In This Section:
About EPM System Security Mode
Analytics Link Projects in Shared Services
Analytics Link user management and security is provided through EPM System security, which uses Shared Services to provide user management, user provisioning, and external authentication definition. Provisioning refers to the process of assigning roles and access permissions to users for Essbase applications.
Products that implement Oracle Enterprise Performance Management System security require access to a Shared Services server running Shared Services client and server software, and to a database dedicated to Shared Services.
Note: | Analytics Link security does not have to be managed by the same instance of Shared Services that manages the security of Financial Management or Essbase. However, if you migrate Financial Management security to Essbase, Analytics Link, Financial Management, and Essbase must use the same Shared Services Server instance. See Migration of Financial Management Security Elements.. |
In Oracle Hyperion Shared Services Console, each Analytics Link Server is registered as a new project named LiveLink@server_name.
For every Analytics Link Server project, two new products are registered in Oracle Hyperion Shared Services:
Every Analytics Link Server project contains two applications:
Repository Manager—One application per project for repository provisions
Bridge Manager—One application for each defined bridge
Repository Manager provisions:
Provisioning Manager—Changes provisions
Administrator—Manages repository items
Only Administrators can add bridges or other components (for example, Data Synchronization Servers, Data Stores, and so on) to the Analytics Link Servers node.
Repository Access—Read-only access to repository items.
To access bridges (as Operator or Bridge Access), users must be provisioned with Repository Access; otherwise, they cannot see bridges and other components.