Command Center is a specialized solution for automating and monitoring planning analytic solutions across on-premise and cloud systems. It allows centralized management of tasks, automation of workflows, and end-to-end monitoring of processes. Tips are provided for setting up Planning Analytics agents and computing resources in Command Center, configuring ports, encrypting passwords, running parallel tasks, and using plugin libraries. The document provides guidance on using Command Center to manage Planning Analytics solutions.

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FPM-1072
Tips on Using IBM
Cognos Command
Center with IBM
Planning Analytics
Martin Phillips and Steffen Enni

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What is Command
Center?

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Cognos Command Center: Manage Analytic Solutions
 Specialized solution for end-to-end automation
 Helps control and monitor planning analytic solutions
 Orchestrate tasks between on-premise and cloud systems.
Simplicity Control

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Why Command
Center?

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IBM Cognos Command Center
- Centrally managed across platforms
- Automation (series / parallel), dependencies & logic, error handling
- Proactively monitor processes and logs
Operation
Efficiency
- Mobile monitor and execute
- Notifications
- Lifecycle (test, dev)
Visibility &
Self Serve
- Insight into who, what, when, how
- Tracks history and changes
- Source control scripts and processes
Control &
Governance
- Leverage existing automations
- Prebuild libraries for TM1 and BI, easy to add
- Reduces IT burden/costs
ROI
Work smarter not harder…

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Command Center - Deployment

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Command Center
Tips:
Subhead

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Tip – Setting up an Planning Analytics Agent
TM1/PA Server endpoint:
+Hostname.planning-analytics.ibmcloud/ccagent/

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Tip – Setting Up a PA Computing Resource
- Server endpoint:
https://+hostname+.planning-
analytics.ibmcloud.com/tm1/api/+<tm1_server_n
ame>+/api/v1/

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TIP - Configure Your Ports
(7326 on-premise)
Open

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TIP – Encrypt your Passwords

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Tip – Conditional Notification
Note: Start or Stop Servers do not apply to PA cloud.
If start fails, go on. If start succeed, skip.

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Tip – Run Tasks in Parallel

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Tip – Add BI Search Path

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TIP - FTPS

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Tip - Copy Files
- Synchronizing servers
- Backup
- Fail over
- etc

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TIP – Multiple Steps

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Tip – Use the Plugin Libraries / Run Program

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