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Managing Local Users

FICO® Xpress Insight 5 implements a user authentication and authorization security system.

Users and programs must successfully log in to the Xpress Insight 5 Server with an authenticated set of user credentials before using the system or making requests to the server.

Authorities

Certain authorities are required to invoke actions by the Xpress Insight 5 Server. See Reviewing Preconfigured System Authorities for a full list of pre-configured system authorities and the actions they authorize.

App Authorities are created when an app is imported into Xpress Insight. The app will declare any authorities it requires as custom authorities that will be created in Xpress Insight when the app is imported. These must then be assigned to Authority Groups by the Administrator.

User accounts are associated with one or more authority groups. See Using the Predefined Authority Groups and Users for further information about predefined authority groups.

Note There must be at least one active user with the SYS_USER authority within the application at any one time. If an action is performed that results in there being no active SYS_USER, an error is displayed indicating that the requested action cannot be performed. Examples of this type of action include removing SYS_USER from an authority group or removing an authority group assigned to a user.

Authority to Submit and View Status of a Compute Job

A user must have membership of compute app/APP_ALL authority group and have either of the following authorities to submit a compute job :
  • SCENARIO_NEW
  • SCENARIO_EXECUTE
Similarly for getting the compute job status, the user needs to be permitted to read the scenario in question and have the following authority:
  • SCENARIO_READ
Parent Topic Authentication using Local Account