1. Managing Security for Oracle Analytics Server
  2. Use Alternative Authentication Providers
  3. Set Up Groups and Users in the Alternative Authentication Provider

Set Up Groups and Users in the Alternative Authentication Provider

Before you use an alternative authentication provider, you must configure suitable groups and users. You then associate them with the application roles within your Oracle Analytics Server Instance. Follow these steps to set up an alternative authentication provider.

Oracle Analytics Server does not require or mandate any specific users or groups, and in a production environment your corporate Identity Store, for example Oracle Internet Directory (OID), would typically already contain users and groups relevant to you organization.

  1. Create groups in the alternative authentication provider similar to the application roles from your Oracle Analytics Server instance. For example, BIServiceAdministrators, BIContentAuthors, BIConsumers.
  2. Create users in the alternative authentication provider, corresponding to the created groups. For example, BISERVICEADMIN.
  3. Assign the users to respective groups in the alternative authentication provider.

    For example, assign BISERVICEADMIN user to the BIServiceAdministrators group.

  4. Make the BIContentAuthors group part of the BIConsumers group in the alternative authentication provider.

    This grouping enables BIContentAuthors to inherit permissions and privileges of BIConsumers.