Adding external LDAP for authentication

[shaurya123]

Hi Gurus,

I have the following scenario: We have an LDAP namespace setup in Cognos and our users get authenticated against this namespace.
We are planning to deploy some of our reports on company website and these reports will be accessible to certain set of customers to our company.

We need to authenticate these users,so we are planning of external LDAP implementation for these.
Any ideas or pointers on these?

[MFGF]

...these reports will be accessible to certain set of customers to our company...

What licensing model are you using? If you're on a Named User license model then you will need to get licenses for each of these users.

When you link to the relevant reports from your company website, the Cognos instance will take care of making the calls to authenticate the users in your LDAP. Or do you mean something different?

MF.

[clayton]

hi,

You can configure Cognos Single Sign-on with Multiple Authentication Providers.
You can follow up thsi site http://www.ironsidegroup.com/2013/02/05/configuring-cognos-for-sso-with-multiple-authentication-providers/ to get more useful information.

Best regards
Clayton