The Reporting System MBean periodically pings the Cognos (when it is installed and enabled) and reports on its availability, including the providing of notifications when the system availability changes. It also exposes various administrative operations against it.

This MBean can be deployed in both servlet engine and method server JVMs, but is only deployed in the servlet engine by default. The Reporting System MBean’s existence, life cycle, and configuration persistence are controlled by the Loader MBean.