Installation overview
The overview covers information about the installation
package, installation tasks, and installation scenarios.
Planning the installation IBM® Rational® Insight can
be deployed on a single system but in a typical production environment,
you might choose to install the various components of Rational Insight on separate
systems. To correctly install and run Rational Insight ensure that
you plan for the tasks for your deployment scenario.
Installing Rational Insight on Windows systems Rational Insight has
two installation packages:Rational Insight
Data Services and Rational Insight. The server
components of Rational Insight can
be installed on systems with Windows® Server
2003 and Windows Server
2008. The client components of Rational Insight can be installed
on systems with Windows XP
Professional, Windows Vista, Windows 2003, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008.
Installing Rational Insight on Linux systems IBM Rational Insight can
be installed in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux® 5
environment. Rational Insight has
two installation packages: Rational Insight
Data Services and Rational Insight. The Rational Insight components
of data warehouse, report server, and extract, transform, and load
(ETL) server can be deployed in a Linux environment
but you need a Windows environment
for the report development tools Data Manager and Framework Manager.
For information about components that can be used only on Windows systems, see the Overview
section.
Example package: The Great Outdoors Company
The IBM Rational Insight installation
package includes sample databases that contain sales, marketing, and
financial information for a fictitious entity called Great Outdoors
Company. Installing this sample package is not essential for running
and using Rational Insight but
if you install the sample package, you can use when exploring and
understanding the Framework Manager and Data Manager features.