Informatica Installation Quick Guide

Step 1:

Install or use any existing Oracle database

database name = info/xe

sys/system pwd = info/xe
service name = info/xe
port = 1521

Step 2:

Create the following database user accounts for the following PowerCenter components:
♦Domain configuration
♦Data Profiling warehouse
♦PowerCenter repository
♦Data Analyzer repository
♦Metadata Manager repository

Connect to oracle
Sqlplus “/ as sysdba
CREATE USER Domain_conf identified by Domain_conf;
CREATE USER PCR identified by PCR;

grant connect, resource, create view to Domain_conf, DATA_PROF_WH, PCR , dar , mmr;

Step 3:

Create a windows user with name info and password info with administrative rights.

Windows user (user name = info password = info)

Logon with this user

The user account must be a member of the Administrators group and have the Log on as a service

Grant info to logon as service (Administraive tools -> local security policy)

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Step 4:

Make sure that port 6001 to 6105 are open on server.

To know if port is available or not, run the following command on command prompt

netstat -a | findstr "6001"

Step 5:

Goto Informatica installer

Make the compatibility of the installer.exe to windows 2000.

Right click on install.exe, goto properties, click on compatibility tab and select compatibility mode as windows 2000.

Step 6:
start installer with install.exe under
I:\Softwares\INFORMATICA\infa_powercenter_windows_x86_32bit_811_disc1\Informatica_8.1.1_PowerCenter_Windows_32Bit\PowerCenter_8.1
.1_SE_for_Windows_32Bit\pc811_windows32

License key = I:\Softwares\INFORMATICA\Informatica PC 8.1.1 Doc\Oracle_All_OS_Prod.key

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. You have installed

Database URL is hostname:port number of database. Port is generally 1521.

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If you donot know the port, give the following command on database server

Lsnrctl status

This would show you service name and port number.

Ensure that system environmental variable PATH have C:\Informatica\PowerCenter8.1.1\server\bin path included.

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If you get a pinging domain error, Open the informatica service , change the logon username as ./info and password info.
restart service and it should work.

Recall that our repository user in database is PCR Password PCR.

type - oracle
connect string is INFO (local tnsname.ora net service name).
hostname = 99.173.29.153
Port = 1522

Make sure that hostname is there in the hosts file for 127.0.0.1

CLIENT INSTALLATION

Start Installer and choose client and follow the screenshots as below.

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