Defining Users

In order to schedule jobs using Platform Suite for SAS, users must be defined (in the operating system of the server) and configured. The following table lists these users.
User Definition Summary
User ID
Description
Locations
Permissions
any user ID that is an LSF administrator
Primary administrator for the Platform scheduling server; owns the Process Manager server
Created in operating system; must be part of Administrators Group
Must have full control of LSF and Process manager directories; on Windows, must also have Act as part of operating system and Log on as a batch job user rights
any user ID that is an LSF user
User who has permission to schedule jobs using the Schedule Manager plug-in
Created in operating system; not required to be defined in metadata, but can be defined in metadata to avoid prompting for credentials; part of SAS Server Users Group
lsfuser
Default user ID used by SAS Web Report Studio to schedule reports
Created in operating system; added in metadata as the login for the LSF Services group to support centralized password management