Creating a separate user for cognos: * Create a user and group with name cognos. * create a directory /opt/ibm and assign full rights to cognos and group on this directory. * Java is required for cognos installer, service and configuration windows, therefore, you will need to install latest (but compatible) java on your linux machine. * Add JAVA_HOME variable to .bash_profile file of cognos user and also add java library paths to LD_LIBRARY_PATH variables. Java bin path should be added to PATH variable.
Cognos Installation: * Open a terminal window and change directory to cognos setup directory. * Start the "issetup" (execute it ./issetup). * If your Java is installed correctly and JAVA environment variables are configured properly then setup will start. * Another reason why your setup might not start is that the dependency RPMs are not installed. Setup will fail to start giving you appropriate message. You will need to start those RPMs before starting cognos setup. * Assuming setup started successfully, we are proceeding now to next step. * Setup will ask you for very basis questions e.g. installation path & components to install. * We will install all components (gateway, content manager & application/dispatcher) on one linux box making it single tier architecture. * Select all components and install cognos. It will take some time to copy files to your server and doing basic startup configuration. * You will need to configure each cognos component before you are able to successfully.
Cognos Configuration: * First of all copy the folder /opt/ibm/cognos/c10_64/configuration and make its backup to some place. if our configuration fails, we can replace it with our backup files, this will avoid reinstallation. * Open cognos configuration by running script <cognos install