- Create a UNIX group to be used as a CA Business Intelligence User:
# groupadd -g 400 bobje
- Create a Directory at /home/bobje, a UNIX user such as bobje, for use by the CA Business Intelligence installer for administrators, and set this user as owner of bobje directory:
# useradd -d /home/bobje -g bobje bobje
- Set the password for the user created in step 2:
# passwd bobje
- Edit /etc/hosts file, and ensure you have the below line:
127.0.0.1 localhost
- Download and copy the CABI3.3 installer to /home/bobje or the home folder you created in step 2.
- Extract the installer GZ file as follows:
# gunzip <cabi-version_number-linux.tar.gz>
- Extract the TAR file as follows:
tar -xvf <cabi-version_number-linux.tar>
- Give permissions on the CABI install folder and Installer media:
# chmod 777 /home/bobje/
- Copy OracleLinuxClient.zip to /tmp.
- Extract the zip file and all other zip files in it.
- Rename the folder instantclient_11_2 to oracle and move the folder oracle to /opt/.
- Go to /opt/oracle and create softlinks:
ln -s libclntsh.so.11.1 libclntsh.so
ln -s libocci.so.11.1 libocci.so
- Create a file tnsnames.ora with the content following this step.
Note: Replace parameters according to your setup:
<your Oracle SID> =
(DESCRIPTION =
(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = <Oracle Hostname>)(PORT = 1521))
(CONNECT_DATA =
(SERVER = DEDICATED)
(SERVICE_NAME = <your Oracle Service/SID name>)))
- Edit .bash_profile of both root, in /root/.bash_profile, and bobje, in /home/bobje/.bash_profile and add the following.
Note: If /home/bobje/.bash_profile does not exist for bobje user, create one and change the owner to bobje using the command chown –R bobje:bobje /home/bobje/.bash_profile.
export ORACLE_HOME=/opt/oracle
export PATH=$PATH:$ORACLE_HOME
export TNS_ADMIN=/opt/oracle
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/opt/oracle
- Go to the user home folder located at /home/bobje.
- Start the installation program with the command below and follow the prompts:
./cabi_installer.sh
- Enter Non-Root Credentials:
User Name: bobje
Group Name: bobje
- Accept the default path for the CA Shared Components Directory.
- Respond No to the question about installing sample templates.
- Respond Yes to the question about saving the response file.
- Accept the default name for the response file.
- Press Enter to invoke the Business Objects Enterprise installer.
- Enter the default installation directory:
/opt/CA/SharedComponents/CommonReporting3/
- Select the Installation Type:
User – Regular SAP Business Objects Enterprise installation
- Select: 2 – Custom or Expand.
- Unselect the following components and press [Enter]:
- Client Components
- Server Components
- Central Management Server
- Select 1 – Yes – This is the first CMS in this deployment.
- Select the choice to use an existing database.
- Enter the following for a new CMS database:
- For database type, select Oracle
- For the CMS Database, enter CMS user details.
- Enter the following information for new AUDIT database.
- For database type, select Oracle
- Provide AUDIT user details for the AUDIT Database
- Respond Yes to initialize the database.
- Assign any name for the service intelligence agent.
- Select 1 - Install Tomcat, deploy web applications.
Note: In case of database error during install, check the latest logs for detais located here: /opt/CA/SharedComponents/CommonReporting3/setup/logs/dbcheck
All installation logs are located here: /opt/CA/SharedComponents/CommonReporting3/setup/logs/
- Confirm installation success by accessing the CMS console at http://<hostname>:8080/CmcApp.
