Cognos ReportNetTM Installation and Configuration Guide

Chapter 3: Installing ReportNet on Windows
Setting Default Description
SDK URI
http://localhost:9300/p2pd
/servlet/dispatch
The URI to the dispatcher
Log server port 9362 The port used by the local log
server
The following table lists the default settings used by ReportNet for Tomcat. The non-SSL and
SSL connectors are automatically updated in the server.xml file when you use Cognos
Configuration to change the dispatcher port (p. 40) or to enable the SSL protocol (p. 47). You
can directly update the shutdown port using Cognos Configuration.
.
Setting Port Description
Non-SSL Coyote HTTP/1.1
Connector
SSL Coyote HTTP/1.1
connector
9300 The port Tomcat uses to pass
requests from the Web server
to ReportNet
9334 The port Tomcat uses to listen
for secure connections
Shutdown port 9399 The port Tomcat uses to listen
for a shutdown command
Create the Database for the Content Store
You must create the database that is used for the content store using either Oracle, Microsoft
SQL Server, or DB2 UDB. ReportNet uses this database to store, organize, and retrieve
information.
The database you create must use UTF-8 encoding.
It is important to note that for each installation, ReportNet uses a single sort order that specifies
the rules used by the database to interpret, collect, compare, and present character data. For
example, a sort order defines whether the letter 'a' is less than, equal to, or greater than the
letter 'b', whether the collation is case-sensitive; and whether the collation is accent-sensitive.
Your database administrator must back up the ReportNet content store regularly because it
contains all the ReportNet data. To ensure the security and integrity of the content store, it is
also important to protect the database from unauthorized or inappropriate access.
Steps for Microsoft SQL Server
1. If you performed a Typical installation of Microsoft SQL Server, after you install you must
change the authentication mode to SQL Server and Windows.
For more information, see the knowledge base article 269587 on the Microsoft Web site.
2. Create the database.
If you modified the default settings when you installed Microsoft SQL Server, you must
specify a database collation sequence for the content store that is case-insensitive.
3. Determine which user account ReportNet will use to access the content store.
4. Grant create and drop table privileges for the content store to the user account.
Ensure that the user account is a member of the db_ddladmin role.
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