Cognos 8.4 Multiple Gateways

[TROndrey]

Hi everyone

I'm wondering what would need to be done to configure multiple gateways to reach our Reporting Server.

I currently have a distributed environment on z/Linux with 3 Cognos servers(Gateway,Reporting,ContentManager). All are on our private network in the server farm. I want to add a second gateway but place it in the DMZ, we will use apache proxy server to get to the Cognos servers in the farm. From the Gateway configuration I can point the second server to the dispatcher. From the reporting server the Gateway URI is configured with the original IP Address. Is there a way to add the second? Is that necessary?

Tim

[SomeClown]

Shouldn't be necessary.  You only need to point the gateway machine into the dispatcher.  You don't need to point out to gateways except for client-side authentication (Framework Manager).

[prikala]

I think (not 100% sure and no free time to test in practice) gateway address configured in report server environment is used to construct absolute URLs in some situations, for example when you send report as email.
Might be a problem if an user has access only to gateway at DMZ and emails have links pointing to gateway at private network.

[mpflug]

We use multiple gateways but all on the same network.  I don't see a problem with your solution though as long as you poke holes in the firewall for your gateway to reach the dispatcher.