Installing Cognos® Business Intelligence
IBM® Cognos® Business Intelligence collects, manages, and displays statistical information for the Metrics application in HCL Connections. Installing Cognos® Business Intelligence involves installing IBM® WebSphere® Application Server Network Deployment, plus a database client, in addition to the Cognos® components.
Before you begin
This documentation assumes that you are deploying Cognos® Business Intelligence before you install HCL Connections. If you choose to deploy Cognos® later, you can ignore any Cognos-related validation errors during the Connections installation process and then return to this section later for instructions on deploying the Cognos® components. Even if you are not deploying Cognos® now, you can create the raw Metrics database and install the Metrics application so that Connections can immediately begin capturing event data for later use.
- To install both Cognos® Business Intelligence and Transformer on the Windows™ system
- To leave Cognos® Business Intelligence on a non-Windows system and install Transformer on Windows™. Refer to the technote for detailed information:
About this task
HCL Connections requires a customized version of Cognos® Business Intelligence, which is installed using the provided script. You cannot use previously deployed Cognos® Business Intelligence components with the Metrics application. For best performance, use a separate computer for the customized version of Cognos® Business Intelligence.
To install the Cognos® Business Intelligence and its supporting software, complete these tasks: