User manual BUSINESS OBJECTS BI SERVER FOR WINDOWS INSTALLATION GUIDE

[. . . ] Business Objects BI Server Installation Guide - Windows Business Objects BI Server Windows Patents Business Objects owns the following U. S. patents, which may cover products that are offered and sold by Business Objects: 5, 555, 403, 6, 247, 008 B1, 6, 578, 027 B2, 6, 490, 593 and 6, 289, 352. Business Objects, the Business Objects logo, Crystal Reports, and Crystal Enterprise are trademarks or registered trademarks of Business Objects SA or its affiliated companies in the United States and other countries. All other names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. [. . . ] When you reach the Start Installation dialog box, click Next. The installation of files begins immediately. During the installation process, you may be prompted to restart the local machine. When the installation program has finished copying files, you are given the opportunity to register your product. When you reach the final setup dialog box, clear Launch BusinessObjects Administration Console unless you want to publish your own reports to Business Objects BI Server immediately. Tip: Sample reports are installed by default, so you can verify your installation and learn your way around Business Objects BI Server. Click Finish. Business Objects BI Server Installation Guide 19 2 Installing Business Objects BI Server on Windows Installation Options After completing the full stand-alone installation, go to section "Testing your installation" on page 24. Silent installation A silent installation is one that you run from the command line to install Business Objects BI Server on any machine in your system. When you run a silent installation, you can: · · Specify all the parameters to be used for the install at the same time on the command line, rather than several at a time on each of the different install screens. Specify other options that control the prompt level you want for the install. The silent install is run from the command line. The command includes a series of parameters that provide information for installation settings and directory paths. You can also specify options that control the level of prompts during an install. The silent installation is particularly useful when you need to perform multiple installations or you do not want to interrupt people who are working on machines in your system. You can also use the silent installation command in your own scripts. For example, if your organization uses scripts to install software on machines, you can add the silent Business Objects BI Server installation command to your scripts. The silent installation command consists of the command setup. exe, followed by the install destination, and a number of parameters that provide information about the installation. The following example installs Business Objects BI Server with the CMS and Tomcat and MySQL onto the machine with no user interface and no prompt and the end of the installation. : setup. exe CLIENTLANGUAGE=EN INSTALLLEVEL=6 INSTALLDIR="c:\Program Files\My Preferred_Location" REBOOT=ReallySuppress PIDKEY=A1234-ABCD123-12345A6 DATABASEPWD_MYSQL =rpassword DATABASEUID=sa DATABASEPWD=mypassword /qn The example uses the most common parameters. You can choose any number of valid parameters, but it is good practice to keep the silent installation as simple as possible. 20 Business Objects BI Server Installation Guide Installing Business Objects BI Server on Windows Installation Options 2 The following table lists the most common parameters used in a silent installation. To use a parameter, place it on the command line after the setup. exe command and the path for the installation files. Installation parameter CLIENTLANGUAGE Use Use this to specify the language version code for the install. · For English, enter EN · · · · · · · · · · · For French, enter FR For German, enter DE For Spanish, enter ES For Japanese enter JP For Simplified Chinese, enter CHS For Traditional Chinese, enter CHT For Korean, enter KO For Dutch, enter NL For Swedish, enter SV For Italian, enter IT For Portuguese, enter PT Note: If you don't enter this parameter, the regular language selection screen will appear at the beginning of your install, even if you specified the parameters for a no prompt installation. INSTALLLEVEL Determines which Business Objects BI Server components are installed. · 6 specifies all components will be installed. · 5 specifies all components will be installed except MySQL. · 4 specifies all components will be installed except MySQL, CMS and Tomcat. [. . . ] For more information, see Importing Objects to BusinessObjects Enterprise in the BusinessObjects Enterprise Administrator's Guide. · Publishing Wizard The Publishing Wizard is a locally installed tool that allows administrators and users to add Crystal reports to Business Objects BI Server. For more information, see Publishing Objects to BusinessObjects Enterprise in the BusinessObjects Enterprise Administrator's Guide. · Repository Migration Wizard The Repository Migration Wizard is a tool that allows you to copy the data from an existing repository database into another data source. For more information, see Managing BusinessObjects Enterprise Repository in the BusinessObjects Enterprise Administrator's Guide. · Data Source Migration Wizard The Data Source Migration Wizard is a tool that allows you to migrate Crystal reports that are based on Crystal queries, dictionaries, and Business Views to Business Objects BI Server. 30 Business Objects BI Server Installation Guide Business Objects BI Server Product Information Business Objects BI Server components 3 Consult the BusinessObjects Enterprise Administrator's Guide and the BusinessObjects Enterprise User's Guide for more information about using Business Objects BI Server. While you are referring to the BusinessObjects Enterprise guides, you may encounter some information that does not apply to Business Objects BI Server. [. . . ]