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Report Server

• Be sure that the Report Server host system meets the minimum operating system requirements:
  • Windows
  • UNIX
• (Solaris) Install the required operating system patches to the Report Server host system.

  Note: For more information, see the Policy Server Release Notes.

• Be sure that the Report Server host meets the connectivity requirements.
• Be sure that the Report Server host name does not include any of the following characters:
  • An underscore (_)
  • A period (.)
  • A slash (/) (\)
• If you are reinstalling the Report Server, uninstall the current instance. The installation fails if you attempt to install over an existing instance.
• Windows installations:
  • Be sure that you have access to a user account that is a member of the local Administrators group. The user account that runs the installer must be a member of the local Administrators group.

    Important! Installing to a system where the default Windows security settings have been modified for the local Administrator group is not supported.

  • Be sure that the system to which you are installing is not a domain controller. Installing to a domain controller is not supported.
• UNIX installations:
  • Be sure that the Report Server host IP is configured properly in the /etc/hosts file to avoid an IP resolution problem.
  • Be sure that you have access to a root user account and a non–root user account. You require a root-user account to start the installation and a non–root user account to complete the installation. Be sure that the non–root user account:
    • is the owner of a valid home directory
    • has write permissions to the home directory
  • Be sure that the following commands and utilities are installed on the operating system and available on the PATH evironment variable for the root user account:
    • /bin/sh
    • uname
    • awk
    • tar
    • stty
    • pwd
    • expr
    • chown
    • id
    • ulimt
    • read
    • hostname
    • grep
    • dirname
    • which
    • touch
    • sed
    • tail
    • gzip
  • Be sure that the PATH environment variable of the root–user account does not inlcude GNU or third–party replacements for core system commond–line tools or an individually downloaded and compiled version of the tool.
  • Set at least one of the following variables to a valid utf8/UTF-8 locale:
    • LC_ALL

      Example: export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

    • LANG

      Example: export LANG=en_US.UTF-8

    • LC_CTYPE

      Example: export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8