Monitoring Server element roles
Updated: 2009-04-30
PerformancePoint Monitoring Server Web Service is organized into dashboard elements that include key performance indicators (KPIs), scorecards, reports, data sources, and other indicators. Dashboard elements are combined with filters, which are then presented to users on a Web page based on Windows SharePoint Services.
Dashboard element roles grant access to data and tasks. Permissions to access these elements are assigned on a per-element basis. Therefore, roles are specific to each KPI, scorecard, report, data source, or other indicator.
There are two element roles: Editor and Reader.
Editor
The Editor role enables members to modify all data related to the KPI, data source, report, or scorecard to which the role's permissions apply. When a user who is a member of the Monitoring Server Administrator role or Data Source Manager role creates an element, that user is automatically added to the Editor element role.
Important
User access permissions to a data source need to be considered carefully. Any user who is a member of the Data Source Manager role can create a connection to any of the resources that the application pool user has access to. An editor can change the connection information to access a source of the same type that might not have been intended by the data source manager. This consideration is important when giving a user permission to modify or create an ODBC connection, which can be modified to access many of the resources of a computer or network, including accessing local files.
Reader
The Reader role grants members read-only access to a specific dashboard element. Members can view the elements of a dashboard in Dashboard Designer.
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