Map Cognos Controller users to Active Directory users

When you use the Active Directory authentication method, you must create an association between the users defined in IBM® Cognos Controller and Active Directory users.

Before you begin

Important: The first user who logs on to IBM Cognos Controller using Active Directory authentication is automatically mapped to the Cognos Controller Administrative User, the named user defined by default in Cognos Controller. Associations between users can be created by any user who has the corresponding application permissions.

For more information about setting user rights and limitations in Cognos Controller, see User Rights in Using Cognos Controller Classic.

About this task

Perform this procedure on the Cognos Controller server.

Procedure

  1. Start IBM Cognos Controller.
  2. From the Maintain menu, click Rights, Users.
  3. Select the user as defined in the Cognos Controller database.
  4. Next to the Active Directory User box, click Show Valid Choices and then select the user from the domain part of the specified base search path.
  5. Click Save.