IBM Cognos Analytics: Architecture and Logging (v11.0)

• IBM Cognos Analytics: Administration (v11.0) course or equivalent experience administering the IBM Cognos Analytics environment.

Topics
Architecture Overview
1: Introduction and Service-Oriented Architecture
• Identify IBM Cognos 11.0 architectural components
• Describe Service-Oriented Architecture in IBM Cognos Analytics

2: Explore the IBM Cognos Dispatcher
• Describe IBM Cognos Dispatcher
• Describe request routing and the routing process
• Describe Content Manager Cache Service

3: Examine IBM Cognos services
• Identify IBM Cognos services
• Explore the architecture in IBM Cognos 11.0

4: Examine Java memory management
• Describe Java memory layout
• Manage Java memory
• Use tools to monitor Java memory

5: Examine audit logging and Indication Processing Facility logging
• Describe installation logs and configuration logs
• Explore audit logging
• Explore IPF logging

6: Perform dye tracing
• Identify dye tracing requirements
• Perform dye tracing

7: Explore Dynamic Query Mode
• Explain Dynamic Query Mode (DQM) logging
• Explain IBM Cognos Dynamic Query Analyzer (DQA)

8: Explore component logging
• Explore component logging for Gateway, Dispatcher, Report Server, and Universal Data Access layer

9: Examine additional tools and special task logging
• Explore diagnostic tools and utilities for special task logging