Authentication MBean

Question

I am trying to implement my own authentication MBean, and got some questions:
1. how do you tell the weblogic console to show the control flag choices when
you create the authentication provider?
2. if I have other authenticator attributes, how can I ask the weblogic console
to provide the UIs for filling those? it's like the OpenLDAPAuthenticator where
there is a Details tab for filling out the port, hostname, etc. How can I tell
weblogic to show me those UIs?
3. I read that it might not be possible to tell the weblogic console to show UIs
for optional attributes. They said to use weblogic.Admin instead. How do I specify
the mbean type of my authentication mbean? For example, if I used the SampleAutenticator
as found at http://developer.bea.com/code/codedirect.jsp, how can I use weblogic.Admin
to get its value? I tried java weblogic.Admin -username system -password weblogic
-type SampleAuthenticator GET -property Version and it gave me back "No MBeans
found".
-hoki

Answer 1

I've seen this error before and the way around I found was to reset the BISystemUser credentials. To do this:
1) In WL Console. Find the user BISystemUser in the security realm and enter a new password.
2) In Enterprise Manager look on left hand side Weblogic Domain > bifoundation_domain > right click > Security > Credentials. Expand oracle.bi.system > system.user > Edit. Enter the same password as in 1)
3) Restart all the services.
Paul