Physical roles are named references to roles or groups that an administrator has defined on a back-end enterprise security provider. Mapping a logical role to a physical role allows authorization control in the Unwired Server. Replicate these names exactly, so that logical roles can be mapped correctly to the server role.
Physical roles are sourced from the enterprise security repositories. In some cases, the security providers configured by the administrator in Sybase Control Center are not able to reliably extract a list of physical roles from these repositories. In which case, Unwired Platform administrator must collaborate with the security administrator to get a list of physical roles. These must be manually entered in the role mapping stage when creating a security configuration in Sybase Control Center.