Grant or Revoke Permission Assignments

Use the grantPermissionSetsToBIRole and revokePermissionSetsFromBIRole scripts to fine-tune permission assignments.

After you upgrade from Oracle BI EE to Oracle Analytics Server, Oracle Analytics Server automatically assigns any new permissions or permission sets to your application roles to make the new features available to users. Therefore it's important that you review how Oracle Analytics Server assigned these permissions. Use the scripts to make any necessary adjustments.

Certain features work only when permission sets are granted together. If you revoke an individual permission set, you might experience unforeseen side effects.

Note:

Oracle Analytics Server includes standard permissions that are assigned to predefined application roles. For example, the Create and Edit Datasets permission is automatically assigned to the DV Content Author role. These standard permissions are included in the permission sets listed below, and in some cases the standard permission are included when you grant a permissions set. If you want to grant or revoke standard permissions to user-defined application roles, use the Console. See Copy Permissions to an Existing User-Defined Application Role.

To grant or revoke permissions for an application role, run the appropriate script:

• grantPermissionSetsToBIRole.sh | .cmd
• revokePermissionSetsFromBIRole.sh | .cmd

Path: [DOMAIN_HOME]/bitools/bin

Usage:

./grantPermissionSetsToBIRole.sh [-d domainHome] [-s sikey] -r BIRoleName -p PermissionSets

./revokePermissionSetsFromBIRole.sh [-d domainHome] [-s sikey] -r BIRoleName -p PermissionSets

-d: Specify the domain home (including the final domainName directory). By default, the DOMAIN_HOME value is set. If the value isn't set, enter the actual domain home path.

-s: Specify the key for the service instance. The default is ssi.

-r: Specify the application role name.

-p: Specify the comma-separated list of permission sets.

For example, on Linux:

./grantPermissionSetsToBIRole.sh  -r myAdministrator -p va.author,customScripts.admin

Table 2-1 Permission Sets Available in Oracle Analytics Server

Permission Set Name	Permissions
actio.admin	Administrator permissions to view and modify all jobs within the server instance, irrespective of the job owner. This permission is required to schedule or view the schedules for various objects (for example, data flows).
actio.author	Permissions to view or modify jobs owned by the user.
actio.operator	Permissions to restart jobs. Doesn't include permissions to create jobs.
actio.viewer	View job scheduling permissions. (Not for Classic or Publisher)
bilifecycle.admin	Corresponding functionality not supported in Oracle Analytics Server.
bip.administrator	Publisher administration permissions.
bip.author	Publisher author permissions.
bip.consumer	Publisher consumer permissions.
bisecurity.admin	BI security administration permissions. (Internal API)
bisecurity.author	BI security author permissions. (Internal API)
bisecurity.GBUAdmin	Corresponding functionality not supported in Oracle Analytics Server.
bisecurity.impersonate	BI security impersonate permissions.
bisecurity.lifecycle.admin	Corresponding functionality not supported in Oracle Analytics Server.
customScripts.admin	Advanced analytics custom scripts administration permissions.
dataReplication.access	Data replication access permissions.
infer.administrator	Required social and storage providers configuration permissions.
majel.administrator	Mobile administration permissions.
obips.administrator	BI Presentation Server administration permissions.
obis.administrator	BI Server administration permissions.
obis.author	BI Server author permissions allows a user to send queries to the BI Server (for example, through BIJDBC).
obisch.administrator	BI Scheduler administration permissions. (For Classic)
obisch.author	BI Scheduler author permissions.
oracle.bi.dss.CustomKnowledge.admin	Data preparation custom knowledge administrator permissions.
oracle.bi.dss.CustomKnowledge.consumer	Data preparation custom knowledge consumer permissions.
oracle.bi.dss.SystemKnowledge.admin	Data preparation custom knowledge administration permissions.
oracle.bi.tech.dv.consumer	Data Visualization basic login permissions.
pod.admin	System settings administration permissions.
rdc.admin	Remote data connections for interoperability with Oracle Analytics Cloud. Corresponding functionality not supported in Oracle Analytics Server.
rdc.consumer	Remote data connections for interoperability with Oracle Analytics Cloud. Corresponding functionality not supported in Oracle Analytics Server.
rdc.monitor	Remote data connections for interoperability with Oracle Analytics Cloud. Corresponding functionality not supported in Oracle Analytics Server.
sac.advanced.approle.administrator	Application role user interface management permissions advanced features.
sac.approle.administrator	Oracle Analytics Console administration permissions to manage Users and Roles, Connections, and Virus Scanner configuration pages.
sac.smtpserver.administrator	Oracle Analytics Console administration permissions to manage the SMTP server. Corresponding functionality not supported in Oracle Analytics Server.
sac.snapshot.administrator	Snapshot administration permissions.
semanticmodeler.author	Permissions to manage and deploy semantic models. Note that assigning this permission set allows users to bypass the Oracle BI Server security filters. See Grant Semantic Modeler Permissions Assignments.
va.admin	Data Visualization administration permissions.
va.author	Data Visualization author permissions.
va.interactor	Data Visualization basic interaction permissions.