One of the main responsibilities of an administrator is to keep an eye on what is going on in the system currently. For this, the Status tab of the Cognos BI Administration portal is of great help. It gives a nearly true picture of what really is happening in the Cognos environment at the moment. Let's now discuss each and every portion of this tab in detail. Once the administrator has logged in and navigated to the administration section, the default page that is shown is the Status tab. The screenshot present under the Current Activities heading shows how it looks.
The default view of the Status tab (as shown in the following screenshot) is Current Activities, which shows the currently running background activities. Background activities are the batch processes.
All the currently running background activities are shown on the right-hand side of the portal page. The following screenshot shows a view of the running background (batch) activities. The administrator...