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REPORTNET
Center of Excellence
Data Warehousing
Objectives
Expectations from the training
Scope of the training
Cognos ReportNet Architecture
Out of Scope
Installation and Configuration
Questions/Answers Session
Agenda
About Cognos ReportNet
Architecture
Security
System Requirements
About Cognos ReportNet
Zero foot print, Web based user interface
Web services architecture to support
Scalability
Robustness
Supports leading relational databases
Integrates with web farms
Single point of administration through
web
Ensures dynamic load balancing
Supports multi-lingual reporting
Open to third party products and custom
About Cognos ReportNet
Sophisticated Reporting
Enhanced Report Presentation
Flexible Report Publishing
Advanced Report Control
Simplifies Expression Authoring
Enterprise Management
Improved Security
Improved Performance
Improved Deployment
Leveraging Existing Infrastructure
Architecture
USER INTERFACE
FIREWALL
FIREWALL
♦Content Manager
APPLICATIONS ♦Dispatcher
♦ReportNet Server
Content Databases
Store
Architecture - User Interfaces
USER INTERFACE
WEB BASED
Query
Studio
Ad-Hoc Reporting
WINDOWS BASED
Cognos Application
User
Interfac Firewall
e Validates & filters
Analyzes requests
Rejects malicious
requests
ReportNet Gateway
Web communication
Application
s Supported gateways
CGI
ISAPI
Apache_Mod
Architecture - Web Server
Request
REPORTNET
GATWAY
Extracts information
ReportNet
Server
Architecture – Application
ReportNet Server
Web
Run Requests
Server
Content Manager
Stores ReportNet Information
Contains Cognos Access
Manager
Dispatcher
Start Services
Route Requests
Data
Distributes Configuration
Changes
Architecture – Application
Content Manager
Stores all ReportNet information
Can install content manager any number of
times, but only one will be active at any time
Additional content manager serves as a stand-
by for failover support
The information stored includes
Reports
Packages
Personal information
Server configuration
Architecture – Application
Dispatcher
Each ReportNet computer has one dispatcher
Multi-threaded application
Services managed by dispatcher include
Presentation service
Batch report and report services
Job and schedule monitoring service
Log service
Architecture - Data
Databases supported for Content store are DB2, Oracle and SQL Server only
Architecture – Framework
Manager
Architecture 1 Architecture 2
User Framework
User
Interfaces Manager
Interfaces
FIREWALL
FIREWALL
Web Web
Server Server
FIREWALL
FIREWALL
Framework Content Content
Manager Manager Manager
Dispatcher Dispatcher
Data Flow
Work Flow
Plan Install
ReportNe
t
Configure Create
ReportNe Packages
t
Authorization
ReportNet Directory Access
Server Manager
System Requirements
Software
Windows/Unix
Web Server (IIS/Apache)
RDBMS supporting UNICODE Character Set
(DB2/Oracle/SQL Server)
Web Browser (Supporting ActiveX Controls,
Scripting)
MDAC
Hardware
1GB RAM
1GB HDD free space
Refer Cognos ReportNet Installation and Configuration document for details
KNOWLEDGE IS NO
ONE ASSET
SHARE & CARE
R.Vijay Bhaskar DWH TEAM 2007