This chapter describes the Oracle Business Intelligence BI Presentation Services Credential Store. This Credential Store is a mechanism by which BI Presentation Services stores and accesses credentials and secrets. The BI Presentation Services Credential Store supports two types of credentials:

• Credentials based on a username and password
• x.509 credentials that use a private key and a public certificate

Certain tasks may require BI Presentation Services to communicate with other BI components (for example, with BI Publisher or BI Scheduler). BI Presentation Services needs to be aware of the user names and passwords that it should use to successfully authenticate against and establish communication with the other components. The credentials that are needed by BI Presentation Services are stored in the BI Presentation Services Credential Store and BI Presentation Services accesses and issues the credentials as appropriate.

The x.509 credentials that consist of private key and public certificate pairs are used by BI Presentation Services for communication when the communication occurs over the Secure Socket Layer (SSL).