Installation guide

Establish SQL Server Administration Rights
Members of the SQLServer sysadmin fixed server role can perform any activity in the server. The user
who installs VCM must have SQL Server sysadmin rights.
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 separate Web server. See "Configure the Web Server" below.
Configure the Web Server
The 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 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.
The SQL Server license includes SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). In your three-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 three-tier split installation configuration. See "Three-Tier Split
Installation" on page 87.
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.
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