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Windchill Business Reporting
If you are installing Windchill Business Reporting (WBR) along with your Windchill solution, you must decide whether the WBR components, the host and the gateway server, will be installed on the same machine as your Windchill solution, or installed in a distributed configuration on multiple machines.
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If you choose one of the distributed scenarios, the PTC Solution Installer (PSI) must be run on each machine in the proper sequence to avoid manual post-installation configuration steps.
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If you are updating an existing installation to include Windchill Business Reporting, you must first uninstall any previous installtions of Cognos, and reboot your machine, for the installation to run successfully.
The following Windchill Business Reporting installation scenarios are supported:
Local Installation—The host, gateway server, and your Windchill solution are all installed on one machine.
Distributed Installations—
Two machines—The host is installed on one machine, and the gateway server and your Windchill solution are installed on a second machine.
Three machines—The host is installed on one machine, the gateway server is installed on a second machine, and your Windchill solution is installed on a third machine. The PSI is run first to install the host, then to install the gateway server, and lastly to install your Windchill solution.
Windchill Business Reporting is also supported in a cluster environment. For information on installing Windchill Business Reporting in a cluster environment, see the Windchill Advanced Deployment Guide.