Procedure to Install Application Tier of IBM®
Cognos® Analytics 11.1.x
Important: You must specify fully qualified host names in the values for the following
Cognos Configuration fields. Each value you specify must also appear in either the field
or the field .
- Gateway URI
- External dispatcher URI
- Internal dispatcher URI
- Dispatcher URI for external applications
- Content Manager URIs
- Group contact host
- Member coordination host
-
Procedure
- Download installer executable and repository zip files.
- Double-click installer file.
- Select IBM Cognos Analytics and install location.
- If you want shortcut available to all users, click Check
box.
- Select Installation Type as Customand click
Next.
- Check Application Tier.
- Review installation options and click Install.
- Review any error messages.
- Installation log files are found here:
<installLocation/uninstall/logs>
- Click Done.
- In your Drivers folder
<InstallLocation\drivers>, place appropriate JDBC drivers for
Content Store and Audit databases.
- Launch Cognos Configuration.
- Click Environment
- Change HTTP to HTTPS if SSL is being
used.
- If a gateway is to be installed, modify the Gateway URI using the
following format:
<webserverName:webserverPort/alias/bi/v1/disp>
- If the Application server is installed on the same server as another instance of
IBM Cognos Analyticsand that instance was not running at the time the
Application Tier was installed, ensure that the following ports are adjusted to open ports:
- External Dispatcher URI
- Internal Dispatcher URI
- Dataset Service Port Number
- Dispatcher URI for External Applications
- Right Click
- Set the UserID, password, namespace and URL as configured by the Content
Tier
- Set the Member Synchronization port and Member
Coordination port.
- Click Logging and adjust the local log server port
number.
- Under Other URI Settings click the next to Content Manager
URI's and add the server and port for the Content Tier that was
previously installed.
- Configure the Audit Database.
- Right click on .
- Set the name to Audit.
- Set the type to Database.
- Right click on .
- Set the name Audit.
- Select the type Select your database type.
- Select the database server and port number from Content Tier
set up.
- Set database user ID and password from Content Tier set
up.
- Set the database name and encryption from Content Tier set
up.
- Configure a Notification store.
- Right Click .Fill out the following:
- Set the name Notification Store
- Type - select your notification store database type
- Database server and port number.
- User ID and password.
- Database name.
- Encryption.
- Test configuration to ensure settings are valid.
- Click on
The mail
server connection test will fail if mail server is not configured.
- Start the Application Tier.
- You can now access Cognos Analytics at
<apllicationtierserver:portnumber/bi>