IBM Satellite Connector (On-Demand only)

Use IBM Satellite Connector to maintain an encrypted connection between an on-premises Satellite Connector Agent and the IBM Satellite servers that IBM maintains on Cloud. This allows you to use IBM Cognos Analytics on Demand to securely consume your on-premises data.

You create a Satellite Connector instance In Cognos Analytics. Then you install the Satellite Connector Agent in your on-premises network and configure an encrypted (TLS v1.2) bi-directional connection with the on IBM Satellite server. You establish a secure connection between the Satellite Connector Client and an on-premises database. This on-premise database is called the destination database. Your on-premises data can then be securely accessed and manipulated by Cognos Analytics on Demand.

A Satellite Connector instance is a Windows service that authenticates with an IBM Satellite server using an API key. There can be only one API key per Windows service and only one Windows service per server.

Secure Satellite Connector map , showing server, client, and destination host and database
Note: IBM Satellite Connector is only available for use with Cognos Analytics on Demand. It is not supported for Cognos Analytics on Cloud - Hosted users. For more information, see Tenant administration.

For more information

For more information about IBM Satellite Connector, see the following resources: