Creating the Cognos administrator account
Create a new user, or select an existing user in the LDAP directory to serve as the administrator of the IBM® Cognos® BI Server component (you will add the administrator credentials to a configuration script when you deploy Cognos Business Intelligence).
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If you will use an existing LDAP account, take note of the user name and password. For example, if your organization already has a Cognos deployment, you might choose to use the same administrator account with Connections.
If an acceptable account does not exist already, create it now; again, note the credentials for use later.
The Cognos administrator account is specified in the cognos.admin.username setting of the cognos_setup.properties file.
For more information on using an LDAP directory with Cognos, see Configuring IBM Cognos Components to Use an Authentication Provider in the Cognos information center.