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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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