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The SAS Web Administrator (typically, saswbadm) is a service account that is used to perform administrative tasks for SAS 9.1.3 Web applications such as SAS^® Information Delivery Portal 3.1 and SAS^® Web Report Studio 3.1. In the initial deployment, the SAS Web Administrator is a member of the Portal Administrators group and the SAS System Services group. These memberships are required so that the SAS Web Administrator can perform its required tasks. (The Portal Administrators group must have WriteMetadata access to the Foundation repository, which is typically controlled via the repository ACT.) After initial deployment, if you, for example, change permissions and group memberships for the SAS Web Administrator account, the Web applications might exhibit unexpected behavior.

Note: In SAS 9.2, the SAS Trusted User account (sastrust) performs the tasks that are handled by the SAS Web Administrator in SAS 9.1.3. For information about user roles for system administration in SAS 9.2, see SAS 9.2 Intelligence Platform: System Administration Guide: Overview of Initial Roles, Groups, and Users.

Here are some major ways in which the SAS Web Administrator account is used for SAS Web applications:

SAS Information Delivery Portal

SAS Information Delivery Portal uses the SAS Web Administrator to perform specific tasks, such as deploying portlets and creating SAS group permission trees. The SAS Web Administrator also has administrative privileges for all of the portal Web application content. The SAS Web Administrator can access a portal user’s pages and share content with any SAS group. For more information about how SAS Information Delivery Portal uses the SAS Web Administrator account, start with Chapter 14 in the SAS® 9.1.3 Intelligence Platform: Web Application Administration Guide.

SAS Web Report Studio

SAS Web Report Studio uses the SAS Web Administrator to communicate with the WebDAV content server. For more information, see the diagram on page 135 and the topic "Protecting Report Content in the WebDAV Server" on page 137 in SAS® 9.1.3 Intelligence Platform: Web Application Administration Guide

SAS BI Dashboard

Pooled Workspace Servers

With pooled workspace servers, a user group is granted rights to use the puddles in the pool. In order to use the pooled workspace server connections for query caching, the SAS Web Administrator must be a member of the puddle user group. Otherwise, a standard workspace server session will be launched whenever the query cache is used.

SAS Servers

For information about the server processes that are owned by the SAS Web Administrator, see the "Process Owners" diagram on page 16 in SAS® 9.1.3 Intelligence Platform: System Administration Guide.

Additional Resources

Securing SAS®9 Business Intelligence Content Managed in Metadata

Operating System and Release Information