Setting up email notification is required to send out reports from Query Studio or Reports Studio via email.
Steps
- From the Windows Start menu, select .
- Under the Explorer column at the end, select Notification.
- On the right side of the Notification screen, enter the following information:
- SMTP mail server: Enter the server name registered in DNS or SMTP server IP, for example, 10.10.10.10:25.
- Account and password needed to log into the mail server.
- Default sender: Enter the email account that was added to the generated emails as the sender, for example, user@domain.com.
- Select .
- In the Cognos Configuration window, right-click Local Configuration, and then select Restart to restart the Cognos service.
You could also select or Start if the server is not running.
- Test the email server setting:
- From the Windows Start menu, select .
- Right-click Notification, and then select Test.