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Created on Aug 30, 2024

enable groups/users update routine using impersonation

on TM1py (Tm1service using Python/Rest API) we are using user's Impersonation, our real user is a prod user that is part of the admin group.


the only part that we are having issues is in the security refresh. the security setting that we have in tm1s.cfg is 5 (Cognos security and TM1 groups security), we are using LDAP Users/groups, so in the standard login using PA front-end automatically get user's groups updated from LDAP every time that the user's login happens:


as reference: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cognos-tm1/10.2.2?topic=ucsct-overview-cognos-security-1

""" When a user attempts to access the Cognos TM1 server, the server validates the passport to authenticate the user. This is done by querying a Cognos server for the identity of the passport. If the passport is valid, the query returns a collection of security and authentication information for the user. This information contains the roles and groups that the user has membership to, as well as the account (user name) associated with the passport. If the user name already exists in Cognos TM1 , their existing membership will be validated against the existing Cognos TM1 groups. If the user does not exist, they are added and assigned to the appropriate user groups on the Cognos TM1 server. """


in this design that we are using in our app, we are not really login the user (no passport), so the above process is not performed because is an impersonation happening behind the scenes, so, this is creating 2 scenarios issues:

1. brand new users are not getting created automatically.

2. existing users are not getting updated their groups automatically.


currently as workaround solution we are requesting users to login in PAW url to refresh security before use the new web UI. we cannot use OIDC in our current architecture.

because that we are requesting this enhancement to add a routine that get the updates from LDAP when impersonation is performed, as it happens in a login: tm1/PA gets those from CA.


thanks!

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