About Security; Sql Server Database Engine - Symantec IT ANALYTICS SOLUTION 7.0 SP2 - V1.0 Manual

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About security

About security

SQL Server Database Engine

Filtering role-based cubes (advanced)
Distributed architecture considerations (advanced)
This section provides an overview of the security concepts. These concepts help
you to understand the interactions between the application components of IT
Analytics Solution and users. In addition, we included instructions to help you
configure user security for a standard configuration. We also included other
information that is relevant to the advanced security options.
In some instances, you might want to manage a standard security configuration.
In this configuration, all users of IT Analytics are granted the same rights to view
cubes and report information. In this instance, a recommended best practice is
to create a Domain Security Group. Your group can contain all of the users and
groups of users that require access to IT Analytics. For the purpose of this
configuration example, this group is called IT Analytics Users.
Users typically use the Symantec Management Console to access IT Analytics
Solution. Users must have access through a Symantec Management Platform
security role and have at least Symantec Guests role privileges. They must also
have access to the data within the Analysis Services cubes and reporting services
reports to have full functionality.
For the standard security configuration, users in the IT Analytics Users group
already have access to the Altiris Guests Security role in Symantec Management
Platform.
IT Analytics Solution provides configuration and the user functionality that is
hosted inside Symantec Management Platform. It supports all database versions
that Symantec Management Platform 7.0 supports.
You can access the solution-specific configuration information and the user
functionality through the Symantec Management Console. The relational data
that the CMDB hosts acts as the source for the cubes that are installed in SQL
Server Analysis Services.
During the configuration of the Analysis Server section of the Connection page
in the IT Analytics Solution Settings folder, the data source gets created. The data
source is created in the specified SQL Server Analysis Services Database that
inherits the configured settings for the host Symantec Management Platform
database. The data source also connects from Analysis Services to the database