Database users authentication obiee 11 g

1. DATABASE USER AUTHENTICATION OBIEE 11G
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2. Here I am going to demonstrate where on set of users present in the LDAP server
as well as another set of users and passwords present in an External Oracle
Database Table (here “SECURITYTABLE”) can login into
thehttp://localhost:9704/analytics, the Oracle Analytics
Create the oracle database table for external authentication as shown
below:
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6. Open the “Oracle BI Administration Tool” and “Open Offline”
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13. Right click the “ORCL” connection in the “Physical” layer pane and select
“New Object” -> “Connection Pool…”
Enter “SECURITY” for the “Name:” field.
Select “ODBC 3.5″ for the “Call interface:”
Select “ORCL” for the “Data source name:”
Enter sh, sh for the “User name:” and “Password:” fields respectively.
Then click the “OK” button.
Enter “sh” in the “Confirm Password” window and click the “OK” button .
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16. Right Click the “SECURITY” connection pool in the “Physical” layer pane
and select “Import Metadata”
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19. Right Click on the “SECURITYTABLE” and select “View Data…”.
On the “Select Connection Pool you want to use for database ORCL”
window, select “SECURITY” then click on “Select” button
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21. On the Administration Tool Menu select “Manage” -> “Variables…”
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24. On the “Session Variable Initialization Block” window click the “Edit Data
Source…” button.
In the “Session Variable Initialization Block Data Source” window select
“Database” for the “Data Source Type:” field
Select the “Default initialization string” button and enter the below SQL:
SELECT GRP, SALESREP, USERNAME, 2 FROM SECURITYTABLE WHERE USERNAME =
':USER' AND PWD = ':PASSWORD'
Click the “Browse…” button and in the “Select Connection Pool” window
select “SECURITY” the click the “Select” button as show below:
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25. Then click “OK” button to close the “Session Variable Initialization Block
Data Source” window.
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26. In the “Variable Target” section click on the “Edit Data Target…”
In the “Session Variable Initialization Block Variable Target” window click
on “New…” button.
In the “Session Variable” window enter “GROUP” for “Name:” field and
click on the “OK” button
Click “Yes” on the Warning pop-up window.
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29. Similarly create all 4 Session Variables: GROUP, DISPLAYNAME, USER and
LOGLEVEL as show below.
Click on the “OK” button to close the window.
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32. Finally on the “Session Variable Initialization Block” window enter
“Security” for the “Name:” field.
Make sure “Required for authentication” check box is NOT Selected.
Verify entries as in below screenshot and Click “OK” button
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34. On the “Variable Manager” select “Action” -> “Close”.
On the “Administration Tool” window menu select “Save”.
Select “Yes” to the “Do you wish to check global consistency?” and make
sure no Warnings or Errors are shown.
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37. Now go to the URL: http://locahost:9704/analytics and login with the
admin user “weblogic” .
Goto “Administration” on the top menu and under “Security” section
select “Manage Catalog Groups”
Click the “+” icon with “Create a new catalog group” tooltip.
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44. Now goto the URL: http://localhost:7001/em to deploy the latest
SampleAppLite.rpd that we modified above.
Goto the “Farm_bifoundation_domain” -> “Business Intelligence” ->
“coreapplication” on the left pane.
On the right pane select “Deployment” -> “Repository” tabs.
The click on the “Lock and Edit Configuration” link above the
“Deployment” tab.
Click the “Close” button once the pop-up window appears.
Select the “Browse…” button and goto the location of the
SampleAppLite.rpd file and click on “Open”.
Enter the “Repository Password” and “Confirm Password” entries as
“Admin123″.
Then click the “Apply” button on the top right.
Then click on the “Activate Changes” link.
Click “Close” button one “Activate Changes – Completed Successfully”
show up.
Then click on the “Restart to apply recent changes” link.
After the “Overview” screen show up click on the blue “Restart” button.
Click the “Yes” button when “Are you sure you want to restart all BI
components?” shows up
Click on the “Close” button one the “Restarted Successfully” shows up.
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58. Now we are ready to test the LDAP and External Table authentication.
Goto the URL: http://localhost:9704/analytics and login as adminstrator
user “weblogic”
Select “New” -> “Analysis” -> “Sample Sales” in the “Home” section.
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62. Select two columns from the “Subject Areas” section as show below: i.e “Per
Name Year” and “Revenue” columns.
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63. Click on the “Save Analysis” icon and browse to “Shared Folders” -> “11g
Shared” (if not there you can create one”
Enter “Revenue Sales” for the “Name” Field and click the “OK” button.
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64. Now goto the “Catalog” tab and select “More” -> “Permissions” for the
“Revenue Sales” .
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65. On the “Permission” window select the “BI Consumer Role” and click the
” X ” icon to delete that permission.
Click on the ” + ” icon to add a new permission.
On the “Add Application Roles, Catalog Groups and Users” window select
“Catalog Groups” for the “List” field and click the “Search” button.
Select the “SalesRep” on the left side and click the blue ” > ” icon to move
it to “Selected Members” on the right side as show below:
Click the “OK” button.
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68. Now “Sign Out” as the “weblogic” user and login giving “User ID” and
“Password” as “USER1” and “USER1” respectively.
Click the “Catalog” tab browse to “Shared Folders” -> “11GSHARED”
folder.
On the Right click “Open” on the “Revenue Sales”.
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