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Product: Cognos BI 8.4.1
C8BISRVRRS_version=C8-AW32-ML-RTM-8.4.102.18-0
C8BISRVRRS_name=Cognos 8 Business Intelligence Server Application Tier

Symptom:

Can not add a URL in Cognos Connection to direct users to other server or website. In this case we want to add a link to a TM1 server.

The TM1 link to be used by Contributors

http://sekinsvtm1:8080/pmpsvc

The TM1 classic link looks like this

http://sekinsvtm1/tm1web/

Problem: you get a error message, that will be this in Swedish

IBM Cognos 8
Det har uppstått ett fel

DPR-ERR-2079 Brandväggssäkerhet – avvisning. Begärn nekades av brandväggsskyddet

CAF-avvisningsinformation är tillgängliga i loggen. Kontaka administratören.

Cause:

In Cognos BI 8.4 and later if the CAF is active – you must specify all HOST and SITES you are going to access via URL in Cognos Connection.

Solution:

Ensure that every possible valid combination of hostname and port which your gateway requests could come from is specified in theValid domains or hosts property on each application-tier server. Steps:

  1. Open Cognos Configuration.
  2. In the left pane, click on the Cognos Application Firewall node.
  3. Select the Valid domains or hosts property and click the edit button.
  4. Add additional webserver “hostname:port” entries as required.
  5. Repeat for every application-tier server.

In our case we must use FQDN like http://sekinsvtm1.company.com to access the server,

Therefore the values added in Cognos Configuration for CAF are;

Sekinsvtm1.company.com:8080

sekinsvtm1/tm1web

sekinsvtm1

.company.com

And the URL entered for the link are
http://sekinsvtm1.company.com:8080/pmpsvc

(The port number can be different at your site depending on how you set TM1 up)

 

 

 

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Product: Cognos Express

When installing Cognos Express there are some things to remember when it comes to the location of the installation sofware

1.Special characters are not supported in the installation path
Certain extended characters are not supported when specifying the installation path for IBM Cognos Express and its components. Use only 7-bit ASCII characters when specifying the installation path for IBM Cognos Express as well as any of the client software applications provided with each of the IBM Cognos Express products.

2. Installation from a UNC path is not supported
You may be lucky and Congos Express will install and confiure properly. But when you try to install the Cognos Express modules, they all fail. Just uninstall Cognos Express, copy the installation software to a local disk of your server and install Cognos Express again. Now the Cognos Express modules will install properly

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Product: Cognos TM1 9.x

1)  Open a DOS box / command prompt:  Start -> Run -> cmd
2)  Navigate to the TM1 bin directory using the cd command. Go to the TM1 bin directory, the default installation path is “C:\Program Files\Cognos\TM1\bin”.
3)  Type the following command:
tm1sd.exe -install -n”NameOfTM1Server” -z”PathtoTm1s.cfgFile”
Where the “NameOfTM1Server” (after the -n) is the name you want to give to this TM1 Server service.  If the name you are going to use contains any spaces, this value must be specified in double quotes.
Where the “PathtoTm1s.cfgFile” (after the -z) is the path to the tm1s.cfg file for this the TM1 Server you are setting up.
For example:
tm1sd.exe -install -n”TM1 Production Server” -z”C:\Program Files\Cognos\TM1\Custom\TM1Data\PData”

If the command is successful, it will return the following message:

TM1 Server / tm1 production server installed.

4)  You can then go into the services listing, and you will see the new TM1 Server service you setup.  Following the above example, the service would be listed as:
TM1 Server / tm1 production server
You can then configure the service to run automatically, and to run under a specific domain user.
NOTE:  If you are setting up a completely new TM1 Server for which you don’t already have a tm1s.cfg file, you can copy the tm1s.cfg from the Planning Sample TM1 Server and modify it accordingly.  At a minimum, you will need to modify the ServerName, DataBaseDirectory, and PortNumber parameter values.
If the service does not start (error message stating the service cannot be started), starting the same TM1 Logical server as a desktop application will usually provide more detailed information on the error.

Removal of the TM1 service

To remove a TM1 Server service (again, following the example above), follow steps 1 and 2, then type the following command:
tm1sd.exe -remove -n”NameOfTM1Server”

Where the “NameOfTM1Server” (after the -n) is the name of the TM1 Server service you wish to remove.
For example:
  tm1sd.exe -remove -n”TM1 Production Server”