security - Rittman Mead

Handling Fine-Grained Data Visualization Permissions in Oracle Analytics Cloud

The November 2023 Update for Oracle Analytics Cloud came out a few weeks ago, and it includes a new feature to handle permissions at a finer grain than previously possible in Data Visualization. Administrators are no longer forced to choose between granting their users excessive power, or totally disabling access

sdlc

Source Control and Automated Code Deployment Options for OBIEE

It's Monday morning. I've arrived at a customer site to help them - ironically enough - with automating their OBIEE code management. But, on arrival, I'm told that the OBIEE team can't meet with me because someone did a release on the

Creating Security Profiles in ODI 12c

As a newcomer to ODI I enjoy hearing from the more seasoned veterans about common situations they encounter on projects. One of these recurring situations (especially if the company has a very small dev team) is the lack of security. I will not discuss how Oracle improved security by usingpublic/

odi

OBIEE, Big Data Discovery, and ODI security updates - October 2016

Oracle release their "Critical Patch Update" (CPU) notices every quarter, bundling together details of vulnerabilities and associated patches across their entire product line. October's was released yesterday [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2016-2881722.html], with a few entries of note in the analytics & DI

Technical

Security patches released for OBIEE 11.1.1.7/11.1.1.9, and ODI DQ 11.1.1.3

Oracle issued their quarterly Critical Patch Update [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujul2015-2367936.html] yesterday, and with it notice of several security issues of note: * The most serious for OBIEE (CVE-2013-2186 [https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2013-2186]) rates 7.5 (out of 10) on

Technical

Deploying Oracle BI Mobile HD within Good, Oracle OMSS and Other Secure MDM Containers

A few months ago ODTUG announced their ODTUG Mobile Day in Utrecht, Netherlands [http://www.odtug.com/mobile_day_utrecht] and asked if I’d like to put forward an abstract for a presentation. Something that’s been on my mind for a while is the issues some of our

Technical

Connecting OBIEE11g on Windows to a Kerberos-Secured CDH5 Hadoop Cluster using Cloudera HiveServer2 ODBC Drivers

In a few previous posts and magazine articles [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/issue-archive/2014/14-sep/o54ba-2279189.html] I’ve covered connecting OBIEE11g to a Hadoop cluster [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2014/01/obiee-11-1-1-7-cloudera-hadoop-hiveimpala-part-2-load-data-into-hivehcatalog-analyze-using-impala/] , using OBIEE 11.1.1.7 and Cloudera CDH4 and CDH5 as the examples. Things

Technical

Why Oracle Big Data SQL Potentially Solves a Big Issue with Hadoop Security

Oracle announced their Big Data SQL product a couple of weeks ago, which effectively extends Exadata’s query-offloading to Hadoop data sources. I covered the launch a few days afterwards [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2014/07/taking-a-look-at-the-new-oracle-big-data-sql/], focusing on how it implements Exadata’s SmartScan on Hive and NoSQL

Oracle BI Suite EE

Exploring OBIEE Web Services through Python

My very first blog post for Rittman Mead [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2011/11/calling-bi-publisher-11g-web-services-from-bpel/] was on the subject of Web Services in BI Publisher 11g, and now I want to return to the subject here, looking at the Web Services of OBIEE itself. Web Services are basically a

Oracle BI Suite EE

Make Use of OBIEE's Command Line Tools with Reduced Exposure of Plain Text Passwords

Introduction We all love a good commandline utility. It gives us that warm feeling of control and puts hairs on our chests. Either that, or it means we can script the heck out of a system, automate many processes, and concentrate on more important matters [http://phoboslab.org/ztype/]. However,

Oracle BI Suite EE

Tips and Tricks for the OBIEE linux sysadmin

As well as industry-leading solution architecture, consultancy and training on Oracle BI, here at Rittman Mead we also provide expert services in implementation and support of such systems. In this blog I want to share some of the things I find useful when working with OBIEE on a Linux system.

Technical

Configuring SSL on OEID v3.0

Oracle Endeca Information Discovery (OEID) version 3.0 now supports secure connection over HTTP, something useful for when implementing Endeca in a production environment where its expected that all security risks been controlled. Sending requests and data over unsecured HTTP is generally considered one of the more higher-risk vulnerabilities, with

Technical

OBIEE / AD integration - [OBI-SEC-00022] Identity found ... but could not be authenticated

A quick blog post to record for future Googlers a problem I encountered today. I was configuring OBIEE 11.1.1.6 to use Microsoft Active Directory (MSAD) as an Authentication Provider, following the instruction's in Mark's blog post [http://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2012/03/