Creating tenants in IBM Cognos Administration

System administrators must create a tenant in IBM® Cognos® Administration before the tenant users can access IBM Cognos Business Intelligence.

Before you begin

Multitenancy must already be enabled in IBM Cognos Configuration.

About this task

The system administrator creates the tenant object in IBM Cognos Administration and assigns a unique tenant ID to the object. The tenant IDs are defined in the authentication provider, such as LDAP, Active Directory, or a custom authentication provider.

For more information, see Configuring multitenancy.

Procedure

  1. In IBM Cognos Administration, click the Multitenancy tab.
  2. On the toolbar, click the New Tenant icon New tenant icon.
  3. Specify the Name and Tenant ID parameters. Other parameters on this page are optional.
  4. Click Finish.

Results

The tenant name is displayed on the Multitenancy tab. If you want to update the tenant settings later, from the tenant Actions drop-down menu, click Set properties and change the settings on the General tab. For example, you can change the tenant name.

Parent topic: Tenant administration