User Management

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.

  Note

  The Search and Operational Analytics roles designed for this user type and the roles contained in it provide the authorizations required for the administration of Search and Operational Analytics. They do not include any generic system privileges required to administer the underlying SAP system.

For more information about roles and authorizations, see Authorizations.