Exporting custom reports (single server integration architecture)

Before you install Network Manager on the same server as your existing Netcool Configuration Manager installation, you must export any custom reports. You also disable and uninstall the existing Netcool Configuration Manager version of Tivoli Common Reporting.

Before you begin

You export reports before installing Network Manager only when all of the following circumstances apply to your scenario:
  • You are already running Tivoli Common Reporting as part of an existing, non-integrated Netcool Configuration Manager installation.
  • You are about to install Network Manager on the same server as your existing version of Netcool Configuration Manager.
  • You have customized Netcool Configuration Manager reports that need to be migrated into your planned integrated solution.

About this task

When you install the Network Manager version of Tivoli Common Reporting on the same server as your existing version of Netcool Configuration Manager, existing reports are deleted. To migrate such reports into an integrated solution, you export them before installing Network Manager, and then import them again after you have completed all installation and integration tasks.
Remember: You do not have to migrate the standard Netcool Configuration Manager reports, because these will be installed together with the Network Manager version of Tivoli Common Reporting (in addition to a number of Network View reports). You only migrate reports you have customized since installing the standard reports, or new reports you have created.

Procedure

  1. Log into the Netcool Configuration Manager version of Tivoli Common Reporting using the following url:
    http://hostname:16310/ibm/console
    where hostname is the name of your Netcool Configuration Manager server and 16310 is the default port number for Tivoli Common Reporting.
  2. Click Reporting > Common Reporting.
  3. Click Launch on the toolbar, and then select Administration from the drop-down menu.
  4. Select the Configuration tab, then click Content Administration.
  5. Click New Export to launch the New Export wizard.
  6. Enter a name and description for the report export, then click Next.
  7. Accept the default deployment method and click Next.
  8. Click the Add link and select the ITNCM Reports checkbox, then move ITNCM Reports to the Selected Entries list.
  9. Click OK, then Next > Next > Next, accepting the default values.
  10. Select New archive, then Next > Next, accepting the default values..
  11. Click Finish > Run > OK.
    The reports are exported and the new export archive is displayed.
  12. Navigate to the following directory:
    /opt/IBM/tivoli/netcool/ncm/tipv2Components/TCRComponent/cognos/deployment,
    where you can view the report archive, for example:
    -rw-r--r-- 1 icosuser staff 262637 23 Feb 10:27 ncm_export.zip
    where ncm_export.zip is the report archive.
  13. Copy the file to a safe location on the server, such as your home directory.
  14. Navigate to the following directory:
    /opt/IBM/tivoli/netcool/ncm/bin/utils/support
  15. Run the setPlatform.sh script:
    bash-3.2$ ./setPlatform.sh, disable Reporting, then exit.
  16. Uninstall Tivoli Common Reporting using the uninstall_reports.sh script: 
    cd /opt/IBM/tivoli/netcool/ncm
./reporting/ITNCMReports/uninstall_reports.sh

Results

You have exported the custom reports and uninstalled Tivoli Common Reporting.

What to do next

Next, you complete the remaining installation and integration tasks. After that, you import the archived reports.