Cognos 10.2 Security Question

[Sheldon]

We are currently running Cognos 8.4.0 and later this year will upgrade to Cognos 10.2.  Our current security is managed by Access Manager (ver. 7.3). running on a Windows 2000 server which we have to move to a Windows 2008 R2 server ASAP.  I believe I read that if we upgrade Access Manager 7.5, it will be compatible with Cognos 10.2 as well as Cognos 8.4 currently and I was looking for confirmation on that if anyone in this forum can confirm.  Secondly, I was wondering if we should also take this opportunity to change our security from Access Manager to LDAP or Active Directory.  Concerns would be -

(1) Would we have to manually input the user information manually if we make this change for a large number of users?
(2) Can the CAMIDs be retained in any of these scenarios?
(3) Would it be a lot more difficult and/or time consuming moving off of Access Manager? 

Thanks Cognoise Community for any suggestions/ideas.

Sheldon

[SomeClown]

Access Manager 7.5 does not include the LDAP backend needed to run Access Manager (the old Sun LDAP provider).  Oracle rescinded the license for Sun LDAP after the acquisition.
The old Sun LDAP software will not install nor run on Windows 2008 R2.  If you need Access Manager on Windows 2008 R2, you will need to find an LDAP backend that can support Access Manager 7.5 (I do not know what this would be - I've never seen it done).

Yes, you should migrate to Active Directory or LDAP provider.  There are tools to help, I suggest googling for additional info.

[Sheldon]

Thank you.  In the move to AD we would hope to have our users retain their login password through an automated, migration process to avoid us manually having to do that as well as being able to retain their CAMIDs in COGNOS..

Sheldon

[ykud]

Just in case, we've recently migrated a fairly big (>1k users) customer from SunOne to AD using BSP security migration tool (http://www.bspsoftware.com/Products/SecurityMigration).