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Cognos TM1 Performance Review – on a budget!
Often I am asked to conduct a “performance review” of implemented Cognos TM1 applications “rather quickly” when realistically; a detailed architectural review must be extensive and takes some time....
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“Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise.” – Denis Waitley In all professions, and especially information services (IT), success and marketability depends upon an individual’s...
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Give Me Splunk!
So you are ready to Splunk and you want to get started? Well.. Taking the First Step Your first step, before you download any installation packages, is to review the Splunk Software License Agreement,...
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Thank you for downloading Splunk Enterprise. Get started now…
Once you have found your way to the (Splunk.com) website and downloaded your installation file, you can initiate the installation process. At this point you would have received the...
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Searching with Splunk
It would be remiss in a blog on Splunk searching without at least mentioning the 6.0 version dashboard. The Search dashboard If you take a look at the Splunk search dashboard (and you should), you can...
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Tag Splunk, you’re it!
Splunk does a wonderful job of searching through all of the data you’ve indexed, based upon your search command pipeline. There are times though that you can add additional intelligence to the search...
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Splunk Lookups
All that machine generated information may be full of distinctive identifiers and result or status codes; (which may be effectual for processing and storage but not always easily understood by you or...
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Rapidly Adaptive Visualizations
I was “lucky” enough to be selected to “go on the road” this year as part of my organizations presence at the IBM business analytics summits, taking pace all over the country. If you...
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You can re-index Splunk
Your organization has figured out that critical business insight exists in machine data. As the Splunk website points out, “Machine data contains a definitive record of all activity and behavior of...
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Managing Splunk Indexes
When you add your “big” data to Splunk, it will process it and store it in a index (either the default main index or one you specify!). You, (as a Splunk administrator), have the ability (and...
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Scrubbing Events from your Splunk Searches
There is a special operator delete in Splunk you can use to pre-scrub events from your Splunk searches. What it does is “flag” events so that your future searches do not return them. Even though a user...
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Iconic Splunk Apps
Give your App an Icon You can add a trendy, unique graphic to identify your Splunk apps pretty easily. In fact, you really don’t have to do any extra programming or even re-configuring. By just knowing...
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Build Splunk App Custom Navigations
So you’ve created a custom Splunk app and added in plenty of relevant knowledge objects your users want. Now, to organize this mess of information what you need to do is build a custom navigation for...
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Splunk, it’s a setup
In Splunk Web, if you click on Apps, you should see a link for Manage Apps. From there, Splunk web will display the Apps page where you can see all of the apps currently installed in your Splunk...
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Flexible Meta Models and IBM Cognos Framework Manager
A metadata model is “a gathering of Meta information that includes both physical information and business information for one or more datasources and is the foundation for both future modelling and...
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IBM Cognos Framework Manager – Proven Practice
A proven practice for Framework Manager Meta Modeling is to divide your model into a series of layers, each layer having a specific purpose. (Originally IBM recommended the use of two layers (data and...
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Cognos Framework Manager, Transformer & Metric Designer
During a recent project of mine, I jumped “head first” into IBM Cognos Framework Manager. Yes, it is an awesome tool, but where exactly does it “fit” into the Cognos environment? Are there similar or...
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Creating Business Logic – in Cognos Framework Manager
One of the goals of the Cognos Framework Manager modeler is to build a model that makes report authoring easier. To accomplish that, you “build in” business logic” (a loosely defined term here) into...
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Framework Manager – Creating a Parameter Map
A session parameter is a variable that IBM Cognos Framework Manager associates with a particular session. Examples include (current user name, current active language, current date and time, and...
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Exercising IBM Cognos Framework Manager
In Framework Manager, an expression is any combination of operators, constants, functions, and other components that evaluates to a single value. You can build expressions to create calculation and...
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