WebLogic Security Users and Roles

There are three Essbase user roles if you choose WebLogic based security: User, Power User, and Service Administrator. Application permissions, granted separately, are Application Manager, Database Manager, Database Update, and Database Access.

The following are common use cases for assigning access to users using WebLogic security:

• Users can view and access cubes (databases) for which they were assigned access to the related applications.
• Power Users can create enterprise-level cubes and grant other users access to applications for which they have an Application Manager role.
• Service Administrators can assign users at all levels and manage all aspects of the applications, cubes, and users. Service Administrators can assign a Database Update role for users who need to update data in a cube.

To provide access to Essbase users, the following steps are required:

• Assign Essbase user role
• Assign Essbase application-level permissions

Administrators assign appropriate user/group roles and application permissions using the Essbase web interface or the REST API. User access permissions are described in Understand Your Access Permissions in Essbase, in the Using Oracle Essbase documentation.