Install Content Manager

Content Manager stores and manages IBM® Cognos® content, including user permissions. Content Manager must be configured, running, and accessible before you configure other computers in your IBM Cognos environment.

This ensures that the certificate authority service, which is installed with Content Manager, is available to issue certificates to other IBM Cognos computers.

Figure 1. Content Manager installation in a medium-sized environment
Content Manager is on the application tier, and must be installed first.

Procedure

  1. If you are installing to a directory with other IBM Cognos components, stop the IBM Cognos service.
  2. Insert the IBM Cognos Planning Complete CD or go to the installation source file directory.

    The Welcome page of the installation wizard appears when you insert the CD.

    If no Welcome page appears or you are not installing from the CD, go to the win32 directory, and double-click issetup.exe.

  3. Select the language to use for the installation.

    The language that you select determines the language of the user interface. You can change the language to any of the installed languages after installation.

  4. In the Component Selection page, select Content Manager.

    If you are installing it in a directory that contains other IBM Cognos components, you are prompted for the location of a directory in which to store backup copies of the files that will be overwritten.

  5. In the Finish page of the installation wizard, do the following:
    • If you want to configure Content Manager immediately, click Start IBM Cognos Configuration.
    • If you want to see late-breaking information about IBM Cognos components, click View the Readme.
  6. Click Finish.
Parent topic: Installing and Configuring in a Medium-Sized Environment