Missing link to Cognos administration

[maevr]

I have just installed Cognos 8.4.1 32bit on a Windows 2008 Server 64bit system using SQL Server 2008 64bit, configured IIS7 according to specifications, adding allowPathInfo="true" in the file inetsrv\config\applicationHost.config.

I can connect to the website but I do not seem to find the link to Cognos administration.

Any ideas?

[IceTea]

Please post a hardcopy of the screen where you miss the Administration link.

Please also check your user credibilities in "own preferences" - which roles and groups does your user belong to?

[maevr]

It should be in the welcome screen, but it is not, neither in the launch dropdown.
I have not set any security in Cognos Configuration so everyone should have the link.

When I looked under "Own preferences" i saw that I belong to the Administrators NTLM group but not the Cognos Administrators group.

Sorry for not posting any picture.

[MFGF]

Hi,

In order for Cognos Administration to function properly,  you may need to manually edit C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\config\applicationhost.config.

Check for the following entry: (CGI_Cognos is whatever you called your module mapping to get Cognos CGI running in IIS)

<add name='CGI-cognos' path='*.cgi' verb='*' modules='CgiModule' resourceType='Unspecified' />

and add allowPathInfo='true' to it, so it looks like this:

<add name='CGI-cognos' path='*.cgi' verb='*' modules='CgiModule' resourceType='Unspecified' allowPathInfo='true' />

Cheers!

MF.