Disable Anonymous Access to IBM Cognos Components

Portal Services uses single signon for authentication. If anonymous logon is enabled in IBM® Cognos® components, Portal Services logs all portal users as anonymous. You must ensure that anonymous access is disabled in IBM Cognos components for single signon in Portal Services to be successful. However, you can test the Portal Services connections using anonymous logon to ensure that the portlets are working in the other portal.

If Portal Services fails to authenticate a user, the user receives an error message at the other portal.

Procedure

  1. Start IBM Cognos Configuration.
  2. In the Explorer window, under Security > Authentication, click Cognos.
  3. In the Properties window, ensure that Allow anonymous access is set to False.
  4. From the File menu, click Save.
  5. Repeat steps 1 to 4 on all servers where you installed IBM Cognos components.
Parent topic: Configuring Security for Portal Services