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Best Practices for Setting Up an Oracle BI Clustered Environment

This section provides some general guidelines on setting up and configuring your Oracle BI clustered environment.

It is recommended that every machine in the BI deployment be set up with the same path structure. If the primary paths for OracleBI_HOME, OracleBIData_HOME and OracleBITemp_HOME are, for example, D:\OracleBI, D:\OracleBIData and D:\OracleBIData\tmp respectively, then all machines should

Configure the NQSConfig.INI and NQClusterConfig.INI files, Scheduler instanceconfig.xml file, and BI Presentation Services instanceconfig.xml file for one instance each of BI Server, BI Scheduler and BI Presentation Services. Ensure proper functioning of Oracle BI. Then copy the appropriate configuration files to the other machines.