IBM Cognos Analytics (Cognos 11) Installation Steps and Notes

Launch the installer program and Accept the license agreement

Choose a location to install the product

Choose the installation Type

Installation Options Available -
Ready to Run!
This install option is intended to help you get up and running with IBM Cognos Analytics in no time, without any
additional configuration and without the need to install any supporting software. With this install option, you get
the following with all the configuration already in place:
A full version of IBM Cognos Analytics software with all the new capabilities.
Informix 12.10 installed and configured for use as content store database.
Apache Directory Server to create and manage users.
Note: You can only perform one Ready to Run! Install on a machine.

Expand
This option helps you add more capacity to your initial Ready to Run! Install by installing the Application Tier
components on a separate machine. By performing an Expand install on a separate machine, you will also be able
to leverage the load-balancing capabilities built into IBM Cognos Analytics. Of course, we perform all the
configuration steps on your behalf.
Load-balancing is unavailable by default for the new REST bases services within Cognos Analytics at this
time. You may choose to use a third-party software/hardware load balancer to achieve this.
Your initial install must be up and running for the Expand install to be able to obtain and apply the
configuration.
Custom
We provide you with the full flexibility to pick and choose the IBM Cognos Analytics components that you want to
install. Maybe you want to customize or integrate IBM Cognos Analytics with third-party software. This is the
option you would want to select.

Once the installation process completes, you can click on the Launch Cognos Analytics link from the
installation wizard and login to IBM Cognos Analytics using the set of credentials you created earlier.
Optionally, you may also click on the post-installation tips link to check out some of the things you may
want to do right after an install such as install JDBC drivers to connect to your data.

There are three components that you may select to install as part of a Custom install option:
Application Tier: This installs the application tier which consists of the dispatcher and all the services. It is
responsible for running reports, schedules, etc.
Data Tier: This tier includes the Content Manager component, which maintains the connection to the
content store database.
Optional gateway: Only required if you plan on setting up advanced options such as Kerberos security
with IIS or third-party portal integration.
A] Custom

Data tier: Content Manager

Content Manager is the IBM Cognos Analytics service that manages the storage of customer application
data, including security, configuration data, models, metrics, report specifications, and report output.
Content Manager is needed to publish packages, retrieve or store report specifications, manage
scheduling information, and manage the Cognos namespace.

Application tier: components

The IBM Cognos Analytics applications tier contains one or more IBM Cognos Analytics servers. An
IBM Cognos Analytics server runs requests, such as reports, analyses, and queries, that are forwarded by
a gateway. An IBM Cognos Analytics server also renders the interfaces.

Optional Gateway tier: web communication

Gateways are often CGI programs, but may follow other standards, such as Internet Server Application
Program Interface (ISAPI), Apache Modules (apache_mod), or as a servlet implementation. IBM Cognos
Analytics only use the CGI, ISAPI or Apache module for Kerberos and some legacy features such as
portlets, otherwise you do not need to configure a gateway.

Note: The optional gateway is only needed for Kerberos and some legacy features such as portlets.
 Choose Custom installation Type
 Open Cognos Configuration

IBM Cognos configuration is configured with <HostName> URLs instead of localhost

 Note that IBM Cognos Analytics is by default configured to use Websphere Liberty Profile
Application Server with 4096 MB memory.

Start IBM Cognos services

B] Installation Method - Ready To Run
 After installing cognos component, the Installation Wizard configures cognos service with 9300
port by default. If the port is not available, port availability is checked at every +5 port and
service is configured with a LDAP namespace with anonymous access disabled

Wait for some time at the end of installation as it takes time to configure and start cognos
services.

IBM Cognos analytics is now ready to access with URL - http://<HostName>:<port>/bi/v1/disp

Things to know

The use of <install_location>\webapps\p2pd\WEB-INF\lib for locating JDBC drivers is

deprecated for future releases.
For the IBM Cognos Analytics 11.0.0 release, the JDBC drivers must be copied to
<Install_location>\drivers directories.
In Manage > Configuration, the value of Location of directory for data file must be changed to a
network path in all distributed environments.
Uploaded files and data modules in snapshot mode are saved on the file system. These data files
are not stored in the content store or in another database. The Configure and manage the
system administration capability is required to manage system settings. The default location for
data files is <install_location>\data\datafiles. If you have a distributed installation, use a
network path instead of the default local path.
There will be IT managed data sources which are inappropriate for users to create data modules
against. There is a new property on JDBC data sources, accessible only through Cognos
Administration, which can be used to prohibit the use of web-based modeling. By default, JDBC
data source connections created in Cognos Administration are not exposed in the Manage >
Data servers area for use in Data Modules.
Checking the Data source connectionsConnection tab, Allow web-based modeling check box in
Cognos Administration enables that data source connection to be used to create Data Modules.
The default permissions are such that the data server connection is only accessible by the
creator and privileged administrators.
Existing customers will probably want to use some of your existing (upgraded) data source
connections to create data modules, but until you check the Allow web-based modeling box on
one of your data source connections, you won't be able to.