Privilege require to kill a report server Job

Question

Hi all.
I'm using Forms / Reports 11g Rel2 on a Windows box.
What privileges are required to kill a report submitted to a report server (non secure).
Precisely: if you're on the showjobs page, can anyone who access this page kill a job?
Also, is it possible to use CANCEL_REPORT_OBJECT (within Forms) for a running job?. Again, which privileges are required?.
Thanks in advance ....!

Answer 1

Sure, No problem.
You have two options actually - forgot to mention the other alternative.
1.) Oracle HTTP Server (OHS) - this will block any attempt to showjobs based on IP Address/Domain Name/etc....
That means however, you'll have to firewall off port 9002. But most my customers do this anyway - as reports are commonly accessed via OHS.
In $ORACLE_INSTANCE/config/OHS/ohs1/moduleconf/reports_ohs.conf, add the bolded text to your conf file. You can do a individual or ranges of IP addresses/hostnames/fully qualified domains. Consult Google or Oracle HTTP Server documentation on deny/allow rule syntax.
<Location /reports/rwservlet/showjobs>
SetHandler weblogic-handler
WebLogicHost hostname
WebLogicPort 9002
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from 10.1.1.10
</Location>
2.) WLS_REPORTS solution. This lets you password protect the showjobs screen.
- Locate and backup your reports server's rwserver.conf - i'd make sure its the right one. As a lot of people can get confused as by default Reports comes with 2 reports servers.
- Open rwserver.conf
- Add the following parameter in between the "<queue maxQueueSize ..." tag and "<pluginParam name="mailServer" value="%MAILSERVER_NAME%"/>" tag:
*<identifier encrypted="no">username/password</identifier>*
- replace username/password for your actual username/password combo you want to use. Save your changes.
- Reboot the reports server process - if you use a reports server that runs in OPMN, make sure you reboot your OPMN Reports server process as well.
- when you try to access show jobs, it should return an access deined. To access showjobs. add "?authid=username/password" to the end of your URL to access the page.
For more info on this: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E14571_01/bi.1111/b32121/pbr_strt001.htm#sthref63
Both options arent exactly elegant but they work :)
Thanks,
Gavin
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