DESCRIPTION
Like many Cognos customers, you may find that you initially implemented a Series 7 (or earlier) security LDAP to support
your Cognos deployment. For instance, SunONE / iPlanet or a separate MS Active Directory Server from
your corporate AD in order to not compromise the corporate LDAP. With the rollout of Cognos 8.3, Series 7 security
/ Access Manager is no longer required. However, migrating from your existing Cognos LDAP to the enterprise standard
MS AD, for example, could take weeks to months. In addition, all content in each users' My Pages would be lost.
BrightStar Partners (BSP) will conduct a thorough audit of your existing Cognos security
in order to determine usage, membership, etc. In addition, if desired we will migrate
your existing security namespaces and users' My Folders content to a newly desired LDAP
such as Active Directory.
The service is available for all Cognos ReportNet and Cognos 8 BI solutions.
This packaged service is broken into two levels based on your needs. The standard one to three day offering
will provide an analysis of your existing security environment as it relates to Cognos. The more comprehensive Security
Migration will enable you to migrate your Cognos security to the desired enterprise standard.
Security Namespace Audit
DURATION:
One to Three Days
DELIVERABLES:
The following subject areas will be assessed and documented:
- User, group, and role list generation
- Number of policies per user
- What membership does a user belong to
- Number of items in My Folders per user
- Policy count on secured objects
Security Namespace Migration
DURATION:
Time varies pending an initial scoping call
DELIVERABLES:
Everything that the Security Namespace Audit offers plus an LDAP Migration including:
- Automatic matching of source and target namespace
- Migration of all objects with policies
- Migration of My Folders content
- Migration of schedule and job recipients
- Migration of users’ preferences
- Migration of membership
- Migration of ownership
- Summary migration reports (number of policies, number of My Folders)
- Detailed reports available on each user, group, or role migrated
