Description

This internship will introduce you to the technical architecture of the Cognos 10 BI software and will introduce you to the administration and security functions of this tool. You will learn how to monitor system performance and manage backup and scheduling functions.

Who is this training for ?

For whom ?

Application administrators, project management assistants.

Prerequisites

Training objectives

Customize the data access portal, the pages accessed by users, and the delivery of reports

Create users, groups and roles in Cognos

Define user profiles and access rights on modules and data

Implement security in Cognos Framework Manager

Monitor and control the performance of execution servers

Implement system administration strategy (application deployment, data backup)

Training program

• Introduction
  • Presentation of the Cognos 10 BI suite.
  • Cognos 10 BI architecture.
  • Type of content to administer.
  • Tools to administer .
• Security Administration
  • Security model.
  • Security implemented by default.
  • Authentication mode.
  • Create users, groups and roles .
  • Access rights for reading, writing, execution.
  • Passage rights and rule definition rights.
  • Controlling access to modules Cognos BI via protected functions and functionalities.
  • Controlling access to packages via object functions.
  • Exercise: Practical cases of security administration, creating user groups and controlling templates.
• Content Administration
  • Presentation of the IBM Cognos Connection interface.
  • Personalization, creation of pages.
  • Managing activities.
  • Managing communication options reports and custom views.
  • Managing report execution.
  • Defining user profiles.
  • Managing data sources.
  • Report version management, report distribution modes.
  • Exercise: Practical cases of content administration in the IBM Cognos Connection interface.
• System Administration
  • Introduction to the IBM Cognos Administration module.
  • System performance monitoring.
  • Service administration.
  • Server performance.
  • Management of simultaneous execution of queries.
  • Data backup strategy.
  • Deployment strategy.
  • Exercise: r nPractical cases of system administration, performance monitoring.
• Advanced administration options
  • Input planning.
  • Indicator monitoring management via the Metric Studio module.
  • Setting up alerts and adding users to a alert list.
  • Language settings.
  • Logging configuration.
  • Cognos Framework Manager.
  • Security with Cognos Transformer.
  • Implementing security in Cognos Framework Manager.
  • Demonstration Demonstration of monitoring via Metric Studio, configuring security in each module of the Cognos 10 BI suite .