8/12/2019 Covidien UAT Installation Questionnaire , this will
help you to understand the client requirement
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Questions
What is the OS on which Cognos needs to be set-up? Also please
share the version of OS.
Which version and Components of Cognos needs to be
installed?
Is the UAT a distributed environment and replica of Production
or a stand-alone environment?
What will be to database for Content Store?
What will be the Authentication Mode?
Will there be separate Server(s) for setting up the environment
or it has to be shared with other application ServeAny other
applications apart from Cognos required to be installed (eg.
Database set-up or any ETL installations)?
Any specific Configurations are needed to be carried out post
standard installation that exist in other environmen
Which webserver will be used?
Suggestion: ISAPI or CGI type of gateway needs to be used
Performance wise, ISAPI type of gateway is suggested. But, CGI
is most popularly used.
What will be the user base/load?
Suggestion: If user base is > 800 to 1000 and if there are
more num# of jobs/schedules are running, better we
suggest Distributed Installation.
Type of Users/Groups (Authentication) for security?
What will be hadware configuration for Production which is based
on Performance variables -
1. Capacity(User load),
2. Scalablity(Distributed/No. of Servers),
3. Availability(Load Balancing)?
Load balancing options?
Which Application server will be used?
Best Practice: An App Server should be compliant with J2EE
specification for App Server. Oracle Weblogic is the
best option. Also we can go for IBM Websphere.
Does it require Audit Logging Database?
Best Practice: Audit & Notification DB should be used.
For Delivery of reports -
1. Whether reports need to be saved to a File System (Setting of
Burting the reports)?2. Whether Mail server needs to be
configured?
3. Whether Printer setup is required?
Any Portal Customizations?
Peak load timings & Off-peak load timings?
Based on above query, we can decide BI performance & app
server(JVM) Tuning.
Whether Distribution Lists need to be created?
Leveraging of new functionalities in newer version after
Upgrade?
I am Assuming its a distributed/clustered environment.
How many Environment currently they have? & what is the
purpose for creating new environment? Or what they
I have Created one Tab named as "Environment Detail Table" in
this sheet. Kindly fill it.
Which Version of Cognos? With Detailed components?
