Detailed Course Outline
Cognos TM1 Architecture
- describe the IBM Cognos performance management (PM) system and Cognos TM1s role in PM
- identify the components of the Cognos TM1 architecture
Cognos TM1 Installation and Configuration
- install Cognos TM1 components
- configure Cognos TM1 components
Administer Cognos TM1 Servers with the Cognos TM1 Operations Console
- add your Cognos TM1 admin server and Cognos TM1 server to the Cognos TM1 Operations Console
- check the health status of the servers
- filter the statuses shown
- dynamically monitor Cognos TM1 server threads
Monitor Server Performance
- use Cognos TM1 log files
- monitor performance with control cubes
- monitor Cognos TM1 server performance in real time
Manage the Server
- broadcast messages to clients
- connect and disconnect users from a Cognos TM1 server
- shut down a remote Cognos TM1 server
- use the command line utility to execute operations
Implement Cognos TM1 Security
- identify Cognos TM1 authentication options
- create users and groups
- assign object security rights to groups
- use rules to maintain security rights
Maintain Applications
- identify migration approaches
- document objects in the CognosTM1 application
- manage the application metadata
- transfer data in Cognos TM1 Performance Modeler
- identify backup approaches
- create processes to back up data
- plan for backup and recovery of CognosTM1 applications
Use the IBM Cognos TM1 Package Connector (Optional)
- install the Cognos TM1 package connector
- import dimensions and a cube from a Cognos package
Customize Business Rules (Optional)
- describe a rule
- review automatically generated rules
- describe and re-order rule blocks
- disable and enable auto-generated rules
- review manual rules
Replicate and Synchronize Servers (Optional)
- describe the replication process
- identify replication relationships
- identify possible server configurations
- replicate cubes
- remove cube replications
- synchronize replications
Disaster Recovery Plan Template (Optional)
- complete a disaster recovery plan