Configuration Guide for IBM Cognos 10 & HTTP Server 7.

0 Step by Step Detailed Guide

Saravanan Vajjiravel

17-Nov-2011

Contents
Introduction ................................................................................................................................................. 3 Software Prerequisite ................................................................................................................................. 3 Configuring and Starting IBM Cognos 10 BI Server .............................................................................. 4 Configure HTTP Server for IBM Cognos 10.1 ......................................................................................... 8

IBM Cognos 10.1 Configuration Guide

Introduction
This installation guide provides instructions for installing and configuring IBM Cognos Configuration and HTTP Server 7.0 in the following environment. Operating Systems AIX 6.1 / AIX 7.1 Red Hat Linux 5.x HP-UX Itanium 11.31

Software Prerequisite
This document assumes that you have installed the prerequisite software in the following order on IBM AIX 7.0 Operating System. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. IBM IBM IBM IBM IBM Cognos 10 BI Server Cognos 10 Data Manager (optional) Cognos 10 BI Transformer (optional) Cognos 10 Metric Manager (optional) VVM (optional)

6. IBM HTTP Server 7.0

Configuring and Starting IBM Cognos 10 BI Server

1. Log into AIX/UNIX machine with non-root user credentials. 2. Set DISPLAY property with your local machine as shown below: $ export DISPLAY=10.80.18.72:0.0

3. Go to <IBM Cognos 10 Installation Home>/bin directory $ cd /sci01/cognos/c10/bin

4. Start the Cognos Configuration. $ ./cogconfig.sh The Cognos Configuration window is displayed. Important: Replace the following in all the URLS Local host with your server name or IP address. ibmcognos with sci. 80 with your Web Server Port Number.

5. If you wish to create new instance for Content Manager database; Right click Content Manger and create a new instance. 6. Input the name and select the database type (Oracle or DB2) from the drop down list.

Database server and port number: Specify the name or TCP/IP address of the database computer and port number.

Example: localhost:1521

User ID and password: Specify the user ID and password that the database uses to connect to the content store.

Service name:

Specify the service name (SID) for the Oracle database instance. Example: XPERTCOG
7. Adjust other options if necessary, save configuration and test the content store connection.

8. Save & Start the Cognos 8 service using Cognos Configuration.

Click the Start icon to start the server.

While running Cognos configuration you may get the following warning message. This is because the SMTP server connection is not configured. Click OK and proceed ahead by ignoring this warning message. Click Continue on the next screen.

Once all services got started successfully, close and exit the screen.

Configure HTTP Server for IBM Cognos 10.1

Please follow the below steps to configure IBM Cognos 10.1 on IBM HTTP Server 7.0. 1. Edit the httpd.conf file located under <HTTPServer Home>/conf (i.e. /etc/HTTPServer/conf) 2. Go to end of the file and append the below Cognos Configuration Settings as shown. # START Cognos Configuration section ScriptAlias /cognos10/cgi-bin/ "/xpertcog/cognos/c10/cgi-bin/" Alias /cognos10/help "/xpertcog/cognos/c10/webcontent/documentation/en" Alias /cognos10 "/xpertcog/cognos/c10/webcontent" Alias /logs "/sci01/apps/sci/logs" # END SCI section # START SCI section <Directory "/xpertcog/cognos/c10/cgi-bin"> Options None AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> <Directory "/xpertcog/cognos/c10/webcontent"> Options None AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> <Directory "/xpertcog/cognos/c10/webcontent/documentation/en"> Options None AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> <Directory "/xpertcog/apps/sci/logs"> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> #END SCI section 3. Save the file. 4. Start the HTTP Server. Commands: $ cd /etc/HTTPServer/bin (locate HTTP Server bin path) $ export DISPLAY=10.80.18.72:0.0 ignore this if you are already done. $ ./apachectl start

5. Post successful start, you could able to see the below IBM Cognos Screen.