How to determine an existing install's "Install Location"

[rockytopmark]

Gang -

Sorry, this sounds silly, but I am struggling with how to determine the appropriate install location to use when building the preserve.txt file in preparation for an upgrade.

The install is in this path... I just want confirmation what the true <install_location> is for the preserve.txt entries I need to make:

server\d:\Progam Files\ibm\cognos\analytics\webcontent\...

Thanks in advance... M

[bus_pass_man]

I don't know what you mean by "true install location" and I'm not entirely sure what the problem definition is so I'm more or less shotgunning some stuff your way in hopes it helps.

In your directory path, you'll find directories which are siblings of webcontent such as bin, bin64, configuration, deployment, logs, v5dataserver, msgsdk, wlp etc.

You've apparently found the preserve file, which is in the ..\configuration\preserve directory.   (the ..\ bit is shorthand for {where ever you've installed CA}, which in your case is server\d:\Progam Files\ibm\cognos\analytics\ )

In the help in the preserve file you will see examples of the syntax of how to specify where the files you want to explicitly include or exclude.
msgsdk/cm_ldkspec.xml   
You will find cm_ldkspec.xml in the msgsdk directory.

[rockytopmark]

Yep.... thanks for confirming.

M