IBM® Business Monitor uses
the IBM Cognos® Business Intelligence service
to conduct multidimensional data analysis from your Monitoring dashboard
space or portlet-based dashboards. In the four-cluster topology, IBM Cognos BI is
installed on the support cluster.
About this task
To view this administrative console page, click .
Procedure
To install and configure IBM Cognos BI,
complete the following steps:
- In the list of components, click Cognos. The status for the service is displayed. If the service
is properly installed, the location of the installed service is listed
in the status box. (If you installed IBM Cognos BI with IBM Business Monitor and
created a stand-alone profile, the IBM Cognos BI service
is already deployed.)
- To deploy a new IBM Cognos BI service,
select the server or cluster for the IBM Cognos BI service
from the list. All available servers and clusters are listed.
(The available servers and clusters are shown with asterisks (*)).
If you have more than one server with the same name, be sure to choose
the server on the correct node.
Provide a database name to be used
for the content store. On DB2® and Microsoft SQL Server, the database
name must be different from the MONITOR database name. Provide a database
user name and password. If you use the same user name for the content
store as for the MONITOR database, you must use the same password.
The IBM Cognos BI service
creates tables in the IBM Cognos BI content
store database the first time it is started. Because the database
user provided for accessing the content store database must have privilege
to create tables in the database, it is recommended that you create
a new database user for the content store database only.
Note: The
user name and password for the IBM Cognos BI content
store database are kept in the Cognos_JDBC_Alias, which allows all
database credentials to be maintained in one place. Whenever you start
the IBM Business Monitor IBM Cognos BI server,
the current values are passed to the IBM Cognos BI configuration
to allow IBM Cognos BI access
to the content store. Because of this integration, you cannot change
the content store user name and password using the IBM Cognos BI Configuration
application.
If administrative security is enabled, you must
also provide the IBM Cognos BI administrator
user name and password.Click Deploy Cognos Service.
The status box is updated with the location of the installed service.
If this service has been installed to a cluster, the service will
appear unavailable until all nodes in the cluster have been synchronized
and restarted. If the deployment takes more time than is provided
by the administrative console response timeout, you might see a timeout
message. Wait a few more minutes before attempting to restart the
servers.
- If you already have an existing version of IBM Cognos BI installed,
under Use an existing Cognos service, provide
the external dispatcher URI of the IBM Cognos BI server. You can find this URI in the IBM Cognos BI configuration
client in (for example, http://my_host:my_port/p2pd/servlet/dispatch/ext).
If administrative security is enabled on the IBM Cognos BI server,
you must also provide the IBM Cognos BI administrator
user name and password.
Click Use an Existing Cognos
Service. The status box is updated with the location of
the installed service.
- Return to the main configuration page by clicking IBM Business Monitor configuration in
the breadcrumb listing.