Which groups are associated with a domain

January 20, 2009, 08:06 AM

Pascal Bellerose

Hi,

I'd like to know if there is a way to find out which groups are associated with a specific domain in MR Admin.

My problem is that we were two admins for the R&D period and now I am the single admin on the server and I figured out that some groups may be doubled.

So I'd like ot list the groups per domain and then restructure the whole thing.

Thanks,

January 20, 2009, 10:08 AM

Francis Mariani

Pascal,

You can view the domains and groups in MRE User Administration (but then you already know that).

You may also create flat file extracts of the MRE information by executing Drive:\ibi\WebFOCUS76\utilities\mrextract.bat (this produces flat files containing data about domains and programs - I think it will also do domains, groups and users.

Alternatively, you can browse file Drive:\ibi\WebFOCUS76\basedir\user.htm, which is where all the domain, group and user information is stored.

I hope this helps.

Francis

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January 21, 2009, 09:30 AM

ChannyS

If you set up MR to use RDBMS then you could query the WF_GRPDOMTB table.

January 21, 2009, 09:55 AM

Francis Mariani

I am very curious about where "set up MR to use RDBMS" is documented. I have found only two links on Tech Support that discuss "WF_GRPDOMTB":

How to setup Managed Reporting REALM Driver for MYSQL

How to migrate users when using Realm Driver with RDBMS

Francis

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January 21, 2009, 10:35 AM

ChannyS

I found the following:

Configuring Managed Reporting Administered RDBMS Authorization

Configuring the RDBMS Option

Using the Realm Driver to Configure External Authorization

January 21, 2009, 10:47 AM

Francis Mariani

Thanks very much Chanah. Too bad the domain information cannot also be stored in a RDBMS table.

Francis

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January 21, 2009, 10:55 AM

ChannyS

What type of domain information are you looking for?

January 21, 2009, 11:03 AM

Francis Mariani

a list of reports in the domain - report name and fex name for example. The stuff that's in the domain-name.htm file.

Francis

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January 21, 2009, 11:07 AM

ChannyS

Yup - I'm with you on that. And that's why we all appreciate the master file you once provided... Thanks!

January 21, 2009, 01:25 PM

Francis Mariani

I'll have to make sure that the Master file still works for 7.6

Francis

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January 21, 2009, 01:27 PM

ChannyS

I believe that someone after you posted an update for 7.6 and it seemed to work well.

January 22, 2009, 07:58 AM

Pascal Bellerose

quote:
Originally posted by Francis Mariani:
Pascal,

You can view the domains and groups in MRE User Administration (but then you already know that).

You may also create flat file extracts of the MRE information by executing Drive:\ibi\WebFOCUS76\utilities\mrextract.bat (this produces flat files containing data about domains and programs - I think it will also do domains, groups and users.

Alternatively, you can browse file Drive:\ibi\WebFOCUS76\basedir\user.htm, which is where all the domain, group and user information is stored.

I hope this helps.

Thanks for the info. I will look into it.

January 23, 2009, 02:50 PM

Pascal Bellerose

quote:
Originally posted by Francis Mariani:

You may also create flat file extracts of the MRE information by executing Drive:\ibi\WebFOCUS76\utilities\mrextract.bat (this produces flat files containing data about domains and programs - I think it will also do domains, groups and users.

I tried mrextract.bat and it didn't gave much more than MRadmin console.

quote:

Alternatively, you can browse file Drive:\ibi\WebFOCUS76\basedir\user.htm, which is where all the domain, group and user information is stored.

That didn't help very much... Tedious task to analyze this document.

it's a bummer that IBI did not build a cross-reference tool.

January 23, 2009, 03:09 PM

ChannyS

I couldn't agree with you more...

They claim that in the next big release, the whole security and architecture is being revamped and it'll be easy to write your own queries to get this information.

January 23, 2009, 03:17 PM

Pascal Bellerose

could we expect that in 7.7?

January 23, 2009, 03:22 PM

j.gross

quote:
I'd like [to] list the groups per domain ...

The Groups extract file provides that info. It's mfd is given as:

IBIMRGRP.MAS Master File
$-----------------------------------------------------------------------
$ IBIMRGRP.MAS
$-----------------------------------------------------------------------
FILE=IBIMRGRP, SUFFIX=COM
SEGNAME=IBIMRGRP, SEGTYPE=S0
FIELD=GROUP_HREF, ALIAS=E01, ACUTAL=A13, USAGE=A13, $
FIELD=GROUP_DESC, ALIAS=E02, ACUTAL=A256, USAGE=A256, $
FIELD=DOMAIN_HTM, ALIAS=E03, ACUTAL=A21, USAGE=A21, $

in the "Managed Reporting Extract Utility" chapter of the MR Admin manual.
These are basically junction records, with one instance per group-domain association. So

table file IBIMRGRP print GROUP_DESC by DOMAIN_HTM by GROUP_HREF ...

should produce the list you need.