You must configure Cognos® authentication
properties in HCL®
EMM so
the HCL
EMM applications
can communicate with the Cognos applications
if the HCL
EMM and Cognos applications are installed
in different network domains.
Procedure
Complete the following tasks to configure Cognos authentication properties in HCL
EMM:
- Log in to HCL
EMM as the
platform_admin user.
- Select Settings > Configuration.
- Expand Reports > Integrations > Cognos version .
- Set the value of the Authentication Mode property
by selecting either authenticated or authenticatedPerUser,
as appropriate for your system.
- For "authenticated" only. Verify that the
values in the Authentication user name and Authentication
datasource name fields match those of the user and data
source you created in the previous task, Creating the reports system user.
- Set the value of the Enable form authentication property.
This setting indicates that HCL
EMM security
uses form-based authentication in place of cookies. You set this property
to True when either of the following is true.
- When the HCL
EMM is
not installed in the same network domain as the Cognos applications.
- When Cognos is accessed
by using an IP address (within the same network domain) instead of
the Fully Qualified Hostname (which is being used to access the HCL
EMM applications),
even if both the HCL
EMM applications
and the Cognos installation
are on the same computer.
However, when the value is True,
the login process to Cognos Connection
passes the login name and password in clear text and therefore is
not secure unless Cognos
and the HCL
EMM are
configured to use SSL communication.
Even with SSL configured,
the user name and password appear as clear text in the HTML source
code when you "view source" in a displayed report. For this reason,
you should install Cognos and HCL
EMM in the
same network domain.
Note: When the
Enable
form authentication property is set to
True,
the
Authentication mode property automatically
behaves as though it were set to
authenticated,
and you must complete the step that is required for this mode, described
in
Creating the reports system user.
- Save the new settings.
- For "authenticatedPeruser" only. Assign the
ReportUser role to the default asm_admin user. You complete this step
so that you can test reports: you need a user with access to both
the HCL
EMM application
and report data. The platform_admin user does not have access to the HCL
EMM application
features.