Is it possible to create an authentication in cognos installed in server machine

[vignesvar]

Hi experts,
  I'm working cognos 10.2. It is installed in server machine CentOS as separate machine not LDAP or other. I want to create an authentication for all. Here no administrator for cognos. How to made this authentication for existing and new user or group?

It is possible to create an authentication while run the report directly using URL?

Thank you in Advance.

[MFGF]

Hi experts,
  I'm working cognos 10.2. It is installed in server machine CentOS as separate machine not LDAP or other. I want to create an authentication for all. Here no administrator for cognos. How to made this authentication for existing and new user or group?

It is possible to create an authentication while run the report directly using URL?

Thank you in Advance.

Hi,

First, an observation. CentOS isn't officially a supported platform to run Cognos BI on. I know it is based on a RHEL distro, but officially it's not on the supported platforms list from what I can see. Do you really want to have a setup you can't get support for if things go wrong?

Do you honestly mean there is no administrator for Cognos?? Who installed it? Who is responsible for it? Who fixes it if things go wrong in the architecture?

Authentication in Cognos is provided by an external authentication provider - Cognos 10 BI does not have its own inbuilt authentication provider. The rationale behind this is (I assume) that businesses will use their existing authentication provider and point their Cognos instance at it. Does your business have AD or LDAP or some way of centrally managing users and passwords? If so, you should probably use that same technology to deliver Cognos authentication.

Your challenge is you need someone with admin skills to configure your Cognos instance to point to the provider. If you don't have an administrator, you're going to need to figure out how...

MF.

[vignesvar]

Hi MF,
Thank you very much for your quick response, Our concern no AD and LDAP because of linux. Our network administrator was install cognos with the help of IBM experts. Please let me if any alternative source to secure cognos report.

Cheers,

[MFGF]

...no AD and LDAP because of linux. Our network administrator was install cognos with the help of IBM experts. Please let me if any alternative source to secure cognos report.

Hi,

What makes you think LDAP isn't available on Linux? As far as I can see, there are a number of options you could try, including OpenLDAP and ApacheDS?

Cheers!

MF.

[vignesvar]

Hi MFGF,
Can you give some details about ApacheDS?

[MFGF]

Hi MFGF,
Can you give some details about ApacheDS?

Here's a link to the ApacheDS page
https://directory.apache.org/apacheds/

You would also need Apache Directory Studio to manage the content in ApacheDS
https://directory.apache.org/studio/

If you're interested in an alternative, here's the link for OpenLDAP
http://www.openldap.org/

MF.

[vignesvar]

Hi MFGF,
Thank you very much for this suggestion.

Cheers,
VIGNESVAR