Visualizing dashboards and reports

IBM Concert Operate includes support for analyzing and visualizing data through an integration with IBM Cognos Analytics. IBM Cognos Analytics provides powerful reporting, modeling, analysis, exploration, dashboards, and a story building tool, so you can understand your organization's data in a way that suits you, and make effective business decisions. For more information, see IBM Cognos Analytics .

The integration includes tools to leverage key data and widgets from within IBM Concert Operate, a seamless navigation experience featuring Single Sign on and one click direct access, and a collection of resources to get you started.

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You can also use the UI extension toolkit for additional dashboard use cases. The toolkit enables you to embed existing dashboards into Concert Operate from sources such as Grafana or Impact Operator views and write your own dashboards with code that can then be deployed directly to your cluster.

For more information on the dashboarding toolkit and deploying IBM Cognos Analytics alongside Concert Operate, see the Dashboarding guide in GitHub.

Overview

The integration provides a link between the following components:

  • IBM Concert Operate (on Red Hat OpenShift)
  • IBM Db2 (on a virtual machine)
  • IBM Cognos Analytics (on a virtual machine)

IBM Concert Operate provides the data for IBM Db2, through a Db2 Integration and also provides single sign-on to IBM Cognos Analytics using its authentication configuration so you can work with the same user accounts across both products. IBM Cognos Analytics can then leverage the data stored in IBM Db2 to allow the creation of dashboards, reports and more, while also accessing certain IBM Concert Operate context directly. For more information, see Creating the data flow.

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  • IBM Cognos Analytics is not supported on IBM Concert Operate on Linux. As such, this functionality is not enabled for deployments of IBM Concert Operate on Linux.
  • Entitlement to IBM Concert Operate provides limited entitlement to using IBM Cognos Analytics and IBM Db2 for IBM Concert Operate data sources only. Review the IBM Concert Operate license terms.

IBM Cognos Analytics is a proven, self-service, dependable analytics solution that provides scalability and analytics governance.

With IBM Cognos Analytics dashboards, you can build visualizations of your IBM Concert Operate data, such as alert and topology data, to monitor your data at a glance. IBM Cognos Analytics includes a wide range of customizable visualization options to help you create these interactive dashboards. You can then use the exploration, analysis, and reporting capabilities within IBM Cognos Analytics to discover patterns and relationships and gain further insights into your IBM Concert Operate data.

With IBM Cognos Analytics reports, you can use the provided web-based report authoring tool to build sophisticated, multiple-page, multiple-query reports whenever you require, such as for creating alert resolution rates or impacted resource reports.

When you set up this integration, you can open IBM Cognos Analytics from the Concert Operate console.