This document discusses installing and configuring IBM Cognos Business Intelligence for Connections Activities V4.0. It covers prerequisites, installing WebSphere Application Server, installing Cognos software, configuring properties, installing and validating Cognos, federating the Cognos server, applying fix packs, configuring LDAP authentication, accessing global and community metrics, troubleshooting Cognos cubes errors, rebuilding cubes, and regular maintenance tasks.
2. And you are?
Sharon Bellamy Greg Kutinov
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11 years WebSphere Integrating ICS products
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3. Agenda
• Installation
• Configuring and federating
• Patching
• Configuring LDAP
• Metric and Connections
• I H S configuration
• Configuring cubes
• Metrics mastered
5. PreRequisites
• Databases – create the Cognos & Metrics DBs
• WAS (7.0.0.21) – installed, patched
• DB2 client installed on Cognos machine and
configured to connect to the DBs above
• Cognos software
7. Product versions
The whole Cognos bundle - IBM Cognos Business
Intelligence for Connections Activities V4.0 Multilingual
Multiplatform eAssembly (CRJU4ML):
1. IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Server 10.1.1 : 64-
bit Windows (CI5VMML), 32-bit Windows (CI5VLML), 32-
bit AIX (CI5VSML), 64-bit AIX (CI5VTML), 32-bit Linux x86
(CI5W6ML), 64-bit Linux x86 (CI5W7ML), 32-bit Linux on
System z (CI5W4ML), 64-bit Linux on System z (CI5W5ML)
2. IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Transformer 10.1.1 :
Windows (CI2Q1ML), AIX (CI2Q4ML), Linux x86 CI2Q6ML,
Linux on System z (CI2QHML)
8. OS patching & preparing
• Patch the OS: TL0 SP3 Recommended Base Patch
Level (AIX); compat-libstdc++-33
compat-glibc-2.3.2, openmotif-2.2.3 (Linux RH)… -
http://www-
01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg270224
63#linux
• DB2client – catalog a node with the Metrics db for
Transformer (db2 catalog tcpip…/ db )
• PowerCubes folder – local for Windows only
• CognosConfig.zip or CognosConfig.tar
• Provide 4 JDBC drivers - /CognosSetup/BI-
Customization/JDBC
10. Installing
• cognos-setup.log:
All properties provided for Cognos database
All properties provided for Metrics database
JDBC Connection Success
Success to verify the JDBC connection to Cognos Content
Store database.
JDBC Connection Success
Success to verify the JDBC connection to Metrics database.
... performing validation check completed
Installing Cognos ...
BUILD SUCCESSFUL…
11. Configuring & federating
• cognos-configure.log
…Finished Import Metrics Report Package into Cognos
Setup Cube path variable into Cognos
Finished Setup Cube path variable into Cognos…
…All forward references were resolved
Finished Setup Cube Models…
-> the folder metricsmodel appears within the
Transformer installation directory
• Federating the Cognos node:
addNode deployment.server.com
–profileName iCognos –includeapps
• Verifying the cognos node get started & synchronized,
then starting the cognos server
14. Applying fix packs
• cognos.biserver.install.path to be specified
during installation of the fix pack
• Generating a new cognos.ear file with cognos-
setup-update
• Replacing the “entire application” with a new
cognos.ear on the Deployment Manager (run
the cognos node and resynchronize)
• Updating the Cognos server configuration
with cognos-configure-update
24. Useful Documentation
• Installing WebSphere Application Server for Cognos Business Intelligence
• Installing DB client for Cognos Transformer
• Installing required patches on the Cognos BI Server system
• Installing Cognos Business Intelligence components
• Configuring Cognos Business Intelligence after installation
• Federating the Cognos server to the Deployment Manager
• Validating the Cognos BI server installation
• Configuring Cognos Business Intelligence