Install Metric Designer  

You can install Metric Designer, the metadata modeling tool for Metric Studio, on the same computer as Cognos 8 components, or on a different computer. All required files are copied to one computer. Default settings chosen by Cognos are used for the configuration. However, you may want to change these default settings if existing conditions make the default choices inappropriate, or if you installed Cognos 8 on a different computer.

Before you install Metric Designer, we recommend that you close all programs that are currently running to ensure that the installation program copies all the required files to your computer.

Also, ensure that you have administrator privileges for the Windows computer you are installing on. If you are not an administrator, ask your system administrator to add you to the Administrator group on your computer.

We recommend that you install and configure all Cognos 8 server components before you install Metric Designer.

If you are installing the modeling tool in the same directory as Cognos 8 and do not stop the Cognos 8 services, you are prompted to do so during the installation.

You should also install and configure the target application where you will load data or metadata.

Steps

1. If you are installing in a directory with other Cognos 8 components, stop the Cognos 8 service.

2. Insert the CD for Metric Designer.

   The Welcome page of the installation wizard should appear.

   If no Welcome page appears, in the win32 directory on the CD, double-click the issetup.exe file.

3. Select the language to use to run the installation wizard.

4. Follow the directions in the installation wizard to copy the required files to your computer.

5. In the Finish page of the installation wizard:

   • If you want to configure Cognos components immediately, click Start Cognos Configuration.

   • If you want to see late-breaking information about Cognos components, click View the Readme.

6. Click Finish.

   Use the Windows Start menu to start Cognos Configuration from the shortcut folder.

To ensure the security and integrity of Cognos 8, it is important to protect the installation directory from unauthorized or inappropriate access.

If you use Oracle or DB2 as the database server for the metric store in a distributed installation, you must now install the database client software on the same computer where you installed Metric Designer.

After you install Metric Designer on your Windows computer, some configuration tasks may be required to ensure that it works in your scorecarding environment .

Default Settings for Metric Designer 

The following table lists the default settings for the ports and URIs that are used by Metric Designer. After installation, you can use Cognos Configuration to change the settings. You can also change them by editing the cogstartup.xml file in the c8_location\configuration directory.