CA Business Intelligence Installation Considerations

CA Business Intelligence Installation Considerations

You must install the CA Business Intelligence Enterprise software that provides the CA Configuration Automation reporting before installing CA Configuration Automation. Consider the following when installing CA Business Intelligence:

• To install CA Business Intelligence, use the CA Configuration Automation installation program. The first screen of the wizard has links to install all required components. For basic instructions, see the CA Business Intelligence documentation located at dvd2\BOXI\Docs on the CA Configuration Automation media.
• CA Business Intelligence is typically installed with the following configuration:
  • MySQL as the CA Business Intelligence Central Management Server Database
  • Apache Tomcat as the application server

  Advanced users may want to perform a custom installation that lets you configure the CA Business Intelligence Enterprise reporting software to use a pre-existing database, including a Microsoft SQL database, or use a pre-existing application server, including IIS. If you want to use these custom configurations, see the CA Business Intelligence Installation Guide.

• During installation, on the Server Intelligence Agent screen, when prompted to provide a unique name to identify the SIA node in the Node Name field, do not use spaces, hyphens, or non-alphanumeric characters. By default, the node name is same as the system host name, but if the host name contains spaces, hyphens, or non-alphanumeric characters, enter a different name for the agent.
• Problems may occur when installing CA Business Intelligence from a mapped drive. To avoid potential issues, install CA Business Intelligence from a local drive.
• If you install CA Business Intelligence to a drive that is completely empty, you may receive a Validating Disk Space Requirements message. Place any file on to the drive to fix the error.
• An intermittent fatal error window may open during installation. Click OK on the window, and the installation should still complete successfully.