Installation tasks

The installation of Rational® Common Reporting can be spread over more than one system. This topic provides a high-level view of the manual and automated installation steps to install Rational Common Reporting. For the task details, see the relevant installation topic.
Table 1. Recommended task flow for installing Rational Common Reporting
Task number Task name Task information
1 Plan the deployment
  1. Identify a system for the data warehouse.
  2. Identify a system for the report server.
  3. Make sure that the identified systems conform to the recommended system and software requirements.
2 Configure the deployment environment
  1. Get administrator privilege.
  2. Take backups.
  3. Disable virus protection.
3 Install and configure Rational Common Reporting on the data warehouse system
  1. Install a database server and client.
  2. Use the installer to install the Rational Common Reporting data warehouse components.
4 Install and configure Rational Common Reporting on the report server
  1. Install the database client.
  2. Use the installer to install the Rational Common Reporting Server components.
  3. Import the Rational Common Reporting report models.
  4. Configure the data sources for the data warehouse and the product data.
  5. Configure the Rational Common Reporting database catalog.
  6. Configure and run the ETL jobs.

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