5.3 Maintaining the Analysis Center Installation

To modify an existing Analysis Center installation, run the Analysis Center setup program on a computer that hosts one or more Analysis Center components. However, you cannot use the Analysis Center installer to remove or repair the Reporting Center components. To remove the Reporting Center components, click Control Panel > Programs and Features > NetIQ Reporting Center > Uninstall.

If you choose to repair a Analysis Center 3.0 or later setup that has one or more Analysis Center 3.0 or later hotfixes applied, the setup reverts to the base version of the Analysis Center setup. You must reapply the hotfixes after repairing the setup.

For information about the Reporting Center components, see Section 5.1, Overview of Analysis Center Installation.

To modify an existing Analysis Center installation:

  1. Do one of the following to launch the Analysis Center installer:

    • Run the Analysis Center setup.exe file.

    • Click Control Panel > Programs and Features > NetIQ Analysis Center.

  2. Select one of the following and click Next:

    • Modify: Lets you install Analysis Center components or uninstall the previously installed components, except the Reporting Center components. In the Component Selection dialog box, all of the installed Analysis Center components are selected by default. Select the additional components you want to install and deselect the components you want to uninstall.

      However, to remove Reporting Center components you must use the Control Panel. Click Control Panel > Programs and Features > NetIQ Reporting Center > Uninstall.

    • Repair: Lets you repair all the previously installed Analysis Center components except the Reporting Center components. You cannot repair an existing Reporting Center installation.

    • Remove: Lets you remove all the previously installed Analysis Center components except the Reporting Center components.

      To remove Reporting Center components you must use the Control Panel. Click Control Panel > Programs and Features > NetIQ Reporting Center > Uninstall.

  3. Follow the on-screen prompts.

When you remove the Analysis Center Data Warehouse component, the removal of SSIS packages and SQL Server Agent jobs take considerable time depending on the following:

  • The number of packages and jobs

  • The extent to which your Analysis Center environment is distributed among different computers

If you remove an existing Analysis Center installation in preparation for a new installation, ensure that all Analysis Center SQL databases, Data Marts, SSIS packages, and SQL Server Agent jobs have been removed before reinstalling Analysis Center.