About using single sign-on

Integrating with single sign-on (SSO) allows Studio users to be logged in to Big Data Discovery automatically once they are logged in to your SSO system.

Note that once Big Data Discovery is integrated with SSO, you cannot create and edit users from within Big Data Discovery. All users get access to Big Data Discovery using their SSO credentials. This means that you can no longer use the default administrative user provided with Big Data Discovery. You will need to make sure that there is at least one SSO user with an Administrator user role for Big Data discovery.

The officially supported method for integrating with SSO is to use Oracle Access Manager, with an Oracle HTTP Server in front of the Big Data Discovery application server. While you may be able to use another SSO tool that supports passing the user name in an HTTP header, you would have to use the documentation and support materials for that tool in order to set up the integration.

The information in this guide focuses on the details and configuration that are specific to the Big Data Discovery integration. For general information on installing Oracle Access Manager and Oracle HTTP Server, see the associated documentation for those products.