Logging in to the reporting interface

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Depending upon your organization’s deployment of Tivoli® Common Reporting, you can access the reporting interface directly or through Dashboard Application Services Hub, or through a Tivoli product’s user interface.

About this task

With the Common Reporting interface, you can perform simple lightweight tasks as well as more advanced scalable reporting that is provided by IBM® Cognos® Business Intelligence Reporting.

Create on-demand reports.
Use the Web-based report authoring.
Email reports.

Tip: To access the Cognos documentation, click Question mark icon

in the reporting interface.

You can access the reporting interface as follows:

Dashboard Application Services Hub: Log in to the reporting interface from the Dashboard Application Services Hub login page.; Both Dashboard Application Services Hub and Tivoli Common Reporting are installed in the same application serving environment, and the reporting interface is integrated with Dashboard Application Services Hub.; Access is determined by user roles associated with user IDs. The role that you need to access Tivoli Common Reporting is tcrPortalOperator. See Authentication and authorization in Tivoli Common Reporting.
Direct access: Log in to the reporting interface from its own login page.
Tivoli product’s user interface: Log in to the reporting interface from a Tivoli product’s login page.; Tivoli Common Reporting is integrated with a Tivoli product.

Procedure

Access the reporting interface from Dashboard Application Services Hub as follows:
1. Open a web browser and enter the following URL for the Jazz® for Service Management UI and reporting server:
```
https://host.domain:port/DASH_context_root
```
  For example: https://myJazzSMserver.ibm.com:16311/ibm/console
  - host.domain is the fully qualified host name or IP address of the Jazz for Service Management UI and reporting server.
    Note: When single sign-on (SSO) is enabled, ensure that you use the fully qualified host name in the URL of the Jazz for Service Management reporting and UI server. SSO requires that the browser pass LTPA cookies to the Jazz for Service Management application server, and these cookies contain the fully qualified host name.
  - port is the secure HTTP port number that was specified during installation. The default value is 16311.
  - /DASH_context_root is the context root for the console that was specified during installation. The default value is /ibm/console.
  Check with your organization’s Jazz for Service Management administrator if you are unsure of the URL.
2. On the Dashboard Application Services Hub login page, enter the user ID and password. Ensure that user ID has access to Tivoli Common Reporting. Click Log in.
  
  The Dashboard Application Services Hub Welcome page opens.
  
  Tip: To eliminate the security warnings when logging on to the user interface, install a certificate on the Jazz for Service Management UI and reporting server. To install the certificate, follow the instructions in WebSphere® information center.
3. In the navigation bar, click > Common Reporting.
  
  The Common Reporting portal is displayed within a Dashboard Application Services Hub portlet page.
Access the reporting interface directly as follows:
1. Open a web browser and enter the following URL for the reporting interface:
```
http://host.domain:port/tarf/servlet/dispatch
```
  For example: http://myJazzSMserver.ibm.com:16310/tarf/servlet/dispatch
  - host.domain is the fully qualified host name or IP address of the Jazz for Service Management reporting server.
    Note: When single sign-on (SSO) is enabled, ensure that you use the fully qualified host name in the URL of the Jazz for Service Management reporting server. SSO requires that the browser pass LTPA cookies to the Jazz for Service Management application server, and these cookies contain the fully qualified host name.
  - port is the non secure HTTP port number that was specified during installation. The default value is 16310.
  Check with your organization’s Jazz for Service Management administrator if you are unsure of the URL.
2. On the Log on to IBM Cognos Software page, enter the user name and password. Click OK.
  
  The Common Reporting portal opens.
Access the reporting interface from a Tivoli product’s user interface.

Check with your organization’s Tivoli product administrator for the URL of the Tivoli product’s login page.