This topic gives a road map of the installation tasks for
a mid-sized deployment of Rational® Common Reporting with DB2® Enterprise
Server Edition 9.5 as the relational database management system. This
scenario is typical when installing for a mid-sized team. The installation
is spread over two systems: one for the data warehouse server, and
the other for the report server. The described scenario is for the
following configuration: Windows® Server 2003 Standard Edition for the report server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux® 5 GA with Update 4 for the
data warehouse server.
Before you begin
Make sure that the following requirements have been met:
- You have administrative rights to the systems.
- You know the user name and password of the DB2 administrator.
About this task
The described installation scenario is distributed over four
different systems, which are as follows:
- System 1 is the database server, which host the data warehouse
and the content store. DB2 Enterprise
Server Edition 9.5. You will install the following Rational Common Reporting components on this system:
- System 2 is the report server. It runs on IBM® WebSphere® Application Server, is hosted on Windows Server 2003 Standard
Edition, and is used for accessing the databases on the data warehouse
server through the DB2 client.
You will install the following Rational Common Reporting components on this system: