Руководство Пользователя для Cisco Cisco Workload Automation 6.3

Configuring the Cognos Adapter

Configuring the HTTPS Protocol

For complete instructions on configuring Cognos servers to use the HTTP or HTTPS protocol, refer to the Cognos 
documentation that ships with the product.

Obtain Security Certificates

From a Windows desktop, you can obtain a security certificates for each target Cognos server using the Microsoft 
Internet Explorer Certificate Cache.

Although other procedures are available for obtaining the required certificates, the procedure below can be 

performed from your Windows desktop.

You need to carry out the following instructions only if your server certificate is generated in-house (that is, 

self-signed) or if your server certificate is signed by a Certification Authority that is not trusted by the version of Java you 
are using. Alternatively, if your adapter connection fails by reporting the error “unable to find valid certification path to 
requested target” you need to carry out the following instructions.

Open the Internet Explorer browser and navigate to the following dispatch URL (replacing servername and port as it 
applies to your environment).

https://<cognos_server:https port>/cognos8/p2pd/dispatch

A 

 message displays.

Click 

 to open the 

 dialog.

Click 

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On the 

 

 panel, click 

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On the 

 panel, use the default option 

 and click 

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On the 

 panel, click 

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