Installation guide

Procedure

1. Click Start and select All Programs > Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 > SQL Server Management

Studio.

2. Expand the server instance, select Security and select Logins.

3. Right-click the login ID of the user who installs VCM and select Properties.

4. In the Select a page area, select Server Roles.

5. In the Server roles area, select the sysadmin check box.

6. Click OK to save the settings and close the window.

What to do next

Configure the Web components of the VCM Collector. See "Configure the Web Components" below.

Configure the Web Components

The Web components of the VCM Collector contain Web applications such as IIS and SQL Server

Reporting Services (SSRS), other services, and VCM software components. Before you install VCM, you

must configure the Web components of the VCM Collector.

The Windows machine that hosts the Web components must be running Internet Information Services

(IIS) 7.5. IIS is installed when you install Windows Server 2008 R2.

The SQL Server license includes SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). In your installation configuration,

when you run SSRS and SQL Server on the same machine, the SQL Server database machine can take on

the role of the Report Server (SSRS).

VCM 5.7 supports running SSRS on the Web server or on the database server in a split installation.

Depending on the separation of services in your environment, you might want to install SSRS on the Web

server machine in a split installation, because SSRS has its own Web server.

If you install SSRS on the Web server, it requires an additional SQL Server license, because you are

installing SSRS on a Windows Server 2008 R2 machine that is separate from the SQL Server database

services. If you run SQL Server Enterprise Edition, all SQL Server services running in guests on a single

virtual machine host are covered by the Enterprise Edition license.

Prerequisites

n Perform the prerequisite tasks for your installation configuration.

n Place the Web server in the Internet Explorer Trusted Zone so that Internet Explorer can delegate the

VCM user's credentials to the Web service for use with SQL Server. See "Place the Web Server in the

Internet Explorer Trusted Zone" on page 101.

n If the domain firewall is turned on, verify that any required ports are open. If the database server is

blocked from communicating with the Collector, problems can occur when you submit jobs. VCM

displays an error about the SAS service, and the VCM Debug Event Log displays failures when calling

ecm_sp_collector_control.

n Verify that .NET Framework 3.5.1 is installed on Windows Server 2008 R2 machines where Package

Studio will be installed.

n Verify that you have an Internet connection to check for patch bulletin updates.

n On the Windows Server 2008 R2 Web server machine, verify that the following .NET Framework

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