Restricting administration access and adding an LDAP user to system administrator role

You can restrict the IBM® Cognos® administration access by using the system administrators role in IBM Cognos namespace. You can also add an LDAP user to the system administrator role for IBM Cognos report administration.

1. Log in to IBM Cognos with an LDAP user whom you want to assign the system administrator role.
2. Go to Launch, and click IBM Cognos Administration.
3. Click the Security tab.
4. In the Users, Groups, and Roles section, click Cognos.
5. Navigate to System Administrator role.
6. Click the More link.
7. Under Available actions, click Set properties.
8. Click the Members tab.
9. Click the Add link.
10. Under Available entries section, click an LDAP namespace.
11. Select the Show users in the list check box.
12. Select the user whom you want to assign the system administrator role and make it into selected entries list.
13. Click OK.
14. Select Everyone from the members entry.
15. Click the Remove link to ensure that only the added users can have the system administration access.
16. Click OK.
17. Click the Permissions tab.
18. Verify that the system administrators are listed and they are provided all the permissions. If no permissions are provided, then select the system administrators and grant all the permissions. Complete this step:
    1. Select the Override the access permissions acquired from the parent entry check box to grant the permissions.
19. Click OK.

Results

An LDAP user is added with the system administrator role.

What to do next

Create a role and add LDAP users as the members to that role. See Creating a role and adding LDAP users as members.