You must use the Cognos® Configuration and Cognos Connection applications to configure the
Cognos BI applications to use the Unica Authentication Provider.
About this task
For distributed systems only: If your
Cognos system has backup Content Managers configured for
failover support, complete this task on each server where Content Manager is installed.To
configure
Cognos to use the Unica Authentication Provider, complete the following
step.
Procedure
- On the computer where the Cognos Content
Manager is running, open Cognos Configuration.
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Select .
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Right-click Authentication and select .
- Complete the fields as follows, and then click OK:
- Name: Unica
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Type: Custom Java Provider
- On the Resource Properties page,
complete the fields as follows and then save your changes:
- NamespaceID: Unica
- Java class name: com.unica.report.adapter.UnicaAuthenticationProvider
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Stop and restart the
Cognos BI service.
On a Windows™ system, sometimes the Cognos interface indicates that the service is stopped when it is not. To
ensure that the service has really stopped, use the Windows
Administrative tools to stop the service.
- Under Local Configuration > Security > Authentication,
right-click Unica and select Test.
If Cognos Connection displays an error, examine the
cogserver.log file in the logs directory of your Cognos installation to determine the problem.
- Log in to Cognos Connection
as follows to verify that the Unica Authentication
provider is configured correctly:
- If you set the Cognos authentication mode in the
Unica configuration properties to
authenticated, log in as the cognos_admin (report system) user.
- If you set the authentication mode in the Unica configuration properties to
authenticatedPerUser, log in as the asm_admin user.
If
Cognos displays the following error, expand the error
message.
The third-party provider returned an unrecoverable exception.
If the expanded message states invalid credentials
, you made an error entering
your user credentials. Try to log in again.
If the expanded message states password expired
, Unica expired the password. Log in to Unica application as the reporting system user and
reset the password. Then, try logging in to Cognos
Connection again.
If you still cannot log in to Cognos Connection, examine
the cogserver.log file in the logs directory of your Cognos installation.
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When you successfully log in to Cognos Connection,
open Cognos Configuration.
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Select .
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Disable anonymous access to
Cognos BI by setting Allow anonymous
access? to false.
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Save your changes.
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Stop and restart the
Cognos service.
If the
Cognos service cannot communicate successfully with the
authentication provider, it cannot start. If the
Cognos service fails to start, verify your configuration by
retracing the steps in this procedure.
Results
Now, anyone who logs in to an application on the Cognos system is authenticated by Unica.
Additionally, the authentication namespace Unica now appears in the
Cognos user interface for logon and security administration
tasks.