Appendix : Administration : Getting Started with the Business Analytics Server : Integrate Your LDAP Directory with Business Analytics
Integrate Your LDAP Directory with Business Analytics
 
Defining LDAP Connection Configuration
Defining the Authentication Scheme
Defining the Authorization Scheme
Enabling Business Analytics Application Queries for All LDAP Users or Groups for Permissions
In many cases, users and authentication information for an organization is defined in an existing LDAP Directory. You can configure Business Analytics to use your LDAP Directory as the source for user and group information.
Note:  
See the System Requirements for Software AG Products guide for information on Business Analytics support for specific LDAP Directory solutions.
To configure your LDAP Directory as the Business Analytics User Repository:
1. If the Business Analytics Server is not yet started, start Business Analytics.
2. Change Business Analytics configuration to use LDAP as the authentication provider.
a. Edit the userRepositoryApplicationContext.xml file in the MashZoneNG-config folder with any text editor.
Note:  
This folder may be in the default location or in an external location.
b. Remove the comment markers around this statement: <import resource="/userRepositoryApplicationContext-ldap.xml">.
c. Comment out this statement: <import resource="/userRepositoryApplicationContext-jdbc.xml"> property.
Note:  
You cannot use both default authentication and LDAP authentication.
The configuration should look something like this:
<beans>
<!-- Choose between the interal JDBC repository and LDAP comment/uncomment
these two import statements -->
<import resource="/userRepositoryApplicationContext-ldap.xml">
<!-- <import resource="/userRepositoryApplicationContext-jdbc.xml"> -->
...
</beans>
3. Change Business Analytics configuration for the user attribute provider.
a. If it is not already open, edit the userRepositoryApplicationContext.xml file in the MashZoneNG-config folder with any text editor.
Note:  
This folder may be in the default location or in an external location.
b. Find the userAttributeProvider bean:
<bean id="userAttributeProvider"

>
...
c. Remove comment markers around the ldapAttributeProvider bean reference in the providers property list.
The configuration should now look something like this:
<bean id="userAttributeProvider"

>
<property name="providers">
<list>
<ref bean="ldapAttributeProvider"/>
<ref bean="internalUserAttributeProvider"/>
</list>
</property>
</bean>
d. Save your changes to this file.
Important:  
Do not restart the Business Analytics Server until all other LDAP configuration steps have been completed.
4. Define configuration in the Admin Console in Business Analytics Hub for:
*Connections to the LDAP Directory. See Defining LDAP Connection Configuration.
*Authentication mechanisms. See Defining the Authentication Scheme.
*Authorization mechanisms. See Defining the Authorization Scheme.
*All user and group queries used in Business Analytics applications. See Enabling Business Analytics Application Queries for All LDAP Users or Groups for Permissions.
5. Add the built-in Business Analytics user groups to LDAP as new groups and assign at least one user as a Business Analytics administrator.
6. Restart the Business Analytics Server.
Business Analytics now uses LDAP as the user repository. You can now login using the user account assigned in earlier steps as a Business Analytics administrator.
To grant access to other users, add them to an appropriate built-in Business Analytics user group in LDAP.
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