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Supported Storage Types

The following types of storage are supported for the BI Presentation Services Credential Store:

• XML File System Store

  Credentials and secrets may be stored in a file system store that is an XML file. The syntax of this file is defined by BI Presentation Services. The XML file contains nodes that point to files on disk for certificates and private keys. The file may also contain username and password based credentials, with optional encryption support for passwords. A default XML file store called credentialstore.xml is provided with BI Presentation Services.

• Java Keystore

  A Java keystore may be used for storage of keys and certificates. BI Presentation Services provides a Java component that can extract the certificates and keys stored within the Java keystore file.

• Custom Store

  The BI Presentation Services Credential Store supports storage of credentials and secrets in a custom store. BI Presentation Services accesses the credential data through a text based interchange format.

The XML file credential store, the Java Keystore and the custom store are described in further detail in section Credential Store Storage Types later in the chapter.

Credentials may be stored in multiple stores. At runtime, the BI Presentation Services Credential Store service will extract credentials from all configured locations and build a superset of credentials in an internal credential store for access by the system. For example, some credentials may be loaded from a Java keystore, some from an LDAP-based custom store and some from the BI Presentation Services proprietary XML file format store. In such a situation, the aliases across the distinct storage systems must be unique.