IBM Cognos

Objectifs

• This course IBM Cognos TM1: Administer the Technical Environment combines lecture material and hands-on practice in installing and administering the TM1 environment
• The course outlines how the architecture can be customized to fit into various infrastructures
• Students will learn how to perform replication and synchronization, monitor system performance, and secure TM1 applications

Programme

TM1 ARCHITECTURE AND INSTALLATION

• Describe the IBM Cognos performance management (PM) system and TM1's role in PM
• Identify the components of the TM1 architecture
• Install TM1 components
• Configure TM1 components

REPLICATE AND SYNCHRONIZE SERVERS

• Describe the replication process
• Identify replication relationships
• Identify possible server configurations
• Replicate cubes
• Remove cube replications
• Synchronize replications

ADMINISTER TM1 SERVERS WITH THE OPERATIONS CONSOLE

• Add your admin server and TM1 server to the Operations Console
• Use the TM1OperationsConsole.xml file to set up your environment quickly
• Check the health status of the servers
• Filter the statuses shown

MONITOR SERVER PERFORMANCE

• Use TM1 log files
• Monitor performance with control cubes
• Dynamically monitor TM1 server threads
• Monitor TM1 server performance in real time

MANAGE THE SERVER

• Broadcast messages to clients
• Connect and disconnect users from a TM1 server
• Shut down a remote TM1 server

IMPLEMENT TM1 SECURITY

• Identify TM1 authentication options
• Create users and groups
• Assign object security rights to groups
• Use rules to maintain security rights

MAINTAIN APPLICATIONS

• Identify migration approaches
• Document objects in the TM1 application
• Manage the application metadata
• Identify backup approaches
• Create processes to back up data
• Plan for backup and recovery of TM1 applications

ADD CUBE RULES (OPTIONAL)

• Describe a rule
• Construct rules for elements or consolidations
• Use functions in rules
• Optimize rule performance

USE THE IBM COGNOS TM1 PACKAGE CONNECTOR (OPTIONAL)

• Install the IBM Cognos TM1 package connector
• Import dimensions and a cube from an IBM Cognos package

DISASTER RECOVERY PLAN TEMPLATE (OPTIONAL)

• Complete a disaster recovery plan