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Credentials and Aliases

Credentials in the credential store are stored along with unique alias values. BI Presentation Services accesses a credential via the alias that is mapped to the credential. Either through configuration or through hard-coded values, BI Presentation Services is aware of the alias it needs to retrieve for the task it must perform. At runtime, BI Presentation Services queries the credential store for the credential that is mapped to the desired alias. For example, when establishing a connection with the BI Scheduler component, BI Presentation Services must provide the BI Scheduler administrator credentials in order to authenticate successfully with BI Scheduler. The credential that is mapped to the alias "admin" is retrieved from the Credential Store and issued by BI Presentation Services for authentication against BI Scheduler.