Installing and Upgrading IBM Control Center
Carefully read this section to understand the procedures and best practices for the installation of IBM® Control Center.
- Installation notes
All IBM Control Center maintenance releases and specific fixes require a complete installation to include previous maintenance release fixes. - Installation overview
You must complete multiple task before you install IBM Control Center. - Installing maintenance and fixes
All IBM Control Center maintenance releases and specific fixes require that you perform a complete installation and include previous maintenance release fixes. - Required operating system patches
Install required operating system patches before you install IBM Control Center. - Overview of the IBM Control Center databases
The IBM Control Center engine uses DB2®, Oracle, or Microsoft SQL Server production and staging databases to store statistics and other information collected from monitored servers. In addition, Cognos® Business Intelligence server uses a reports database to generate IBM Control Center reports. - Determine HTTPS information for the engine and console connection
You need to determine HTTPS information for the engine and console connection before you install IBM Control Center. - HTTPS worksheet
Enter your HTTPS requirements in the following worksheet and refer to it during IBM Control Center installation. Complete a worksheet for every computer on which the engine or a console is to be installed. Make additional copies as needed. - Install IBM Control Center
- Performing a quick installation
If you are upgrading to the latest maintenance version of IBM Control Center and none of your configuration parameters have changed, you can use the quick installation option on Microsoft Windows and UNIX operating systems. With the quick installation option, you can avoid running the configCC utility and configuring Cognos Business Intelligence. - Falling back to a previous version
You can fall back from V6.0 to a previous release of IBM Control Center using a previously backed up V5.x conf folder.. - Uninstalling IBM Control Center
To uninstall IBM Control Center, follow these steps. - Reinstalling IBM Control Center
- Considerations for upgrading IBM Control Center with IBM Cognos
Before you upgrade IBM Control Center to a newer version, there are some items to consider with IBM Cognos. These considerations are to alert you about information or tasks to complete.