You can enable email notifications in Cognos to receive alerts when a new report version becomes available.
Before you start
Before enabling email notifications in Cognos, your IT team will need to do the following:
- Create an email distribution group for a generic default sender, such as NotificationAnalytics@yourcompany.com.
- Ensure that there are no members in the email distribution group.
- Ensure that the Cognos server IP address is added to the SMTP gateway server to allow email relay.
- Before following the instructions below, telnet from the Cognos server to verify email relay is successful.
Cognos email notifications configuration
- Launch the Cognos Configuration Tool on the Cognos server.
- Navigate to the Notification menu on the left pane.
- Add the following fields:
- SMTP mail server IP address and port number
- SMTP server account name and password
- If there is no username and password, leave it blank
- Default sender email address
- This address is the distribution group that will be used as the email's default sender
- Leave the SSL encryption as False unless you require your emails to be encrypted, then change it to True.
- Right-click on Notification and select Test.