Administering Roles

The User Manager in SAS Management Console provides roles and capabilities that you can assign to users. When a user profile is assigned to a role, that user has access to the capabilities that are selected for that role in the User Manager.

Opening the User Manager displays roles for the following desktop applications:

SAS Management Console
SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office (see Default Roles and Capabilities for the SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office)
SAS Enterprise Guide (see Default Roles and Capabilities for SAS Enterprise Guide)
SAS Web Report Studio (see the SAS Intelligence Platform: Web Application Administration Guide)

SAS Management Console provides two default roles: Advanced and Content Management. The following table describes the capabilities that are assigned to those roles by default. In the User Manager, you can change the capabilities of a role or add new roles with unique sets of capabilities.

Default Capabilities Assigned to Roles for SAS Management Console

		Role
Capability	Description	Advanced	Content Management
General Category
Access Unregistered Plug-ins	Access plug-ins that are not registered in metadata.	X
Plug-ins Category
Application Monitor	Monitor the activities of applications, subsystems and services.	X
Authorization Manager	Manage resource access control policies.	X	X
Data Library Manager	Manage the definitions of data libraries and database schemas.	X	X
Folder View	Manage public and user folders used to store metadata objects.	X	X
Foundation Services Manager	Manage Foundation Services components.	X
Metadata Manager	Create and manage metadata repositories, manage the current SAS Metadata Server, and run metadata utilities.	X
Publishing Framework	Manage publishing framework subscribers and content channels.	X
Schedule Manager	Manage SAS jobs to be scheduled, create conditional events for schedules, and submit jobs for scheduling.	X
Server Manager	Create and manage server definitions (such as for SAS servers, database servers, and spawners).
User Manager	Create and manage users, groups, roles, and capabilities.	X	X