Installing and Configuring IBM Cognos 8 Components on One Computer

You can install all IBM Cognos 8 components on one computer. This is useful when you are setting up a test or evaluation environment, or for small production environments. To use IBM Cognos 8, you must install all components that are selected by default in the installation wizard.

We recommend that you do an interactive installation

You can also distribute the installation of IBM Cognos 8 on different computers. For more information, see Installing IBM Cognos 8 Server Components on Different Computers.

Use the following checklist to guide you through installing IBM Cognos 8 on one computer:

	Install IBM Cognos 8 server components
	Install the IBM Cognos 8 Metric Manager, if required
	Update the Java environment
	Set up database connectivity for the content store database
	Set up database connectivity for the reporting databases.
	Start IBM Cognos Configuration
	Configure environment properties
	Enable security
	Set the database connection properties for the content store
	Specify a mail server account
	Start the IBM Cognos 8 services
	Configure the Web server
	Set up the data source or import source environment
	Create the metric store database
	Set up the database client for the metric store, if required
	Create a metric package
	Test the installation and configuration

When you have finished, you may want to install IBM Cognos 8 Metrics Manager. Install the Metrics Manager component in the same location as the IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence component. For example, install the IBM Cognos 8 Metrics Manager Content Manager component to the same location as you installed the IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence Content Manager component.

Next, you must install Framework Manager . If you are using PowerCubes, you must install Transformer .

For uninstalling instructions, see Uninstalling IBM Cognos 8.