Installation guide

Verify ASP.NETRole Service
To support client programming, verify the status of the ASP.NET Role Service to confirm that the .NET
framework is installed correctly.
Procedure
1. Click Start and select All Programs > Administrative Tools > Server Manager.
2. Expand Server Manager (<server name>) and expand Roles.
3. Click Web Server (IIS).
4. Scroll down to Role Services.
5. Locate ASP.NET and verify that the role service is installed.
6. If the role service is not installed, click Add Role Services and add the ASP.NET role service.
What to do next
Configure the Web components for the combined VCM Collector and Web server. See "Configure the
Web Components" below.
Configure the Web Components
The combined VCM Collector and Web server contains 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 combined VCM Collector and Web server.
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.
For a two-tier installation, the Web server components reside on the same machine as the VCM Collector.
The SQL Server license includes SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). In your two-tier split 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 two-tier split installation configuration. See "Two-Tier Split
Installation" on page 61.
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.
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