Cognos Express 9.5 Installation and Configuration

Scenario: The idea is to install Cognos and configure SSO using OAM 11gR2. In this post i will cover Cognos 9.5  installation setup

Environment:
Windows 7 64 bit
Cognos 9.5 64-bit (Express Edition)
OAM 11gR2
AD installed on Windows server 2008 R2

Steps:

• Register on IBM site and down Cognos 9.5 64-bit (Express Edition) using the below URL. IBM by default uses its own download manager to perform the software download.
• Navigate to the downloadable and Launch setup.exe

• Select the desired Folder PATH and proceed

• Leave the Default ports as it is and define the administrator username and password what ever you like

• "icognosexpress" is a system account that will be created by the installer. Not sure where it will be used

•     Admin URL:   http://localhost:19300/cognos_express/manager/main.html?lang=en

•     Notice that Manager shown as Installing.

• On the Right Pane, you can observe the status as notifications.

• Once the installation is done, You will get a login page as below. Login using the Admin account that was created during installation

• In order to install reporting functionality, Navigate to "Reporter" pane and click on Install

•     After installation, you will get a screen like below

• Observe the below 5 services were craeted as part of the Cognos installation. you can start/stop services to control

Administration Console:

On the top right corner, you can navigate to Admin Page and will get a page like below

• If you want to configure Mail server and AD for authentication, Navigate to Manager and click on configure.
• Enter appropriate host and port details

• You can observe the changes made in the logs as below

Thanks,
Veeru Yads