Distributed server deployment

Install the Oracle InForm software and the Reporting and Analysis module on separate servers.

In a distributed server deployment, the Oracle InForm Application Server, the Cognos Report Server, the Cognos Content Manager Server, the Cognos Gateway Server, the Oracle Directory Server, and the study and reporting databases are on separate server machines that conform to Oracle InForm hardware and software requirements.

For example, a distributed server deployment might include at least eight server machines configured as follows:

• One Oracle InForm Application server machine.
• One Cognos Gateway Server.
• One Cognos Report Application Server.
• One Cognos Content Manager Server.
• One Oracle Directory Server machine.
• Two dedicated Oracle database server machines:
  • One for the Oracle InForm database instance and the reporting database instance.
  • One for the Cognos Analytics Content Store database instance.