Installation tasks

The installation of IBM® Rational® Insight can be spread over more than one system. This topic provides a high-level view of the manual and automated installation steps to install IBM Rational Insight Data Services and Rational Insight. For the task details, see the relevant installation topic.
Table 1. Task flow for installing Rational Insight
Task name Task information
Plan the deployment
  1. Identify the servers for the data service adapters.
  2. Identify a system for the data warehouse.
  3. Identify a system for the report server.
  4. Identify a system for developing the standardized reports.
  5. Make sure that the identified systems conform to the required system and software requirements.
Configure the deployment environment
  1. Get administrator privilege.
  2. Take backups.
  3. Deactivate virus protection.
Install Rational Insight Data Services on the data service server
  1. Use the installer to set up the data service server, and to install the Rational Insight Data Services adapters.
  2. Configure the system services and product data sources.
Install and configure Rational Insight on the data warehouse system
  1. Install a database server and client.
  2. Use the installer to install the Rational Insight data warehouse components.
  3. If you want to install the content store, use the installer to install the content store.
Install and configure Rational Insight on the report server
  1. Install the database client. If you want to install the content store, install the database server.
  2. Use the installer to install the Insight Server components.
Install and configure Rational Insight on the developer system
  1. Install the database client.
  2. Use the installer to install the Rational Insight report development tools.
  3. Import the Rational Insight report models.
  4. Configure the data sources for the data warehouse and the product data.
  5. Configure the Rational Insight database catalog.
  6. Configure and run the ETL jobs.

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