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A). Installing the Oracle 10g Express Edition
B). Creating Content Store in Cognos Configuration
C). Creating Environments Variables
D). Creating Virtual Directories
E). Accessing the cognos 8 Bi
We have oracle 10g express edition which you can download from oracle website.
Run the OracleXEUniv Set up .exe file from the system.
Oracle Database 10g Express Edition (Oracle Database XE) is a free version of the world's most capable relational database. Oracle Database XE is easy to install.With Oracle Database XE, you use an intuitive, browser-based interface, to: Administer the databaseCreate tables, views, and other database objectsImport, export, and view table dataRun queries and SQL scriptsGenerate reports
You will find following screen
Click ‘Next’ to proceed
Select the ‘I accept’ check box and click ‘Next’
You can browse any other
location for installation
Click ‘Next’ to proceed
We can enter password for system
user here . We assuming ‘cognos’
Click ‘Next’ to proceed
These are the installation settings
note down it and click on ‘install’ button.
It will take two to five minute………….
This is the final screen you have after installation
Enter Username =system ;and password=cognos; to login as
admin.
Now we will create content store with oracle 10g express edition and cognos 8.1 BI
Locate ojdbc14.jar in oraclexe\app\oracle\product\10.2.0\server\ jdbc\lib and copy it to cognos\c8\webapps\p2pd\WEB-INF\lib
If classes12.jar exists in this folder, delete it or rename it.
Go to Start Program files cognos 8 cognos configuration
Expand the Data Access node under Local Configuration tree. There should be a node by name Content Manager within Data Access.
You have one default content store created there for the sql databaseRight click and delete it.
Now right click on Content store and select New resource Database
Give Name=‘cognos8_contentstore’
And Type=‘oracle Database’Then Click ‘ok’ button
Give User id=‘cognos’ and password=‘cognos’
Previously We have created user in oracle 10 g.
Click ‘ok’ button
Put service name= ‘XE’ which is Express
Edition oracle
Go to File Save as utf-8 click on it
Make sure that all the components are green ticked as
shown
Now click on the ‘start’ button to start the services of cognos
Make sure that all the tasks goes on with out any error Cognos configuration completed
Right click on ‘My Computer’ and go toMy Computer-->Properties-->Advance-->Environment Variables--> System Variable-->New•Create two Environment Variables with following properties•Make necessary changes to the path to match with installation location of Cognos 8 Name, Path
JAVA_HOME= C:\Program Files\cognos\c8\bin\jre\1.4.2
CATALINA_HOME= C:\Program Files\cognos\c8\tomcat4.1.27
Restart the system for Environment Variables to take effect
Right click on ‘My Computer’ and go to ‘Manage’
Towards the left side of Computer Management window, expand the Computer Management node to obtain Services and Applications node within it
Go to Internet Information Services under it .There would be a Web sites folder in it
Expand it to see the Default Web site.
Create the directories by right clicking on default
website andsay New->Virtual Directory
Give the alias name as cognos8 and click ‘Next’
Give path as ‘C:\Program Files\cognos\c8\
webcontent’Make changes to the path according to
the installation location
Assign Read, Run scripts, Write and
Browse permissions
Similarly create a new Virtual directory under ‘cognos8’ directory by right clicking on it and selecting new virtual directory and give the name as ‘cgi-bin’
For cgi-bin, give the path as C:\Program Files\cognos\c8\cgi-bin•Make necessary changes to the path according to installation loc.
Assign Read, Run scripts, Write and
Browse permissions
Go to properties of ‘Default Web Site’ and make changes as follows in the Home directory tab…
Check the following
•Script source access•Read•Directory browsing•Log visits•Index this resourceChange the following•Execute permissions as Scripts and Executables
Make the same changes to ‘Web Sites’ Directory
Type the URL http://<machine name>/cognos8Examplehttp://Bisp/cognos8If all the installation and configuration goes on without any errors, you can see the cognos home page
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