify that individual users who interactively perform tasks must change their passwords on a regular basis, while those users under which background processing jobs run need not change passwords on a frequent basis.

The following user types are required for Search and Operational Analytics:

  • Search Users

    Information users who enter search requests. For this user type, Embedded Search provides the ABAP composite role SAP_ESH_SEARCH. Search users must have this role to be able to use the search user interface (search UI).

  • Administrator users:

    System administrators and business specialists working on the customer side. Search and Operational Analytics provides the ABAP composite role SAP_ESH_LOCAL_ADMIN for this type of user.

For more information about roles and authorizations, see Authorizations.