Create a dvelepoment system

[nfldbunker]

hi

currently we have a production cognos system which only has several reports and 2 cubes. Prior to getting deep into development of the production system i would like to setup a development ssyetm along side of our production so that all testing and development could be comepleetd and tested.

Any detail information would be greatly appreciated

bunker   

[MFGF]

Same server or on a different server?

MF.

[nfldbunker]

hi

HI this cold be on the same server but i was hoping to created one on a vmware development server . is this possible?

please provide some instructions

thanks

bunker

[MFGF]

Yes it can be on the same server, but if you do this you will need to configure different port, shutdown port and logging port numbers in Cognos Configuration, and use a different content store database and different virtual directories.  See the IBM Cognos 8 Installation and Configuration Guide for details.

You can also install Cognos 8 within a VM environment - in this case it is exactly the same setup as on a real server.

Regards,

MF.

[blom0344]

1. Make sure you have big enough metal to run. Two instances means 2 java engines. We run 8.3 along 8.4 and we keep switching due to laggy performance..

2. With IIS the trick is to make sure to have seperate application pools. Otherwise you may notice that instances will not run properly along each other.

When using VMware the latter is academic, but the first is even more important

[RudiHendrix]

I'm running in Virtual PC. Specs:
-Cognos 8.4.1
-Oracle 11g
-Windows 7

What type of installation are you thinking of? (OS, DB, Cognos version etc...)

If it is something similar: I have detailed installation guidelines with screenshots based upon the installation mentioned above. I can send them to you if you like.

[nfldbunker]

Hi

Currently we are running cognos 8.3 on a SQL database, windows 2003 server in a productuion environment. We are brining in server virtualization into our network in the next couple of months and i am hoping to create some sort of development platform for cognos where were can do all our development and testing prior to brining it online in the production.

Any ideas and or  details please let me know

shawn

[Allen Krause]

hi nfldbunker,

you can do the same server however do avoid alot of confusion and configuration mistakes, id recommend a 2nd server and or 3rd server (dev / qa /prod, also depends how big your reporting dept. is)

My cognos instances are all virtualized through VMware.  Depending who creates the server instances, a new server should be able to be 'mirrored' exactly to how your production instance is.  Also to note it is generally better / best practice to have separate servers. 

I don't know how you have to current instance configured (single or muliti server) but mirroring the server out in VMware for single instances works very well.

My specs are

2003 Server 32bit
Cognos 8.3 FP 4
Oracle 10 g

1 Production
1 Uat
1 QA
1 Dev

Each have their own URL for the load balancer and own schemas in the database.

Hope this helps!

[nmcdermaid]

If you're running on a seperate VMWare or Virtual PC then its effectively a different host so there is no need to pick different port numbers.

To set up a dev system you simply recreate your entire prod system on a different host, ensuring that it has its own content store etc. Obviously the server names will be different (unless its on an isolated network)

Then you need to come up with migration strategies/processes to get objects from dev to prod (usually there is TEST somewhere in the middle)