Who Can Do What: Credential Requirements for SAS Management Console Tasks

Who Can Do What in the Server Manager Plug-in

Use the following table to determine the group memberships, role memberships, and other criteria that enable users to perform tasks in the Server Manager plug-in in SAS Management Console:

Who Can Do What in the Server Manager Plug-in
Actions	Requirements¹
Actions	Centralized Administration Approach	Delegated Administration Approach
Create or update server metadata (except the SASMeta workspace server and the SASMeta DATA step batch server) Validate servers (except the SASMeta workspace server) Connect to servers and spawners and view the following tabs²: Metadata server Connections and Options tabs Object spawner Options tab OLAP server Connections, Sessions, and Options tabs	Membership in the SAS Administrators group Validation of a standard (non-pooled) workspace server also requires credentials to start a workspace server.	Membership in the Management Console: Advanced role Validation of a standard (nonpooled) workspace server also requires credentials to start a workspace server.
Connect to servers and spawners (except the metadata server and the SASMeta workspace server) and view all tabs² Adjust the logging level for a server, spawner, or server process (except the metadata server) Stop, pause, resume, or quiesce a server, spawner, or server process (except the metadata server and the SASMeta workspace server) Refresh the object spawner	Membership in the SAS Administrators group	Membership in the Management Console: Advanced role, and Administer permission on server metadata
Connect to the metadata server and view the Clients, Loggers, and Logs tabs² Adjust the metadata server's logging levels Stop, pause, or resume the metadata server	Membership in the SAS Administrators group	Membership in the Management Console: Advanced and Metadata Server: Operation roles
Validate the SASMeta workspace server Connect to the SASMeta workspace server and view tabs² Stop, pause, resume, or quiesce a process on the SASMeta workspace server	Membership in the SAS Administrators group	Membership in the Management Console: Advanced role; and ReadMetadata and Administer permission on the SASMeta workspace server
1 These columns list minimum requirements. The Metadata Server: Unrestricted role can be substituted for any of the roles and groups that are specified here. 2 To view tabs, you must right-click on the server or spawner and click Connect.

As a best practice, users who are members of the SAS Administrators group should be defined as internal users (rather than external users) in metadata.

For more information, and to understand what role memberships and permissions are derived from membership in this group, see About Adding Users to the SAS Administrators Group.

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