User and Group Identities

Essbase, when in EPM System security mode, now enables user and group names to be non unique, if you specify the user or group's provider directory or unique identity attribute.

In MaxL, user and group names can be specified as name@provider or as a unique identity attribute.

The provider is the name of a user directory, such as LDAP or Active Directory, where the external user or group is hosted. The unique identity attribute, or "identity," is a unique string assigned to every user and group. The identity enables Essbase to distinguish between users and groups with the same name across providers.

For more information, see the MaxL topics for USER-NAME and GROUP-NAME in the Oracle Essbase Technical Reference.

Note:

If a user or group name includes the @ character, you must specify the provider as well, or else Shared Services considers the @ character as a delimiter indicating a provider name. For example, if you want to log in user admin@msad which is on a Native Directory provider, you must specify 'admin@msad@Native Directory'.