Checklist for reporting servers

Applies to:

Do the following tasks on each reporting server (active and standby) before you install IBM OpenPages®:

Check that all of the required ports are available. See Port assignments.
If you're using Linux®, give the OpenPages installation user (opuser) read, write, and execute permissions to the IBM® Cognos® Analytics installation directory.
Also give the installation user read, write, and execute permissions to the IBM Semeru Runtimes directory.
If you are using a horizontal cluster for the reporting servers, set up the load balancer.
If the database server is on a separate computer, install the database client software on each reporting server and test the connection.
- If you are using IBM Db2®, see Db2 database client installations.
- If you are using Oracle, see Oracle database client installations.
Install and configure a web server. See Web server configuration options for IBM Cognos Analytics.
If you are using Linux, ensure that you have the 32-bit and 64-bit libraries required by Cognos.
Install IBM Cognos Analytics. See Installing IBM Cognos Analytics.
- Optional: Include the Cognos Framework Manager when you install IBM Cognos Analytics.
Copy the JDBC driver to the reporting servers.
Configure the connection to the content store.
- If you are using IBM Db2, see Configuring a connection to the content store (Db2).
- If you are using Oracle, see Configuring a connection to the content store (Oracle).
Start Cognos services. See Saving your settings and starting the IBM Cognos services.
Prepare the server for IBM OpenPages reporting.
- If you are using IBM Db2 for the Cognos database, enable a connection between OpenPages Reporting and the database server. See Enabling the connection to a Db2 database from the OpenPages Reporting computer.
- If you are using Oracle for the Cognos database, do the following tasks:
  - Set environment variables for Reporting on each reporting server.
  - Test the connection to the OpenPages database on the database server.