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About Installing Siebel Charts

Siebel Charts, which uses the third-party product NetCharts Server from Visual Mining, provides functionality for generating and displaying charts in Siebel Business Applications. Siebel Charts configuration is part of installation. You specify configuration-related information in the installer before files are copied to the target computer.

For general requirements, see Requirements for Installing and Configuring Siebel Business Applications. See also the NetCharts Server Installation Guide by Visual Mining, Inc., on the Siebel Business Applications Third-Party Bookshelf in the product media pack on Oracle Software Delivery Cloud.

You can install Siebel Charts on any server computer in your local area network, as long as that server is able to ping the Siebel Servers. Typically, it is installed on a Siebel Server computer. If Siebel Charts is not installed on a Siebel Server computer, then install it on the same subnet as the Siebel Servers. No additional license key is required for Siebel Charts.

NOTE:  This topic supplements the installation instructions provided by Visual Mining, Inc., which are provided in the Siebel Business Applications Third-Party Bookshelf in the product media pack on Oracle Software Delivery Cloud. It is not intended to replace them.

Default Ports Used by Siebel Charts

The Siebel Charts server requires that certain ports be available. If these ports are used by any other application, then the Charts server will not start correctly. Siebel Charts uses the following ports by default:

• 8001. This port is used by Web browsers connecting to the Siebel Charts server. This port is specified during the installation and can be changed.
• 8002. This port is used for shutdown requests. The port that is used is the port number specified during the installation plus one; by default, this is 8001 plus 1 (8002).
• 1099. This port is used for administration console access (using Java RMI).

By default, port 1099 is also used by Siebel Management Server. If you are using both Siebel Management Server and the Siebel Charts server, then you must either install them on different computers or specify a different port number when you install and configure Siebel Management Server. For more information about configuring Siebel Management Server, see Process of Configuring Siebel Management Agents and Siebel Management Server.