Cognos Namespace Migration
Motio™'s Namespace Migration product facilitates the migration of Cognos Content and configuration from one Authentication Namespace to another.
When your Cognos Content is at stake, trust the experts to ensure a safe, secure, and complete migration. The Motio™ Namespace Migration product can make namespace migration a seamless and worry free process.
Motio™ asks the key questions to help devise and implement a roadmap specific to your migration needs:
- What mapping method will be used?
- Where will groups reside?
- Which users will be migrated?
- What about orphans?
- Which of the 140 object types do you want to migrate?
By utilizing Motio™'s Namespace Migration tool, you can automate an otherwise time-intensive and error prone process.
Whether you’re migrating from Series 7 Access Manager to LDAP or Active Directory, consolidating multiple existing Active Directory servers, or migrating user content from development to test, the Motio™ ’s Namespace Migration service seamlessly handles the move.
About Cognos Security
In IBM Cognos, an authentication provider provides access to a (generally external) authentication source (e.g. Series 7 Access Manager, LDAP, Active Directory, etc). By configuring an authentication provider in IBM Cognos, you define an “authentication namespace.”
Each user, group and role in an authentication namespace has a unique identifier in Cognos called a "CAMID".
Virtually all Cognos content will have references to one or more CAMIDs. Examples of this include:
- most objects in Cognos have :
- an owner property which will refer to the CAMID of the owning user.
- a policy set, which lists the CAMIDs of users, groups and roles are entitled to the Cognos object (and their level of access)
- all content in a user's My Folders area is associated with a user's CAMID
- each user's preferences and portal tabs are associated with their CAMID
- Framework Model Object Security - modelers may restrict access to Namespaces, Query Subjects and Query Items based on groups / roles (references their CAMID).
- Transformer Models may have Custom Views to enforce security on cubes. These custom views are configured as visible to certain users, groups & roles (references their CAMID).
When you migrate to a different authentication namespace, all users, groups and roles from that new namespace will have different CAMIDs (even if they are semantically the same user, group or role).
Motio™ Namespace Migration offers the following:
- Audit all objects
- Create and display a policy matrix
- Display the permissions and policies for each user on each object
- Display the members of each Cognos group and role
- Display all objects within a user's My Folders
- Locate and match users in the target namespace
- Migrate all My Folders content
- Migrate all Preferences (locale, output format, rows per page, etc.)
- Migrate all Portal Pages
- Migrate all Jobs & Schedules
- Migrate all Memberships
- Migrate all Policies & Permissions
- Migrate all Capabilities
