Dienstag, 15. September 2009

IsC8Up - IBM Cognos 8 Heart Beat Checker



Today, I am proud to present you a self written program which checks your IBM Cognos 8 Environment for its availability. The programm is completly freeware, so don´t hesitate to install and use it. It is able to check your Cognos 8 Gateway, Dispatcher and Services for issues and notifies you by mail in case of an problem.
The check interval is 5 Minutes. Error messages -if available - will be included in the email body.

The program can be executed as windows service or as GUI.
The program is free to use. Advanced options can be developed on request.
If you have such an request or an error message don´t hesitate to contact me by mail.


Download -> IsC8Up
(Windows 200x, Win XP, Vista) (. NET 3.x)

Donnerstag, 10. September 2009

IBM Cognos 8 Sicherheitsgrundlagen

Below an interesting article for Cognos security questions. The document tries to clarify the following : "What is the best way to implement security in Cognos" and "What you should have look at, when you implement security in Cognos".

Unfortunately the article is only available in german at the moment.

IBM Cognos 8 Sicherheitsgrundlagen