Introduction

When you use an alternative authentication provider, you typically use administrative tools provided by your provider vendor to set up your users and groups. You can then assign these users and groups to the application roles defined in your BI Service Instance.

See Managing Application Roles and Application Policies Using Fusion Middleware Control.

You continue to use the other Oracle Business Intelligence tools such as, the Oracle BI Administration Tool, Fusion Middleware Control, and the Presentation Services Administration Page to manage the other areas of the security model.

For a current list of supported authentication providers and directory servers to use with Oracle Business Intelligence, you select the authentication provider from the Type list in the Create a New Authentication Provider page. See System Requirements and Certification.

You can configure one or more supported authentication providers, see Configuring Oracle Business Intelligence to Use Alternative Authentication Providers.

If you use a directory server other than the default WebLogic LDAP Server, you can view the users and groups from the other directory server in Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Console. However, you must manage the users and groups in the interface for the directory server being used. For example, if you are using Oracle Internet Directory (OID LDAP), you must use OID Console to create and edit users and groups.