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VijayDC

Oracle Analytics server 2023, Oracle DB 19c, Oracle Linux server 8, MS Azure AD for user Authentication want to configure in Weblogic console.
Oracle HTTP Server
I will be configuring SSL with our company CA signed certificates.

requirement 1:
We want to configure application URL as "companyName.com/analytics" so it redirects to analytics or DV URL (back end using port 80 for http & 443 for https) please suggest steps or point to any document.
Requirement 2: Want to configure SSO for OAS using OHS - please share any document for this.
Requirement 3: We want to embed visuals and Analysis/dashboards in company web pages internet facing (with and without VPN also)

I went through couple of blogs.. little confusing for starters.. Below is something I found interesting and very good blog for GO URL and SSO. I guess I can try similar config with OHS,,,,
https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2020/11/using-the-go-url-in-oas/

PortalPages as mentioned below blog seems something can be done if supported in OAS
https://obieeil.blogspot.com/2013/03/embeding-obiee-portalpages-vs.html

Before I try on my environment I like to take expert opinion/suggestions … please suggest steps or point to any document.

Please let us know if you require any other information.

Thank you in Advance

Vijay

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Gianni Ceresa

The issue is that your 3 requirements are by far not beginners-friendly: they are advanced configurations (the 1st one probably being the easier as it's mostly done outside OAS).

Your 1st requirement sounds like you are in an Enterprise Deployment scenario: there is a doc covering that at https://docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/bi/analytics-server/enterprise-deploy-oas/installing-and-configuring-oracle-http-server.html#GUID-6D1AC6B0-EA4B-4413-AD6D-B21A30C3C441

Keeping it simple, it's "just" a proxy config in Oracle HTTP Server (which is just like Apache HTTP Server with an extra touch of Oracle). If you have SSL and you use the Oracle HTTP Server as SSL endpoint (to do SSL offloading) and don't have any SSL in OAS, then you must set the headers mentioned there or some pieces of OAS will misbehave because they will get confused between SSL and not-SSL.

But the doc covers all the steps (and more because it's part of the Enterprise Deployment).

Your 2nd requirement is a configuration which is always a "surprise" in most installation: it's meant to be simple, but because of the many ways companies do implement SSO, it always become an adventure. But in MOS there are various documents providing step-by-step instruction and overviews of the possible SSO scenarios.

And the 3rd one is covered in the blog post linked (the Rittman Mead blog post is also doing the same things if I don't remember wrongly, didn't read to be fair as there is the Oracle one being more official).

But all these things are not beginners tasks, they also require to know networking, proxy, headers etc.

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Gianni Ceresa

Use your HTTP server as proxy in front of OAS, the HTTP server can have whatever domain/port you want, and will forward requests to OAS IP/domain & port.
Did you check the official doc? It does cover various solution, for SSO you first need to decide what SSO solution you want to use. If you look in MOS ( https://support.oracle.com/ ) there are a few step-by-step documents, including some "wizards" generating a configuration for the SSO. The SSO is also defined the HTTP server.
Once again the doc is the key, the solution exposed in the blog posts, one doesn't work anymore (nquser and nqpassword in the URL isn't supported anymore), OAS supports an anonymous login documented by Oracle ( https://blogs.oracle.com/analytics/post/oas-anonlogin ) which is also done at the HTTP server level

VijayDC

@Gianni Ceresa

Thanks for the reply ..

Steve F-2

@VijayDC

For point 2, as Gianni mentioned, see:

Configure custom SSO environments

There are also a variety of MOS documents for various SAML and Kerberos, HTTP header/cookie federation type SSO implementations. These search terms will find them: Oracle Analytics Server SSO Configuring Configuration, or SSO and restrict to OAS product.

Please mark Gianni's response as 'yes' to close the thread, since he pointed you how to find the documentation.

VijayDC

Oracle documentation is not useful/helpful for my scenario, Honestly Oracle documentation is not for beginners. there are lot of combinations and links pointing to different documents.

I'm not expecting some one to give me step by step instructions. but
someone (who might have implemented) can provide few very high-level pointers with common combinations.

Gianni Ceresa

The issue is that your 3 requirements are by far not beginners-friendly: they are advanced configurations (the 1st one probably being the easier as it's mostly done outside OAS).

But the doc covers all the steps (and more because it's part of the Enterprise Deployment).

But all these things are not beginners tasks, they also require to know networking, proxy, headers etc.

VijayDC

@Gianni Ceresa
Thank you for the reply…

But all these things are not beginners tasks, they also require to know networking, proxy, headers etc.
yes… working on understanding all these …

Steve F-2

@VijayDC - Most of the MOS notes, are step-by-step for req 2, as well as the blogs mentioned for req 3

The MOS documents are also listed here, if you do not want to search MOS, but this link can potentially miss newer content

https://community.oracle.com/products/oracleanalytics/kb/articles/64-helpful-oracle-analytics-knowledge-content