Configuring Cognos authentication properties in HCL Marketing Software
If the HCL® Marketing Software and Cognos® applications are installed in different network domains, you must configure Cognos authentication properties in HCL Marketing Software. This action ensures that the HCL Marketing Software applications can communicate with the Cognos applications.
About this task
The setting of the Enable form authentication property indicates that HCL Marketing Software security uses form-based authentication in place of cookies. You set this property to True when either of the following is true:
- HCL Marketing Software is not installed in the same network domain as the Cognos applications.
- Cognos is accessed by using an IP address (within the same network domain) instead of the Fully Qualified Hostname (which is used to access the HCL Marketing Software applications), even if both of the HCL Marketing Software applications and the Cognos installation are on the same computer.
When the value is True, the login process to Cognos Connection passes the login name and password in clear text and is not secure unless Cognos and the HCL Marketing Software are configured to use SSL communication.
However, even with SSL configured, the user name and password appear as clear text in the HTML source code when someone views the source of a displayed report. For this reason, you should install Cognos and HCL Marketing Software in the same network domain.
To configure Cognos authentication properties in HCL Marketing Software, complete the following steps.