Administering Cognos Analytics

After you provision the Cognos Analytics service, you can complete the following tasks to administer the service.

Service configuration

Task Required permissions Details
Changing the time zone Instance administrator Change the Cognos Analytics time zone from that of the cluster to one of you your local time.
Configuring Db2 instance connection Instance administrator Configure properly the Db2 instance connection of Cognos Analytics.
Configuring Framework Manager for Cognos Analytics Cluster administrator Configure OpenSource project, Gateway URI, and Dispatcher URI to use Framework Manager in Cognos Analytics.
Configuring Transformer for Cognos Analytics Cluster administrator  
Data catalogs Instance administrator Connect Cognos Analytics to IBM Knowledge catalog.
Enabling long data names in prompts Instance administrator Enlarge the width of the select and search prompts to see long data names.
Fine-running memory and ephemeral storage on pods Cluster administrator Set up custom memory and ephemeral storage for pods with Cognos Analytics service instance.
Managing artifacts with Cognos Analytics APIs Instance administrator Use APIs to add JDBC drivers, custom images, and deployments to provisioned Cognos Analytics service instances.
Managing deployments Instance administrator Copy deployments to the artifacts service.
Managing images Instance administrator Use scripts to manage images and soft links to them.
Managing styles in reports Instance administrator Use a script to change the default style sheet. For example, the style might meet the requirements of of the Accessibility for Ontarian with Disabilities Act (AODA), 2005.
Managing users Instance administrator Manage users that can access the Cognos Analytics service and give them proper permissions.
Saving report outputs to file system Instance administrator Create a PVC to save report output files from Cognos Analytics service instance.
Setting up Cognos PowerCubes Instance administrator Use scripts to manage Cognos PowerCubes with PVC.
Setting up persistent data storage in Content Manager Instance administrator Set up in Content Manager a persistent data storage for indexing files to restart service and search objects faster.

Security

Task Required permissions Details
Exporting IBM Software Hub audit records to a security information and event management solution Not supported  
Audit events for Cognos Analytics Instance administrator  
Creating a secret to store shared custom certificates Instance administrator Put your custom certificates into a secret.
Creating a logging database and setting up audit reporting Cluster administrator Enable and optimize audit reports that come with Cognos Analytics.
Reviewing the security settings Instance administrator Add trusted users to the Analytics Administrator role and remove the default Everyone group.
Updating the OpenShift® secret for a password change Instance administrator Update passwords that are stored in the secret.

Resource management

Task Required permissions Details
Manually scaling resources for services Instance administrator Adjust Cognos Analytics by scaling resources to support high availability or to increase processing capacity. Resources can be scaled based on predefined resource configurations.
Automatically scaling resources for services Instance administrator Enable autoscaling with the OpenShift Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA). The HPA changes the resource allocation of services by increasing or decreasing the number of pods in response to CPU or memory consumption.
Shutting down and restarting services Instance administrator Manually shut down Cognos Analytics to prevent it from using resources. You can restart the service when you need to use it again.
Changing the plan size of the Cognos Analytics service instance Instance administrator Modify the plan size of an existing service instance.

Backup and restore

Task Required permissions Details
Backing up and restoring IBM Software Hub Cluster administrator Choose the correct method to back up and restore IBM Software Hub.

Data migration

Task Required permissions Details
Migrating Cognos Analytics data between clusters Cluster administrator Import or export Cognos Analytics data, including artifacts, between Cloud Pak for Data clusters.