Cognos TM1 Installation and Configuration

Last updated on Sep 27 2021
Rahul Nair

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Cognos TM1 Installation and Configuration

TM1 Installation and Configuration is extremely easy to do. Still, developers find it difficult to believe that it would be this easy. I have seen people drawing blank when the installation wizard asks for surely information. So just for the sake of documenting easing, we’ll start the beginner topic.

For someone with even basic computer skills, it should be a piece of cake to install TM1.

So here go the screen shots of installation:

1.Launch the wizard

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Launch the wizard

2. Then select the disk location during which you want to install your TM1. I selected C:\Program Files\Cognos\TM1 as my disk location.

3. Select the components that you want to install.

TM1 Architect – This component is for developers. They can use this tool for developing TM1 models. We’d be using this tool the most in our tutorials.

TM1 API, TM1 Java API, TM1 .NET API – As their name suggests, they’re APIs. They can be employed to create tools which interact to TM1.

TM1 Web Components – If you want to access TM1 models using an internet (or intranet) website, you’d have to install TM1 web components on a web server. On a distributed environment, these components are installed on a separate web server. You need to have IIS to use TM1web.

TM1 Perspective and TM1 client – TM1 perspective is an excel add-in. In layman language, it’s a Microsoft excel component and can be employed to connect to TM1 application server using Microsoft excel. Using this tool, a TM1 end user can get and send data from and to a TM1 server.

TM1 Admin server – TM1 admin server is an administrative server which keeps track of application server. It’s like a headmaster of a school. Each teacher (application server) needs to report to the headmaster before doing anything. If you want to talk to the teacher (application server) you better ask the headmaster (admin server) whether the teacher (application server) is available.

TM1 Server – It’s required if you want to create TM1 models on a server. Without TM1 server component you can’t create your virtual application server.

TM1Top – It’s a utility to monitor user activity on TM1 application servers.

TM1 Contributor – It’s required to set up TM1 contributor which can be employed to create and host TM1 contributor applications of models that you created in TM1.

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TM1 Contributor

4. Keep admin host port and SSL port number as they appear on your system. As we’re installing it on a single machine, there is no need to change these settings.

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Admin host port

5. Supply your computer-name\some-admin-name and password. Here my computer name is dell so, I supplyd dell\administrator. I could have employed dell\amit if I want to run my services with account amit (which exists on my system/server) or maybe you can create an admin service account in your windows installation and supply those credentials here. Anyway, you’ve to supply some account so that TM1 services (admin server and application server) could run using that account.

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Password

6. Install it.

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Install

7.Done.

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Done

So, this brings us to the end of blog. This Tecklearn ‘Cognos TM1 Installation and Configuration’ blog helps you with commonly asked questions if you are looking out for a job in Cognos TM1. If you wish to learn Cognos TM1 and build a career in Business Intelligence domain, then check out our interactive, Cognos TM1 Training, that comes with 24*7 support to guide you throughout your learning period. Please find the link for course details:

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About the Course

Tecklearn’s Cognos TM1 training will make you proficient in building and configuring models in Cognos TM1 using performance modeler tool. Some of the topics included in this Cognos TM1 training are creation and configuration of TM1 servers, building Cubes and Views, creating dimensions, deploying Turbo Integrator for loading and maintaining data and transferring data using scripts. etc., in working with real-time projects, and this will enable you to become a certified Cognos TM1 developer.

Why Should you take Cognos TM1 Training?

  • The Average salary for a Cognos TM1 Developer is $117,816 per annum – ZipRecruiter.com.
  • Cognos TM1 has a market share of about 11.87%.
  • Solution that is owned by Financial and Business analysts, with limited IT involvement, but consistent with IT’s governance.

Curriculum

Introduction to Cognos TM1

  • Concepts of Multi-dimensional OLAP database
  • Cognos TM1 Installation
  • TM1 Servers and Services
  • TM1 Workflow
  • TM1 User Interfaces
  • Turbo Integrator

Cognos TM1 Configuration

  • Managing TM1 Components and Tasks
  • Operations on TM1 Servers: Start, Stop and adding TM1 Servers
  • TM1 Web, Applications and Operations Console
  • Using Command prompt create or delete Desktop/Windows services
  • Hands On

Creating Dimensions

  • Manual creation of Dimensions
  • Create Product Dimensions and Measure Dimensions
  • Dynamic Subset Creation
  • Sparse and Dense Dimensions
  • Using Turbo Integrator ETL create cubes, review Cubes and Dimensions
  • Create Subset, assign Subset, Dimensional Manipulation
  • Performance Monitoring
  • Control Cubes
  • TM1 Web and Rules in TM1
  • Cube related attributes, dimension related attributes
  • Hands On

Building Cubes and Views

  • Building Cubes
  • Building Views
  • Bulk Load Mode
  • Creating Data Source through TM1 Turbo Integrator
  • Hands On

TM1 Security

  • Various security levels including Server level, Cube level, Dimension level
  • Concepts of Security in TM1
  • Creation of Client & Group and access privileges
  • Cube Level Security
  • Hands On

TM1 Data Spreading

  • TM1 Data Spreading and Recreating dimension
  • Attributes element types
  • Cube control elements
  • Dimension elements
  • Drill Assignment rules
  • Trace a feeder and feed strings
  • Hands On

Cognos TM1 Rules

  • Understanding TM1 rules
  • TM1 Rules Editor and Rules compilation using functions
  • Rule performance optimization
  • Element information rules functions
  • Cube manipulation Turbo Integrator functions
  • D-type in TM1
  • ELCOMP & ELISCOMP Functions
  • ELISPAR & ELWEIGHT Functions
  • Hands On

Advanced Scripting with Turbo Integrator

  • Advanced Scripting with Turbo Integrator
  • Deploying Dimension subsets and attributes
  • Editing procedures using scripts
  • Hands On

Advanced Modelling Techniques

  • Significance of advanced modelling
  • Manually adding objects to application design
  • Understanding application views, dimensions and hierarchy
  • Virtual cubes, Lookup cubes and spread profile cube
  • Hands On

TM1 Application Web

  • TM1 Web Applications
  • Creating TM1 Application
  • Working with TM1 Application Web
  • Snapshots in TM1 application
  • Adding MDX filters and Action button properties
  • Active forms, TM1 user and data formatting range
  • Hands On

 

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