Free tool to monitor Cognos performance?

[Asad Ch]

IS there any free tool or software application to monitor Cognos Performance, which can send alerts and notification on email, check reports status, or to check status of login users?

[smiley]

You can use cognos BI itself for that.
If windows, use perfmon to write the required counters to the audit database.
Then use the reporting on the audit database, and the event studio functionality for the rest of your requirements.

[Andrew Weiss]

Asad Ch,

Our tools are not free but they're also not expensive.  MetaManager has a Performance bundle of modules that validate reports, schedules and datasources.  The modules track schedule execution activity and logged on users.  In addition you can monitor cpu, memory, server availability and track the active content manager.  Have a look at the modules here: http://www.bspsoftware.com/products/metamanager/Perform/

You can also download MetaManager and give it a try for yourself.

Thank You,
-Andy

[dougp]

Insufficient information.

I'm with smiley.  Cognos Audit database for amount of usage and query/report speed.  Windows Performance Monitor for resource usage.

I'm dumping my Windows Performance Monitor data at 5-second interfvals to csv during the busy time of day (6AM to 6PM).  It doesn't seem to bog down my system.  Then I have an SSIS process ETL the performance data to a database at 7PM daily.