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About Report Security
Configuring OVO
About Database Reports
To enhance report security, OVO restricts database access, Net8 access,
and web reporting capabilities. You can customize these security
measures to match the particular needs of your organization.
Restricting Database Access
For report-writing tools, OVO restricts database access to a single
database user, opc_report. This user has read-only access. The
opc_report user makes use of the Oracle report role opc_report_role.
This report role is a kind of database user profile. You can use the role to
enable additional users to access to the database so they can create
reports using information in the OVO database tables.
Restricting Net8 Access
To accept net connections, Net8 requires a listener process running on
the database node. The listener process accepts connection requests from
any legal database user. If you want to tighten security still further,
there are products available (for example, from Oracle) that help improve
general communication security in this area. For more information, see
the Oracle product documentation.
Restricting Web Reporting
To restrict web reporting, OVO requires you to place the web-reporting
server on the same side of your firewall as the OVO database server. Any
other configuration is not supported.
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