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Administrator Accounts and Password Synchronization

Review this topic if you are using the Oracle Business Intelligence Reporting and Publishing feature or the Oracle Business Intelligence Delivers feature in your Oracle Business Intelligence deployment. To enable functionality for these features requires that the BI Presentation Services component be made aware of the BI Publisher and BI Scheduler Administrator credentials. In addition, BI Publisher must be made aware of the Oracle BI Administrator credentials. The user names and passwords that BI Presentation Services uses to log in and authenticate with other components are stored in the BI Presentation Services Credential Store. BI Publisher is made aware of the Oracle BI credentials by setting integration-related parameters for username and password in the BI Publisher application.

Depending on the passwords policy at your company, you may be required to change administrator passwords on a periodic basis. This topic describes how the Administrator account credentials for the different components are used to enable functionality. Also described is how passwords need to be synchronized across the different BI components when a password change is made.

The following are the Oracle Business Intelligence Administrator accounts:

• Oracle BI Administrator account.

  The default administrator for Oracle BI has username "Administrator". This user is defined in every BI repository (rpd), and cannot be deleted. The username cannot be changed. The password may be changed using BI Administration Tool. Refer to the Oracle Business Intelligence Server Administration Guide for more information on the Oracle BI Administrator account.

• Oracle BI Publisher Administrator account.

  The default username and password for the account on installation is administrator/Administrator. The username cannot be changed. The password may be changed from the BI Publisher application > Admin tab > Users.

• Oracle BI Scheduler Administrator account.

  There is no default administrator account defined upon installation of BI Scheduler. The BI Scheduler Administrator account is specified during initial configuration of the BI Scheduler component after installation. See the Oracle Business Intelligence Infrastructure Installation and Configuration Guide for information on the configuration of BI Scheduler after installation. The Scheduler administrator that you specify must be a user in the BI repository with Administrator group membership assigned.