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UNIX

BusinessObjects Enterprise requires a database server and web application server software to be installed and configured if you want to use an existing database or web application server. You can also choose to install a database server (MySQL) and a Web application server (Apache Tomcat 5.5) during your installation of BusinessObjects Enterprise.

You must ensure 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 may 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 in order 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 required for a Unicode configuration.
• If you are installing BusinessObjects Enterprise in a firewall environment, you will 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. This communication is enabled by the BusinessObjects Enterprise Software Development Kit (SDK), which 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) supported by BusinessObjects Enterprise, you must install it.

  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.