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Introduction<br />
What Is in This Document<br />
Other Documentation<br />
Questions or Comments?<br />
The PowerPlay Enterprise Server Guide shows you how to administer PowerPlay servers and<br />
deploy cubes and reports to PowerPlay users in the Windows environment or on the Web.<br />
This document contains<br />
• an overview of deploying PowerPlay reporting for the enterprise<br />
• information on configuring and securing your PowerPlay servers and their processes<br />
• cube and server deployment tasks using the PowerPlay Enterprise Server administration tool<br />
• details on setting up drill through from cubes<br />
• syntax for using the ppadmtool command-line utility<br />
The Enterprise Server Guide does not include information about administering Upfront, Access<br />
Manager, Cognos ReportNet, or Cognos 8. Please see the Upfront Server Administrator Guide,<br />
the Access Manager Administrator Guide, the Cognos ReportNet Administration and Security<br />
Guide, and the Cognos 8 Administration and Security Guide.<br />
This document is also available in Acrobat format from the PowerPlay Enterprise Server<br />
administration tool (Help menu).<br />
Our documentation includes user guides, tutorial guides, reference books, and other pieces to<br />
meet the needs of our varied audience.<br />
All information is available in online help. Online help is available from the Help button in a Web<br />
browser, or the Help menu and Help button in Windows products.<br />
The information in each online help system is available in online book format (PDF). However,<br />
the information from a given help system may be divided into more than one online book. Use<br />
online books when you want a printed version of a document or when you want to search the<br />
whole document. You can print selected pages, a section, or the whole book. Cognos grants you a<br />
non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use, copy, and reproduce the copyright materials, in<br />
printed or electronic format, solely for the purpose of providing internal training on, operating,<br />
and maintaining the Cognos software.<br />
In Windows products, online books are available from the Windows Start menu (Cognos) and<br />
from the product Help menu (Books for Printing). In a Web browser, online books may be<br />
available from the Welcome section of the help system, or from within the Cognos Web portal.<br />
You can also read the product readme files and the installation guides directly from the Cognos<br />
product CDs.<br />
Only the installation guides are available as printed documents.<br />
An annotated list of other documentation, the Documentation Roadmap, is available from the<br />
Windows Start menu.<br />
For additional technical information about using PowerPlay Enterprise Server, visit the Cognos<br />
Global Customer Services Web site (http://support.cognos.com) or Knowledge Base<br />
(http://support.cognos.com/kb-app/knowledgebase).<br />
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