Defining user access to IBM Cognos LifeCycle Manager

You can grant multiple users access to the Cognos LifeCycle Manager web application.

Before you begin

Before you can add users, the Cognos LifeCycle Manager web application must be stopped.

About this task

Users can sign in to Cognos LifeCycle Manager by using the Cognos administrator user ID and password that were defined during the installation process.

Alternatively, you can define new users by adding their credentials to the server.xml file. The actions that a user can perform depend on the following user types.

Table 1. User types in Cognos LifeCycle Manager
User type Description
User Users can see only the results of a project. They can't run or create projects, and they can't create or view IBM Cognos server connections.
Project administrator Project administrators can create and run projects and tasks, and see the results. They can't create or view IBM Cognos server connections.
System administrator System administrators can create and run projects and tasks, and see the results. They can also create or view IBM Cognos server connections.

You define users in server.xml file by adding <user> elements. Users must be added to a <user group> element. User groups must be linked to a user type by adding them to one of the available <security-role> elements. By default, two user groups exist in server.xml. You can add system administrators to the admins group, and you can add users to the users group.

Procedure

  1. If necessary, stop the Cognos LifeCycle Manager web application.
  2. On the computer where Cognos LifeCycle Manager is installed, go to the install_location\wlp\usr\servers\lcm folder.
  3. Open server.xml in a text editor.
  4. In the basicRegistry element, create users and passwords, and if needed, user groups.
    For example, 
    <user name="name1" password="pwd" />
  5. Add the user as a member of a group.
    For example, 
    <group name="users">
    <member name="name1"/>
</group>
  6. If you created a new user group, in the <application-bnd> element, add the new user group to one of the security-role elements.
  7. Save the server.xml file.
  8. Start the Cognos LifeCycle Manager web application.