Installation prerequisites

 The BMC Reporting Foundation database is the database that stores information about the BusinessObjects Enterprise system and its users.

• During installation the default database will be installed. Sybase SQL Anywhere is the default database for Windows and Unix platform. BMC recommends to use default database.
• To use a licensed database server other than the default database, refer Preparation section from Business Intelligence Platform Installation Guide for Windows or Unix of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform 4.1 SP3. This document can be downloaded from SAP BusinessObjects Indirect Client Knowledge Center.

Before you install BMC Reporting Foundation, verify that the target computers meet the installation requirements listed in System-requirements-and-product-compatibility.

Prerequisites for installing BMC Reporting Foundation on Solaris

Before you install BMC Reporting Foundation 4.1 on a Solaris computer, review the following prerequisites:

• User account: Create a user account and group. This is required for the software's background processes to run. You can use this account to install BMC Reporting Foundation. You need not provide root privileges to this account. A user must have read, write, and execute scripts rights to the installation directory. The installer creates start-up run control scripts in /etc/rc directory. These scripts start or stop the BMC Reporting Foundation servers when the host computer is started or stopped. To run these scripts, a user needs root privileges.
• Commands: The following utilities must be installed on your computer and available on the path:
  
  • /bin/sh
  • expr
  • chown
  • tar
  • stty
  • pwd
  • hostname
  • grep
  • id
  • ulimit
  • read
  • sed
  • tail
  • dirname
    
  • which
  • touch
  • awk
  • uname
  • gzip
  • ping
    
    If any one of these utilities is not installed on your system, install a version from your operating system vendor only.

• Locale: Before you install BMC Reporting Foundation on a Soalris computer , set the installing account's environment to use a supported UTF-8 locale and ensure that your console software supports UTF-8 character sets. To ensure that your operating system uses the correct locale, set the LC_ALL and LANG environment variables to your preferred locale in your login environment.

  Example

  The following bash shell commands set the locale to the United States English UTF-8 locale:

  LANG=en_US.UTF-8

  export LANG

  LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

  export LC_ALL

• ulimit: Before you install BMC Reporting Foundation on Soalris computer, ensure that you configure the ulimit setting of the host operating system or user account as unlimited. Set the ulimit configuration by running the ulimit command, or modifying the /etc/security/limits.conf system configuration file. For more information about the ulimit setting, see the documentation of your operating system.
• Soft partitions: BMC Reporting Foundation cannot be installed on a Solaris computer with partitions.

Additional prerequisites for installing BMC Reporting Foundation on Solaris 11

• Scheduling control privilege: The user account installing the BMC Reporting Foundation must have the proc_priocntl scheduling control privilege. To grant this privilege, log in to your Solaris 11 computer as the root user and run the following command:
   usermod -K defaultpriv+=basic,proc_priocntl <userID>
• Packages: Before you install BMC Reporting Foundation on a Solaris 11 computer, you must install prerequisite packages. For the list of the packages, see System-requirements-and-product-compatibility.

Installable images and the Distribution Server

The installation program does not create a valid installable image for BMC Reporting Foundation components. You cannot install BMC Reporting Foundation components with the Distribution Server.

Compatibility with other products

If BMC Reporting Foundation is installed on a computer where the PATROL Central web server is already installed, the web browser on that computer cannot connect to that web console. Browsers on other computers are not affected and can connect to that web console. To avoid the problem, install the PATROL Central Web Server after BMC Reporting Foundation.