HCL Cognos BI installation options

You can install HCL® Cognos® BI applications in a distributed environment or you can install all the applications on one computer.

Before you install HCL Cognos BI, use the IBM Cognos BI Architecture and Deployment Guide to learn about the various components, the installation options, and the configuration approaches recommended by HCL Cognos.

The HCL Cognos documentation uses two general categories to describe installations: installing in a distributed environment versus installing all the components on one computer. For best results, do not install all components on one computer unless it is for a proof of concept or is a demonstration environment.

Installing the subset of HCL Cognos BI applications that HCL reporting uses requires that you use two HCL Cognos installers. One provides the HCL Cognos BI server, the Content Manager, Cognos Configuration, and the web-based user interfaces. You use a separate installer to install Framework Manager, the metadata modeling tool because it must be installed on a Windows™ computer.

See the Cognos documentation for complete installation details.