Example: Installing Rational Insight on a single system

Windows This installation scenario describes the installation tasks for installing all the components of IBM® Rational® Insight on a single system that has a database preinstalled on it. The scenario described in this topic is for the following configuration: Windows® Server 2003 Standard Edition and DB2® Enterprise Server Edition 9.5.
Before you begin
Ensure that the following requirements have been met:
About this task

The installer will place all the components of Rational Insight on a single system.

  1. Start the launchpad.exe file.
  2. Read the release information and the installation document.
  3. To begin the installation, click Install IBM Rational Insight and click Launch Rational Insight Installer.
  4. Select IBM Rational Insight . If you do not have IBM Installation Manager 1.3 installed, select IBM Installation Manager. Click Next.
  5. Read the license agreements and if you accept, click I accept the terms in the license agreements, and click Next.
  6. If needed, specify the location of the shared resource directory for Installation Manager. The default directory is C:\Program Files\IBM\IMShared.
  7. If needed, specify the location for installing Installation Manager. The default directory is C:\Program Files\IBM\Installation Manager\eclipse.
  8. Select Create a new package group. If prompted for an installation directory, accept the default installation directory (C:\Program Files\IBM\Rational Insight). Click Next.
  9. Select both features of Data Warehouse, XML Data Configuration, all three features of Insight Server, and both features of Rational Insight Development Tools.
  10. Select the XML data configuration files for the data sources you will be using with Rational Insight.
  11. In the Select an application server list, select New installation of WebSphere Application Server 6.1.0.21, and click Next.
  12. In the Installation mode list, select Automatic: Create the databases for me.
  13. In the Database type list, select DB2 9.5. Enter the required database information in all the fields. Click Verify user.
    Note: You must be the owner of the directory where you want the tablespaces to be created. The database application location must be the directory up to but not including the bin directory of DB2; for example, C:\Program Files\IBM\SQLLIB
  14. Select Use a default directory to store the databases and make sure you have enough disk space and the access permission to store databases. If you do not want to install the databases to the default directory, click Browse to select another location. Click Next. If the Next button remains unavailable, verify the following items:
    • If the database is installed at a location that is not the default location, the database application location points to the correct location.
    • The database name does not exist in the current database instance. By default, the data warehouse name is RIDW and the sample data warehouse name is SAMPLEDW.
    • The database server is running.
  15. Select Install Cognos components and place Rational Insight files in the appropriate locations, and click Next.
  16. Click Install.
  17. When the installation is over, click Finish.
Results
You can now start using Rational Insight. To connect to the server, open a Web browser and point to http://host:9080/insight, where host is the server name or the IP address of your server where Rational Insight.

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