Test the IBM® Cognos® BI installation

Test your IBM® Cognos® installation using the following guidelines.

Stop and restart the Cognos® BI server and check the cogserver.log file for errors. The file is located in the logs directory of your Cognos® installation.

Verify that database tables exist in the Cognos® content store. There should be approximately 134 tables.

If you have a distributed Cognos® environment with components installed on different machines, for example Cognos® BI server on a UNIX™ system and Framework Manager installed on a Windows™ machine, do the following.

Verify that you can communicate with the internal and external dispatcher and the Content Manager from the machine where the Gateway is installed. To test components that do not have a user interface, enter the URI of the component in a browser’s address field. A Cognos® page should appear in the browser.

Open Framework Manager and start to create a project. This test ensures that you can log in. Check the log file again for errors.