Started a new Install this week, Cognos 8.4.1 BI, Planning and Metrics upgrade on a Windows 2003 R2 64-bit machine. Thought I would document and share a few of my notes here.
First I did a little research -
http://sebastianmai.blogspot.com/2009/08/ibm-cognos-84-bi-64-bit-vs-32-bit.htmlThen I downloaded and unzipped (with 7-zip) the 64-bit Cognos Installers -
I checked that IIS 6.0 64-bit was installed as well as Java being up to date -
Next I Installed the BI Server. My impulse with Cognos Installing is to go with the defaults initially just to get it up and running quickly, then change things later. One of the defaults here being including the Cognos Content Store database -
Funny thing was, that after installing it, I went to test it in Cognos Configuration (Note, the default password and user name are Cognos, Cognos) and I received this error message -
Content Manager failed to connect to the content store.
The connection string is 'jdbc:derby://localhost:1527/cm'.
So like most people these days, I did a query online for the error and pulled up this page which surprising had the answer for me -
Hi ArjunThe first time you install it, the cognos content database service is not set up yet. So just start the services using Cognos Configurator, no need to click test.Then it will show you that it registers "Cognos Content Database" Service and starts it.When this service is up and running, you can click test if you want, it will pass the test.
I had somehow missed the step where you select the 'IBM Cognos Content Database' in Cognos Configuration and click start prior to testing the connection.

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