How to deploy Cognos Portal to Other portals?

If you work on Different Portals or your business requires to integrate cognos and other softwares, You might stumble at deploying cognos portlets into different portals.

You can deploy the Cognos portlets to the following portals as given in the tutorials in this site. IBM WebSphere 5.0, 5.1, 6.0, and 6.1

SAP Enterprise Portal 6.0, 6.4, 7.0 and 7.1 Oracle WebCenter Interaction Portal Server 10.3 Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2007 and 2010

If you want to use the ReportNet 1.1 portlets in IBM Cognos Business Intelligence, you may need to upgrade them. By default, the root name of file paths in the portlets is Cognos. You can change the root name. As an additional security measure, you can disable the mechanism to transfer the IBM Cognos passport ID as a URL parameter between users' browsers and the IBM Cognos gateway. After you deploy the portlets, you can enable single signon between the portlets and your portal. Note: 1. In SAP Enterprise Portal, portlets are named iViews. This document may refer to iViews as portlets. 2. In Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server, portlets are named Web Parts. This document may refer to Web Parts as portlets. Using the following links you can Deploy Cognos Portal to other portlets.

How to Deploy Cognos Portlets into IBM WebSphere 5.0, 5.1, 6.0, and 6.1 How to Deploy Cognos Portlets into SAP Enterprise Portal 6.0, 6.4, 7.0 and 7.1

How to Deploy Cognos Portlets into Oracle WebCenter Interaction Portal Server 10.3 How to Deploy Cognos Portlets into Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003 How to Deploy Cognos Portlets into Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2007 and 2010

Source: IBM Cognos Documents.

How to Deploy Cognos Portlets into IBM WebSphere 5.0, 5.1, 6.0, and 6.1
Before users can add Cognos portlets to their portal pages, you must deploy the portlets to the portal server. You can deploy the following portlets: IBM Cognos Content : This group includes IBM Cognos Navigator, IBM Cognos Search, IBM Cognos Viewer. IBM Cognos Extended Applications: This group includes the IBM Cognos Extended Applications portlet. IBM Cognos Metric Studio: This group includes IBM Cognos Metric List, IBM Cognos History Chart, IBM Cognos Impact Diagram, and IBM Cognos Custom Diagram. Before you start deploying the portlets, ensure that IBM Cognos Business Intelligence, including IBM Cognos Connection and Portal Services, is installed and configured. For the IBM Cognos Extended Applications portlet, IBM Cognos Software Development Kit must also be installed. If IBM Cognos Software Development Kit is not installed or not available, the portal administrator should disable the IBM Cognos Extended Applications portlet after the portlet applications file is installed.

For the IBM Cognos Metric Studio portlets, Metric Studio must also be installed. If Metric Studio is not installed or not available, the portal administrator should disable the IBM Cognos Metric Studio portlets after the portlet applications file is installed. You must first log on to the portal with administrator privileges. The deployment process consists of the following tasks:

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Installing the portlet applications file Configuring the portlet applications Configuring the portlet cache Customizing the content of Cognos portlets

After you deploy the portlets, you can configure security for your WebSphere Portal environment. For more information, see the Installation and Configuration Guide. Note: The tasks documented in this section may vary slightly for the different versions of WebSphere Portal. Before Cognos content can appear in any WebSphere page, you must install the portlet applications file CognosBIPortlets.war located in the c10_location\cps\ibm\portlets directory. This file contains the applications for the Cognos portlets, one for IBM Cognos Navigator, IBM Cognos Search, and IBM Cognos Viewer, one for IBM Cognos Extended Applications, and one for IBM Cognos Metric List, IBM Cognos History Chart, IBM Cognos Impact Diagram, and IBM Cognos Custom Diagram. To install the portlet applications file, you must be logged on to the portal with administrator privileges, and be able to access the CognosBIPortlets.war file from your file system or network file system. If the Portal Services installation is not within your network access, you must manually move the CognosBIPortlets.war file to an accessible location. Install the portlets Applications File? The portlet applications file can be installed only once. However, it can be updated when required. Steps 1.At the top of the portal page, click the Administration tab. 2.From the menu on the left, click Portlet Management, Web Modules, and then click Install. Tip: To update the CognosBIPortlets.war file, click Web Modules, select the file name, and click the update web module button . 3.Click the Browse button, and, in the c10_location\cps\ibm\portlets directory, select the CognosBIPortlets.war file. 4.Click Next.

5.Click Finish. A message confirms that the portlets were successfully installed. Configure the Portlet Applications: Configure the portlet application to specify the signon mechanism and the address of the server component for Portal Services. This must be done for all sets of Cognos portlets: the IBM Cognos Content portlets, the IBM Cognos Extended Applications portlets, and the IBM Cognos Metric Studio portlets. Steps 1.On the Administration tab, click Portlet Management, Web Modules. 2.Click the CognosBIPortlets.war file.A list of the Cognos portlet applications appears. 3.For the application you want, click the edit portlet application button .The edit page appears. 4.For the Active Credential Type property, enter one of the following values to specify the single signon mechanism used in your installation. LtpaToken HttpBasicAuth SiteMinderToken WebSealToken For more information about configuring single signon for Portal Services, see Configuring Security for Portal Services. 5.For the IBM Cognos WSRP WSDL Location property, modify the URL as required to connect to the CPS server. The URL must contain the correct protocol, server name, port number, and server path. By default, the protocol is http. If IBM Cognos Business Intelligence is configured to be accessed through Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) connections, change the protocol to https. The server path must point to an IBM Cognos gateway.

For the IBM Cognos Navigator, IBM Cognos Search, and IBM Cognos Viewer portlets, the path is c10_gateway/wsrp/cps4/portlets/nav?wsdl&b_action=cps.wsdl. For the IBM Cognos Extended Applications portlet, the path is c10_gateway/wsrp/cps4/portlets/sdk?wsdl&b_action=cps.wsdl. For the IBM Cognos Metric Studio portlets, the path is c10_gateway/wsrp/cps4/portlets/cmm?wsdl&b_action=cps.wsdl.

6.Click OK.The Cognos portlets are now available to be added to pages by users. You can configure Cognos portlets so that their default settings are the same for all users. 7.Repeat steps 3 to 6 for the IBM Cognos Extended Applications Portlets and the IBM Cognos Metric Studio portlets. Note: You can create the IBM Cognos Extended Applications portlets only if IBM Cognos Software Development Kit is installed. For information about creating extended applications for Portal Services, see the Developer Guide. Configure the Portlet Cache: Portal Services caches HTML markup fragments that are used to quickly regenerate recent views of portlet pages. These markup fragments are compressed and stored in the users session object. You can configure the number of pages stored for each users portlet. The size of the markup fragment for each page depends on the complexity of the portlet, but they are typically about 5KB. By default, the cache stores ten pages for each users portlet. Steps 1.On the Administration tab, click Portlet Management, Web Modules. 2.Click the portlet applications file CognosBIPortlets.war. 3.In the portlet applications list, click the application you want. 4.For the portlet you want to set the cache size, click the configure portlet button . 5.For the Maximum Cached Pages property, enter the maximum number of pages you want to cache. 6.Click OK. 7.Repeat steps 4 to 6 for each portlet. 8.Restart the IBM Cognos service. Customize the Content of Cognos Portlets: As an administrator, you can define the default content and appearance of portlets. When you customize a portlet instance using the configure button , the settings become the default for all users who view this instance. If the portlet is not locked for editing and the users have Privileged user access for the page

where the portlet exists, the users can customize the content for their instance of the portlet. Users retain their custom settings even if you reset the portlet. Users inherit the settings you configure only when they view the instance you configured, or when they reset the portlet using the reset button in the edit page of the portlet. Applications that appear in the IBM Cognos Extended Applications portlet may include editable application parameters with default values defined by the developer. To change the parameter values that users see as defaults, you must edit the applications.xml file. For information about modifying application parameters, see the Developer Guide. The configurable properties for the Cognos portlets vary. For more information, see User Reference Help for Portal Services.Special Considerations for WebSphere Portal 6.0 and 6.1 In WebSphere version 6.0 and 6.1, administrators have two types of configuration levels for defining the appearance of portlets: Administrator and Shared.

When using Administrator configuration that gives you access to the Configure mode of the portlet, your changes affect all instances of the portlet on all pages for all users. When using Shared configuration that gives you access to the Edit shared settings mode of the portlet, your changes affect a particular instance of a portlet in a page and apply to all users. A third type of configuration level named Personal that gives you access to the Personalize mode of the portlet is not available to administrators with the Shared configuration permissions. This is because IBM Cognos portlets support the IBM Portlet API. The changes made to a portlet using Personal configuration affect only the user's view of the portlet.

Steps: 1.Go to the page where you added the Cognos portlets. 2.Click the configure button for the portlet that you want to configure. 3.Edit the settings as required.These become the default settings for user instances of this portlet. 4.Click OK.
Source: IBM COGNOS Doc