IBM® Cognos® 8 Planning - Contributor Administration Guide

Table of Contents
4 Contributor
Chapter 3: Security 29
Cognos Namespace 29
Authentication Providers 29
Deleting or Restoring Unconfigured Namespaces 31
Users, Groups, and Roles 31
Users 32
Groups and Roles 32
Setting up Security for an IBM Cognos 8 Planning Installation 34
Configure IBM Cognos 8 to Use an Authentication Provider 35
Add or Remove Members From Planning Rights Administrators and Planning Contributor
Users Roles 36
Enabling Planning Roles in IBM Cognos 8 37
Restricting Access to the Everyone Group 37
Recommendation - Creating Additional Roles or Groups for Contributor 37
Configuring Access to the Contributor Administration Console 38
Granting Access Rights to Administrators 39
Access Rights for Macros 42
Assign Scheduler Credentials 44
Chapter 4: Configuring the Administration Console 47
Creating Planning Tables 47
Add a Datastore Server 48
Datastore Server Information 49
Jobs 49
Types of Jobs 49
Run Order for Jobs 50
Actions That Cause Jobs to Run 51
Securing Jobs 51
Managing Jobs 52
Reconciliation 54
Deleting Jobs 55
Managing Job Servers 55
Manage a Job Server Cluster 56
Add a Job Server and Change its Content Store 56
Add Applications and Other Objects to a Job Server Cluster 57
Add Objects to a Job Server 58
Remove Job Servers 59
Monitor Application Folders 59
Creating, Adding and Upgrading Applications 60
Remove Datastore Definitions and Contributor Applications 60
Adding an Existing Application to a Datastore Server 60
The Monitoring Console 61
Managing Sessions 61
Sending Email 63
Chapter 5: Creating a Contributor Application 65
Creating a Contributor Application 65
Application Folders 68
Model Details 68