You must define a Cognos® user as the Cognos
TM1® administrator who will be used to import Cognos groups into Cognos
TM1.
Important: The initial steps for this configuration must be done with the Cognos
TM1
IntegratedSecurityMode
parameter set to 1. You then change this parameter to use
Cognos Analytics security at a later point in the
steps.
Procedure
-
Log in to Cognos
TM1 as an administrator.
- From the Server Explorer, click Server >
Security > Clients/Groups.
- From the Clients/Groups dialog box, click
Clients > Add New Client.
The Cognos logon dialog box appears.
- Enter your Cognos user ID and password, then
click OK.
- In the Name box, click the namespace to which you are currently
logged in.
Note: Only users from the namespace to which you are logged in can be imported into Cognos
TM1. Other namespaces may appear in the
Name box, but you cannot import users from them.
The contents of the Name box update to display the directories available
on the selected namespace.
- Enable the Show users in the list option.
-
Navigate to the directory containing the Cognos user
you want to define as a Cognos
TM1 administrator. In most circumstances, you will define your
own Cognos user as a Cognos
TM1 administrator, as you must know the Cognos user's ID and password to complete administrative tasks.
- Select the user.
- Click the green arrow icon to move the selected user to the Selected Entries list.
-
Click OK to import the Cognos
user into Cognos
TM1.
The user appears as a new client in the Client/Groups window, but is not assigned to any Cognos
TM1 groups.
- Assign the new user to the ADMIN group and click OK.
-
Shut down the Cognos
TM1 server.
- Open the Tm1s.cfg configuration file in a text editor.
-
Set the IntegratedSecurityMode parameter to indicate that the server should use IBM®
Cognos authentication. The exact parameter value depends on
the specific Cognos
TM1 components you are using:
- If you are not using the Cognos
TM1 Applications component, set the parameter to
4.
IntegratedSecurityMode=4
- If you are using Cognos
TM1 Applications with Cognos security, set the parameter to 5 to support user groups from both Cognos
TM1 and Cognos.
IntegratedSecurityMode=5
- Save and close Tm1s.cfg.
-
Restart the Cognos
TM1 server.