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How to Secure Vantage Administration Launch Menu Item

Pierre Seguin
posted this on November 08, 2011 15:21

1. Create a new group to use to secure the 'Vantage Administration' secured function with and afterwards note its ID (available in the properties panel for the group)
2. On each of your IBM Cognos dispatchers locate the following file and open it for editing: [Cognos Root]/templates/ps/portal/system.xml
3. In the above file, locate the section that is added by Vantage Configuration. The section is usually at the end of the file:
<param name="ui_add">
      <CRN_HEADER_OPTIONS>
              <item show="Administrators RSUsers g1 g2">
              ....
Just before the <param name = "ui_add"> line insert the following:
<param name="ui_groups">
        <group id="VA">GROUP_ID</group>
</param>
Where GROUP_ID is the ID of the group you created at the start (e.x. xOkFkYXB0aXZlIEFuYWx5dGljcyBVc2Vycw__)
4. Update the section added by Vantage Configuration to replace the existing groups that have access to Vantage Administration (by default 'Administrators RSUsers g1 g2') and replace with VA (the group you added above):
<param name="ui_add">
      <CRN_HEADER_OPTIONS>
              <item show="VA">
              ....

 

 5. Restart your dispatchers.