Creating IBM Business Monitor clusters
In a network deployment (ND) environment, IBM® Business Monitor components must be deployed to clusters.
Before you begin
- You have installed IBM Business Monitor.
- You have created the IBM Business Monitor deployment manager profile or augmented an existing deployment manager profile with IBM Business Monitor.
- You have created the MONITOR database.
- You have run the database scripts to create the MONITOR database tables.
- You have started the deployment manager.
- You have created and federated at least one IBM Business Monitor custom profile or augmented an existing custom profile with IBM Business Monitor.
- You have started the custom profile or profiles.
About this task
Use an existing custom profile to create the first cluster member. You can add as many additional cluster members as you want in each cluster that you create (see "Adding cluster members"). To create the IBM Business Monitor cluster, complete the following steps from the administrative console:
Procedure
What to do next
After initially creating a cluster, you can add additional cluster members at any time.
To start a cluster the first time after the IBM Cognos® Business Intelligence service is installed, start each server individually. Do not use the ripplestart option, because this option does not give IBM Cognos BI enough time to initialize.
The administrative console might report issues when you first start the IBM Cognos Business Intelligence server. The initialization of each server instance in the IBM Cognos Business Intelligence content store database and disk area during the first startup takes much longer than a normal IBM Cognos Business Intelligence startup.