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Title: Cognos Admin Daily Tasks
Post by: danii64 on 26 Sep 2013 01:55:32 PM
Hi  All,

I'm new to cognos Admin. and i was wondering if you guys can help me.
I dont have any specific question i just want to know as a cognos admin, what are the daily tasks or list of things i should keep an eye out for.
Are there anything daily maintenance or upkeep type of tasks that i need to be aware of as a admin. basically anything i should know to get me started, im reading a lot of article online about it but it seems like they're more broad if you guys can help me out it will be greatly appreciated thanks!
Title: Re: Cognos Admin Daily Tasks
Post by: Grim on 26 Sep 2013 02:27:08 PM
Just make sure the damn thing keeps running.  ;)

Keep an eye out for core dumps and java cores.

Make sure the users aren't doing stupid things like running a report via a schedule every 10 seconds.

Shtuff like that.
Title: Re: Cognos Admin Daily Tasks
Post by: bdbits on 27 Sep 2013 09:39:00 AM
You can become familiar with some of the on-going tasks by reviewing various topics within the Cognos documentation.

http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/cbi/v10r1m1/topic/com.ibm.swg.ba.cognos.ug_cra.10.1.1.doc/c_serveradministration.html#ServerAdministration
Title: Re: Cognos Admin Daily Tasks
Post by: Grim on 27 Sep 2013 09:49:37 AM
Setup system metrics too.

Wanna take that to the next level?
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/data/library/cognos/infrastructure/cognos_specific/page592.html
Title: Re: Cognos Admin Daily Tasks
Post by: bdbits on 27 Sep 2013 10:25:08 AM
Kick it up a notch. You cannot post a link for which Grim cannot do one better.

I applaud you, sir.  8)
Title: Re: Cognos Admin Daily Tasks
Post by: danii64 on 27 Sep 2013 06:22:18 PM
Thank you all very much!