From the Reports menu, select Reports Jobs Schedule New Job.

Administering Oracle Reports Services Using Oracle Enterprise Manager 7-9 1. Log in to Oracle Enterprise Manager. 2. Navigate to the component’s home page see Section 7.3, Viewing the Component Topology .

3. From the Reports menu, select Administration Advanced Configuration.

The Advanced Configuration page is displayed.

4. In the Reports Security region, check or uncheck Enable Security.

7.8.1.1 Switching to Oracle Portal Security

The steps for deploying reports in Oracle Portal is the same in 11g Release 1 11.1.1 as in prior releases, as described in Chapter 16, Deploying Reports in Oracle Portal . However, the security mechanism underlying the deployment has changed. In that, authorization is enabled out of the box, but during installation if only Oracle Internet Directory is specified and Portal is not installed, authorization using Oracle Portal is disabled. The default installation of 11g Release 1 11.1.1 accomplishes both authentication and authorization through Oracle Platform Security Services You can continue to use the security features in Oracle Portal from prior releases for backward compatibility. To switch from the new 11g Release 1 11.1.1 Oracle Platform Security Services to pre-11g Oracle Portal metadata repository-based security:

1. Log in to Oracle Enterprise Manager.

2. Navigate to the Reports Server Home page see

Section 7.3, Viewing the Component Topology .

3. From the Reports menu, select Administration Advanced Configuration.

The Reports Server Advanced Configuration page is displayed.

4. In the Reports Security section, check Enable Security, then select Security

features available through Oracle Portal .

5. Click Apply.

7.8.2 Defining Security Policies for Reports

As administrator, you can specify the reports to which a particular userrole has access by creating security policies for each report. In the security policy, you can also specify the server, destination name desname, destination type destype, and other parameters. An authenticated user is authorized against these security policies. To define security policies for reports for Reports Server or Reports Application in-process Reports Server: Note: If you enable Oracle Portal security features, then Oracle Portal must also be configured during installation for authorization to occur: ■ If Oracle Portal is configured during installation, authentication is accomplished using the Oracle Internet Directory and authorization is accomplished using Oracle Portal which stores authorization policies. ■ If Oracle Portal is not configured during installation, authentication is accomplished using the Oracle Internet Directory and authorization does not occur. 7-10 Publishing Reports to the Web with Oracle Reports Services 1. Log in to Oracle Enterprise Manager. 2. Navigate to the component Home page see Section 7.3, Viewing the Component Topology .

3. From the Reports menu, select Administration Manage Reports Security

Policies Reports Policies.

4. Click Create or Edit.

The Security Policy Configuration for Reports page is displayed. 5. Enter appropriate values for the elements on the page to define a security policy for directory access using the descriptions in the Help topic for the page. Click the Help icon on the page to access the page-level help. Perform the following to complete the elements on the page, ■ From the Server Name parameter checkbox, select one or more servers to which the security policy has to be applied. If you want to apply the security policy to all servers, select All. ■ In the Reports Definition Files or Directories parameter, enter one or more report definition file names or the directories for which you are defining security policies. For example, to specify a directory, enter: myreportsruntimereports. Separate multiple entries with a comma ,. ■ Click OK. All fields on this page require a restart to take effect. 6. Run a report as the specified role and other roles to test that security policies for authentication and authorization are enforced as you have defined. For example, run a report from your browser using the following URLs: http:host:portreportsrwservlet?report=report_ name.rdfdestype=cachedesformat=htmluserid=userpasswordmydbserver=ReportsS erver_instancename http:host:portreportsrwservlet?report=report_ name.rdfuserid=userpasswordmydbdestype=filedesformat=pdfdesname=report_ name.pdf where host is the machine where the Oracle Instance is set up port is the OHS main port

7.8.3 Defining Security Policies for Directories

In certain cases, you will want to give a particular user access to multiple related reports. Rather than specify a security policy for each report, you can collect all the reports in a single directory, then specify a security policy for the directory. Again, the security policy is checked when the user provides the user name and password. Note: The security policies defined in Oracle Enterprise Manager are stored in the policy store configured by the user. The idstore contains information on the users and the policy store contains the security policies configured by the user.