Why would an administrator use IPF (Indication Processing Facility) logging?
Some error messages may contain sensitive information, such as server names. By default, error message details in IBM Cognos software are routed to IPF log files, and the secure error message option is enabled. The information presented to users indicates only the occurrence of an error, without any details.
An administrator wants to implement load balancing without using an external load balancing mechanism.
What is one approach that can be used to achieve this?
If your installation includes more than one dispatcher, you can specify the proportion of requests that each dispatcher handles by changing their processing capacity. This is commonly referred to as load balancing. You typically set the capacity for a dispatcher based on the CPU speed of the computer where it is installed.
An administrator is attempting to import a backup of the entire Content Store into an existing Content Store.
What is an instance of when an object will be kept by the default conflict resolution rule?
The default conflict resolution rule for deploying the entire content store is replace.
Exceptions to the default conflict resolution rule are listed in the following table:
Object name: SESSION, CACHEOUTPUT, REPORTCACHE, REPORTMETADATACACHE, DEPLOYMENTDETAIL
Conflict Resolution Rule: Keep
An administrator deleted a group inadvertently then recreated it, but now the access permissions based on that group no longer work.
What must be done?
An administrator sees that an environment has a long startup time and wants to remedy the issue.
Which solution should be used?
If your IBM Cognos servers operate within a load balancing infrastructure, you can turn off the weighted round robin format of load balancing for the dispatcher. Otherwise, load balancing may be duplicated by the cluster and by IBM Cognos software, which can degrade performance.
You can set the dispatcher property named loadBalancingMode either to weightedRoundRobin or clusterCompatible.
References: IBM Cognos Administration Version 10.1.0, Administration and Security Guide, page 163
