Cognos 8.4 Security

[carollinho]

Hi All,
I would appreciate if someone can walk me through the steps in setting up user security in Cognos 8.4. It is just too confusing for me. ???
I have set Anonymous = False in Cognos Configuration and remove Everyone in from all the Cognos default groups. Now I need to assign the proper security and roles to the users. Is it better to set up security based on AD groups or Cognos groups? What is the difference and meaning between permission and capabilities?

I would like to set up user groups by department, eg. Sales, Customer Service etc. And each department can only run their own reports. In each department, most users can only run reports but a few can create their own reports. Eventually I would also like to implement data security in reports, depending on their access, users can only see specific information in the reports.

Any input is much appreciated.

Regards,
Carollin

[prasanth83]

Hi

The best way to handle this is to create User Groups in Cognos Namespace. You can add users directly to this group from AD or if you have security policies create groups in AD and add it to the User Groups craeted in Cognos Namespace.

Since you need security based on Departement create seperate User groups for different departments(Sales Report Author, Sales Modeler etc). This will make applying data/object/package security easy. For handling capablities you can create new User Groups in Cognos like say Report Author (Sales RA + CS RA) and apply capabilty(Report Studio Access) for this group.

Thanks
Prasanth