User manual BUSINESS OBJECTS BI SERVER FOR WINDOWS INSTALLATION GUIDE

[. . . ] Business Objects BI Server Installation Guide - Windows Business Objects BI Server Windows Patents Business Objects owns the following U. S. patents, which may cover products that are offered and sold by Business Objects: 5, 555, 403, 6, 247, 008 B1, 6, 578, 027 B2, 6, 490, 593 and 6, 289, 352. Business Objects, the Business Objects logo, Crystal Reports, and Crystal Enterprise are trademarks or registered trademarks of Business Objects SA or its affiliated companies in the United States and other countries. All other names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. [. . . ] Click the Install Tomcat application server button. · If you want to use the IIS WCA only: a. Select IIS ASP. NET, and then click Next. · If you want to use both the Java and IIS WCA: a. Make sure both Java application server and IIS ASP. NET are selected. 18 Business Objects BI Server Installation Guide Installing Business Objects BI Server on Windows Installation Options 2 b. Accept the default or select the web site on which to deploy the WAR file. If you have published other web sites than the default web site with IIS, you can select it here. Select either Use preinstalled Java application server or Install Tomcat application server, and then click Next. 13. Configure Tomcat if you chose to install it. ; otherwise, skip this step. Accept the defaults or change the default location for the Tomcat installation and/or the following ports, and then click Next. · · · The Connection port The Shutdown port The Redirect port 14. During the installation process, you may be prompted to restart the local machine. When the installation program has finished copying files, you are given the opportunity to register your product. When you reach the final setup dialog box, clear Launch BusinessObjects Administration Console unless you want to publish your own reports to Business Objects BI Server immediately. Tip: Sample reports are installed by default, so you can verify your installation and learn your way around Business Objects BI Server. Click Finish. Business Objects BI Server Installation Guide 19 2 Installing Business Objects BI Server on Windows Installation Options After completing the full stand-alone installation, go to section "Testing your installation" on page 24. Silent installation A silent installation is one that you run from the command line to install Business Objects BI Server on any machine in your system. When you run a silent installation, you can: · · Specify all the parameters to be used for the install at the same time on the command line, rather than several at a time on each of the different install screens. Specify other options that control the prompt level you want for the install. The silent install is run from the command line. The command includes a series of parameters that provide information for installation settings and directory paths. You can also specify options that control the level of prompts during an install. The silent installation is particularly useful when you need to perform multiple installations or you do not want to interrupt people who are working on machines in your system. For example, if your organization uses scripts to install software on machines, you can add the silent Business Objects BI Server installation command to your scripts. The silent installation command consists of the command setup. exe, followed by the install destination, and a number of parameters that provide information about the installation. The following example installs Business Objects BI Server with the CMS and Tomcat and MySQL onto the machine with no user interface and no prompt and the end of the installation. : setup. exe CLIENTLANGUAGE=EN INSTALLLEVEL=6 INSTALLDIR="c:\Program Files\My Preferred_Location" REBOOT=ReallySuppress PIDKEY=A1234-ABCD123-12345A6 DATABASEPWD_MYSQL =rpassword DATABASEUID=sa DATABASEPWD=mypassword /qn The example uses the most common parameters. You can choose any number of valid parameters, but it is good practice to keep the silent installation as simple as possible. 20 Business Objects BI Server Installation Guide Installing Business Objects BI Server on Windows Installation Options 2 The following table lists the most common parameters used in a silent installation. To use a parameter, place it on the command line after the setup. exe command and the path for the installation files. Installation parameter CLIENTLANGUAGE Use Use this to specify the language version code for the install. [. . . ] For details about security, see BusinessObjects Enterprise Security Concepts in the BusinessObjects Enterprise Administrator's Guide. · Viewers Report Viewers display Web Intelligence documents and Crystal reports pages in users' web browsers. For more information, see Report Viewers in the BusinessObjects Enterprise Administrator's Guide. · Import Wizard The Import Wizard is a locally installed tool that allows administrators to import users, groups, folders, and reports from an existing BusinessObjects Enterprise, Crystal Enterprise, or Crystal Info implementation to Business Objects BI Server. For more information, see Importing Objects to BusinessObjects Enterprise in the BusinessObjects Enterprise Administrator's Guide. · Publishing Wizard The Publishing Wizard is a locally installed tool that allows administrators and users to add Crystal reports to Business Objects BI Server. For more information, see Publishing Objects to BusinessObjects Enterprise in the BusinessObjects Enterprise Administrator's Guide. · Repository Migration Wizard The Repository Migration Wizard is a tool that allows you to copy the data from an existing repository database into another data source. [. . . ]