Help on Server Migration...

[gops210]

Hi ,

     We are involved in Cognos Server Migration from our old server to new server,We want to have suggestions on what are all the procedures ,steps and Best practices to be followed and please send us if you have any supporting documents for server migration

Thanks,
Gopinath R

[lloydke]

We are on Cognos 8.1.2 not ReportNet but these are the steps we follow and you can see what you can use:
1. Shutdown Cognos on the server.
2. Backup the Content Store (Ask DBA to do a cold backup)
3. In cogConfig export config (File -> export)
4. Install Cognos on the new server.
5. Copy exported config from old box to new server in /opt/cognos/c8/configuration as cogstartup.xml
6. Edit cogstartup.xml, find the old machine name/ip address and replace with new machine name/ip address
7. Start up cognos on the new server.
8. Disassociate the old server in the content store.

Hope this is helpful,
Kevin