Administering Cognos Dashboards

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

Service configuration

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Tracking usage of Cognos Dashboards licenses Instance administrator  

Storage configuration

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Disabling SELinux relabeling Cluster administrator Configure IBM® Software Hub pods to skip SELinux relabeling for all bulk operations if you're using a CSI-based storage type.

Security

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Exporting IBM Software Hub audit records to a security information and event management solution Instance administrator Record user activities for Cognos Dashboards.
Audit events for Cognos Dashboards Instance administrator  

Resource management

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Manually scaling resources for services Instance administrator Adjust Cognos Dashboards 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 Dashboards to prevent it from using resources. You can restart the service when you need to use it again.

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.