IBM Cognos Business Intelligence v10: The Complete Guide

Chapter 13. Maintaining Your IBM Cognos BI Application

IBM Cognos Administration enables you to manage and maintain your IBM Cognos BI environment. You can access the IBM Cognos Administration option only if you have administrator privileges. As the IBM Cognos BI Administrator, you can use the Administration portal to monitor and manage schedules, monitor performance using system metrics, manage server properties, create data source connections, secure BI environment, and manage Cognos BI content.

Administration of IBM Cognos BI environment does not need to be centralized with one person. The architecture enables you to use the administrator roles available to you to decentralize IBM Cognos BI administration tasks. Refer to the section “Decentralized ...