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marcobalduini
marcobalduini Rank 4 - Community Specialist
edited Aug 13, 2024 5:46PM in Oracle Analytics Cloud and Server

Hi all gurus,

I'm working on OBIEE 12.2.1.2.0

I succesfully embedded a DV analysis in a OBIEE dashboard using the embed content element

and showing the report in "presentation mode":

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I'm trying to figure out if there is a way that let's the users avoid the double login step (1st in OBIEE, 2nd in DV).

We have SSO enabled but it looks that DV doesn't care about it.

Once you run the dashboard containing the DV report user and password are required.

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In alternative it would be nice if someone managed in embedding a read only DV report.

Kind regards,

Marco

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  • Joel
    Joel Rank 8 - Analytics Strategist

    This should help - OBIEE 12c: Enabling LightWeight SSO for OBIEE 12.2.1.2+ | The BI Bandit

    You need to enable lightweight SSO.

  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Rank 2 - Community Beginner

    Beaten by Joel.

    In 12.2.1.2 the lightweightSSO is OFF by default. In 12.2.1.3 and .4 it is ON by default.

    In terms of "we have SSO enabled"....what SSO? How? SSO over an HTTP header with Apache? Kerberos?

    Visual Analyzer runs on /va and most likely you only have /analytics covered!

  • marcobalduini
    marcobalduini Rank 4 - Community Specialist

    thanks Joel, thanks Christian,

    we configured autentication using company active directory (maybe SSO is a not proper definition? LDAP Autentication is better?).

    Users can access OBIEE using theyr network credentials.

    I've read the note on suggested blog and oracle support.

    Just to make my mind clear: are there any possible issues implementing light SSO? I've understood that some link changes will I need to re-setup something?

    Thanks again for your time!

    Marco

  • Gianni Ceresa
    Gianni Ceresa Mod

    Hi Marco,

    If you connected to Active Directory to source users (so the users enter their username/password matching Active Directory in OBIEE) this isn't SSO.

    SSO would mean that users are automatically authenticated thanks to their Windows session or other ways.

    So in your case you just setup an external provider (AD) to source users.

    This means the lightweight SSO is clearly the way to go, you will need it to get a session which is valid for both /analytics and /va .

    When you enable it the login page will change, you will get a new one which just ignore any customization of style you did, and once connected your Data Visualization content will display directly without asking a login again.

  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Rank 2 - Community Beginner

    Aaaahhh yes. Much better. then you need lightweight SSO. and NOT a full-blown SSO.

  • marcobalduini
    marcobalduini Rank 4 - Community Specialist

    Thanks evrybody for your help!

    I will try wit light SSO and come back with some feedback hoping will help someone else!

    Kind regards,

    M

  • marcobalduini
    marcobalduini Rank 4 - Community Specialist

    Hi all,

    tryed the setup on my dev environment.

    On login side evrything works fine. But if I try to logoff from "usual" OBIEE portal (not the new on VA) I got a 404 error.

    It seems the redirect is not working properly.

    Log - off from the VA portal works. Url once out is different (bi-security-login/login instead of bi-security-login/logout),

    tryed also with this but got the same 404 error.

    Any ideas?

    Thanks for your help.

    M

  • Joel
    Joel Rank 8 - Analytics Strategist

    Hi @MarcoB

    As this thread has been closed (answered), you should normally opend a new thread as this is technically another issue but having said that, see article below which descibes amongst other things, how to specify a logoff URL:

    Oracle Support Document 2202011.1 (How To Configure Data Visualization (/va) and Analytics (/analytics) To Have The Same Logon With OBIEE 12.2.1.2 And Higher) can be found at: https://support.oracle.com/epmos/faces/DocumentDisplay?id=2202011.1

    You can specify a custom URL if you want to.