Configure Microsoft Internet Information Services

This section describes how to configure Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) as your web server in IBM® Cognos® Analytics.

Configuring WebDAV on IIS
To view and browse images in the Reporting, configure Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) on your web server. Report authors can browse for images to include in reports in a way that is similar to browsing a file system. On Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) web servers, you must first enable the WebDAV feature, and then configure your web server to access the image location.
Configuring IIS with SSL
To configure Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) with secure sockets layer (SSL) you extract the IBM Cognos certificate and then add it to the truststore on IIS.
Configuring IIS in Cognos Analytics
Use this information to configure Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) for IBM Cognos Analytics.
Configuring the CGI gateway on IIS version 7 or later
If you are using Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) version 7 or later, configure the CGI gateway. This is required for single sign-on.

Parent topic: Configuring the gateway