Tuesday, March 26, 2013

HOW TO CREATE USERS IN BAM


HOW TO CREATE USERS:

Oracle SOA Platform – BAM (Business Activity Monitoring) - Version: 11.1.1.3.0 and later   [Release: 11gR1 and later ]
Information in this document applies to any platform.
Goal

How to create specific users with roles in BAM so that users can see only view or create the report and not act as Administrators?


Solution

Enterprise Manager manages the Application Policies for Oracle BAM.

It is pre-configured with 4 roles for Oracle BAM application:

Administrator: Has access to all features
Report Architect: Has access to features for creating data objects and reports
Report Creator: Has access to features for creating reports
Report Viewer: Has access to features for viewing reports


Create a User and a group in the Weblogic Console by following the steps provided in the following document:

Oracle Fusion Middleware Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Console Online Help
11g Release 1 (10.3.5)
Part Number E13952-05, Section "Managing Users and Groups"

Assign the user this group
Open the Enterprise Manager start page in your web browser
Click on BAM / OracleBAMServer
Right Click on OracleBAMServer / Security / Application Policies
Click on the blue button next to the text box labeled permission to view the pre-configured polices:
Right Click on OracleBAMServer / Security / Application Roles
Click on the same blue button next to Role Name to view the pre-configured Roles
Click on a RoleName e.g. ‘Report Viewer’
Click on the green Plus sign Add Role under Members
An Add Role dialog box appears. Select Group in the Role Type and click the blue-green arrow button
This will show all the Groups created in WebLogic Console
Select the group that should be assigned to the role (e.g., the group created in step 1) and move it to the Selected Roles list
Click Ok.