How To Configure a Read Only or Read & Deployment Only or Restricted User For Oracle SOA 11g Enterprise Manager Console

If you  would like to create or configure a user, Who only has read and deploy composites permissions (Restricted Access) in EM console please do the following:

Access to the Enterprise Manager console is determined by the role assigned to the user. See Appendix C.1 Roles and Privileges in:

Document Reference: Oracle® Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle Business Process Management Suite 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.4.0) - Part Number E10226-06

Section: C.1.1 Overall Role Functionality Matrix

For a description of the roles defined and the access granted to each role.

Steps to configure the roles described in the document document: (In this case we assign the Monitor role to the user created)

1.  Log in to the Weblogic console.
2. Click on Security Realms -> the name of the realm (myRealm is the default) -> Users and Groups.
3. Click on New to create a new user.
4. Click on the name of the user just created, then Groups and move Monitors from the list on the left to the right. Click Save.
5. Now log in to the Enterprise Manager console with admin privileges, open the SOA folder and right-click on soa-infra and select Security -> Application Roles.
6. Leave the search text empty and click on search button. This will give you a list of all Application Roles.
7. Click on SOAMonitor role to edit it.
8. Scroll down and click on add user. Click on the search button, and a list of available users will be populated. You should see the user just created on the Weblogic console. Move the user to the right and click OK and OK again.
9. Log out, then log in with the user just created.

Additional Info: If you are keen in learning about the roles and their restrictions on weblogic server console please refer:


Document: Oracle® Fusion Middleware Securing Resources Using Roles and Policies for Oracle WebLogic Server 11g Release 1 (10.3.4) - Part Number E13747-04
Section: 6 Users, Groups, And Security Roles