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UNIX

BusinessObjects Enterprise requires that you install and configure a database server and web application server software if you want to use an existing database or web application server. You can also install a database server and a Web application server during your installation of BusinessObjects Enterprise.

Verify that all BusinessObjects Enterprise computers can communicate properly with one another:

• Each BusinessObjects Enterprise computer must be able to communicate over TCP/IP with the computer that runs your CMS.
• If the host computer has more than one network interface card (NIC), the CMS can automatically bind to a primary NIC. If the primary NIC is not routable, you may have to reconfigure your servers after installation. Alternatively, you could make the primary NIC routable before installing BusinessObjects Enterprise. For more information about how to reconfigure to bind to routable NICs, see the Managing and Configuring Servers chapter in the BusinessObjects Enterprise Administrator’s Guide.
• UNIX servers that run BusinessObjects Enterprise must have a fixed host name. You must have root privileges to set or modify a fixed host name on your system. You must have root privileges to install CA Utilities to set up the CASHCOMP environment. However, you do not require root privileges to perform a user installation of BusinessObjects Enterprise. If you are unfamiliar with these procedures, see your UNIX system documentation.

  Note: Ensure that the host name you use does not include any of the following characters: an underscore, a period, or a slash.

• Ensure that your database client and server are set up to use Unicode character encoding (such as UTF-8). See your database documentation to determine the settings that are required for a Unicode configuration.
• If you are installing BusinessObjects Enterprise in a firewall environment, you need additional configuration details. See Firewalls.
• If you connect BusinessObjects Enterprise to a web application server, the web application server must be able to communicate with all BusinessObjects Enterprise computers. The BusinessObjects Enterprise Software Development Kit (SDK) enables this communication. The SDK is installed as part of the Web Tier components. If you plan to use a Java application server and your existing application server does not include a version of the Java Development Kit (JDK) that BusinessObjects Enterprise supports, install the supported version.

  Note: See the various Supported Platforms documents on the CA Business Intelligence DVD for a detailed list of supported environments and hardware requirements. These documents include specific version and patch-level requirements for databases, web application servers, web browsers, and operating systems. However, remember that your CA Technologies product's supported platforms take precedence over BusinessObjects Enterprise supported platforms.