Contents

Title and Copyright Information

Preface

• Audience
• Documentation Accessibility
• Related Documents
• Conventions

1 Enterprise Deployment Overview

• 1.1 What Is an Enterprise Deployment?
• 1.2 Terminology
• 1.3 Benefits of Oracle Recommendations
  • 1.3.1 Built-in Security
  • 1.3.2 High Availability
• 1.4 Hardware Requirements
• 1.5 Enterprise Deployment Reference Topology
  • 1.5.1 Oracle Identity Management
  • 1.5.2 Web Tier
    • 1.5.2.1 Load Balancer Requirements
  • 1.5.3 Application Tier
  • 1.5.4 Data Tier
  • 1.5.5 What to Install
  • 1.5.6 Unicast Requirement

2 Database and Environment Preconfiguration

• 2.1 Database Environment Preconfiguration
  • 2.1.1 Setting Up the Database
    • 2.1.1.1 Database Host Requirements
    • 2.1.1.2 Supported Database Versions
    • 2.1.1.3 Database Services
  • 2.1.2 Loading the Oracle Business Intelligence Schemas in the Oracle RAC Database
  • 2.1.3 Backing Up the Database
• 2.2 Network Environment Preconfiguration
  • 2.2.1 Virtual Server Names
    • 2.2.1.1 bi.mycompany.com
    • 2.2.1.2 admin.mycompany.com
    • 2.2.1.3 biinternal.mycompany.com
  • 2.2.2 Load Balancers
  • 2.2.3 IPs and Virtual IPs
    • 2.2.3.1 Enabling Virtual IPs for the Managed Servers
  • 2.2.4 Firewalls and Ports
• 2.3 Shared Storage and Recommended Directory Structure
  • 2.3.1 Terminology for Directories and Directory Environment Variables
  • 2.3.2 Recommended Locations for the Different Directories
  • 2.3.3 Shared Storage Configuration
  • 2.3.4 Ensuring That Shared Network Files Are Accessible in Windows Environments
• 2.4 Clock Synchronization

3 Installing the Software

• 3.1 Software Installation Summary
• 3.2 Installing Oracle HTTP Server
  • 3.2.1 Installing Oracle HTTP Server on WEBHOST1 and WEBHOST2
  • 3.2.2 Backing Up the Installation
• 3.3 Installing Oracle Fusion Middleware
  • 3.3.1 Installing Oracle WebLogic Server and Creating the Middleware Home
  • 3.3.2 Installing Oracle Business Intelligence
  • 3.3.3 Backing Up the Installation

4 Configuring the Web Tier

• 4.1 Configuring the Oracle Web Tier
• 4.2 Validating the Installation
• 4.3 Configuring Oracle HTTP Server with the Load Balancer
• 4.4 Configuring Virtual Hosts

5 Creating a Domain with the Administration Server and First Managed Server

• 5.1 Creating a Domain and the bi_server1 Managed Server on APPHOST1
• 5.2 Configuring JMS for Oracle BI Publisher
• 5.3 Creating boot.properties for the Administration Server on APPHOST1
• 5.4 Starting the Administration Server on APPHOST1
• 5.5 Enabling Administration Server High Availability
  • 5.5.1 Enabling ADMINVHN on APPHOST1
  • 5.5.2 Create a Machine for the Administration Server
  • 5.5.3 Enabling the Administration Server to Listen on the Virtual IP Address
  • 5.5.4 Creating a Separate Domain Directory for the bi_server1 Managed Server
  • 5.5.5 Enabling Fusion Middleware Control Failover
• 5.6 Validating the Administration Server
• 5.7 Setting the Listen Address for bi_server1 Managed Server
  • 5.7.1 Updating the Oracle BI Publisher Scheduler Configuration
• 5.8 Disabling Host Name Verification for the bi_server1 Managed Server
• 5.9 Validating Oracle Business Intelligence on APPHOST1
• 5.10 Configuring Oracle HTTP Server
  • 5.10.1 Configuring Oracle HTTP Server for the Administration Server
  • 5.10.2 Configuring Oracle HTTP Server for the bi_servern Managed Servers
  • 5.10.3 Important Security Considerations
• 5.11 Registering Oracle HTTP Server with Oracle WebLogic Server
• 5.12 Setting the Frontend URL for the Administration Console
• 5.13 Validating Access Through Oracle HTTP Server
  • 5.13.1 Validating the Administration Console and Fusion Middleware Control
  • 5.13.2 Validating bi_cluster
• 5.14 Manually Failing Over the Administration Server to APPHOST2
  • 5.14.1 Assumptions and Procedure
  • 5.14.2 Validating Access to APPHOST2 Through Oracle HTTP Server
  • 5.14.3 Failing the Administration Server Back to APPHOST1
• 5.15 Backing Up the Installation

6 Scaling Out the Oracle Business Intelligence System

• 6.1 Scaling Out the BI System on APPHOST2
  • 6.1.1 Setting Up Oracle BI Enterprise Edition Shared Files
    • 6.1.1.1 Setting the Location of the Shared Oracle BI Repository
    • 6.1.1.2 Setting the Location of the Shared Oracle BI Presentation Catalog
    • 6.1.1.3 Setting the Location of the Global Cache
  • 6.1.2 Using the Configuration Assistant to Scale Out the BI System
• 6.2 Scaling Out the System Components
• 6.3 Configuring Secondary Instances of Singleton System Components
• 6.4 Configuring the bi_server2 Managed Server
  • 6.4.1 Setting the Listen Address for the bi_server2 Managed Server
  • 6.4.2 Disabling Host Name Verification for the bi_server2 Managed Server
• 6.5 Performing Additional Configuration for Oracle Business Intelligence Availability
  • 6.5.1 Additional Configuration Tasks for Oracle BI Scheduler
  • 6.5.2 Additional Configuration Tasks for Oracle Real-Time Decisions
    • 6.5.2.1 Configuring Oracle Real-Time Decisions Clustering Properties
    • 6.5.2.2 Adding System Properties to the Server Start Tab
  • 6.5.3 Additional Configuration Tasks for Oracle BI Publisher
    • 6.5.3.1 Setting the Location of the Shared Oracle BI Publisher Configuration Folder
    • 6.5.3.2 Setting Scheduler Configuration Options
    • 6.5.3.3 Configuring Integration with Oracle BI Presentation Services
    • 6.5.3.4 Setting the Oracle BI EE Data Source
    • 6.5.3.5 Configuring JMS for Oracle BI Publisher
    • 6.5.3.6 Updating the Oracle BI Publisher Scheduler Configuration
  • 6.5.4 Additional Configuration Tasks for Oracle BI for Microsoft Office
    • 6.5.4.1 Configuring Oracle BI for Microsoft Office Properties
    • 6.5.4.2 Validating Oracle BI for Microsoft Office Configuration
• 6.6 Configuring a Default Persistence Store for Transaction Recovery
• 6.7 Starting and Validating Oracle Business Intelligence on APPHOST2
  • 6.7.1 Starting the bi_server2 Managed Server
  • 6.7.2 Starting the Oracle Business Intelligence System Components
  • 6.7.3 Validating Oracle Business Intelligence URLs
• 6.8 Validating Access Through Oracle HTTP Server
• 6.9 Configuring Node Manager for the Managed Servers
• 6.10 Configuring Server Migration for the Managed Servers
• 6.11 Backing Up the Installation

7 Setting Up Node Manager

• 7.1 About Setting Up Node Manager
• 7.2 Changing the Location of the Node Manager Log
• 7.3 Enabling Host Name Verification Certificates for Node Manager
  • 7.3.1 Generating Self-Signed Certificates Using the utils.CertGen Utility
  • 7.3.2 Creating an Identity Keystore Using the utils.ImportPrivateKey Utility
  • 7.3.3 Creating a Trust Keystore Using the Keytool Utility
  • 7.3.4 Configuring Node Manager to Use the Custom Keystores
  • 7.3.5 Configuring Managed Servers to Use the Custom Keystores
  • 7.3.6 Changing the Host Name Verification Setting for the Managed Servers
• 7.4 Starting Node Manager

8 Configuring Server Migration

• 8.1 Setting Up a User and Tablespace for the Server Migration Leasing Table
• 8.2 Creating a Multi-Data Source Using the Administration Console
• 8.3 Enabling Host Name Verification Certificates
• 8.4 Editing the Node Manager Properties File
• 8.5 Setting Environment and Superuser Privileges for the wlsifconfig.sh Script
• 8.6 Configuring Server Migration Targets
• 8.7 Testing the Server Migration

9 Integrating with Oracle Identity Management

• 9.1 Configuring the Credential and Policy Store
  • 9.1.1 Overview of Credential and Policy Store Configuration
  • 9.1.2 Configuring the Credential Store
    • 9.1.2.1 Creating Users and Groups
    • 9.1.2.2 Backing Up Configuration Files
    • 9.1.2.3 Configuring the Identity Store to Use LDAP
    • 9.1.2.4 Setting the Order of Providers
    • 9.1.2.5 Moving the WebLogic Administrator to LDAP
      • 9.1.2.5.1 Updating the boot.properties File and Restarting the System
  • 9.1.3 Configuring the Policy Store
  • 9.1.4 Reassociating Credentials and Policies
  • 9.1.5 Regenerating User GUIDs After Identity Store Reassociation
    • 9.1.5.1 About User GUIDs
    • 9.1.5.2 About GUID Regeneration
    • 9.1.5.3 Regenerating User GUIDs
• 9.2 Oracle Access Manager Integration
  • 9.2.1 About Oracle Access Manager Integration
  • 9.2.2 Using the Oracle Access Manager Configuration Tool
    • 9.2.2.1 About the Oracle Access Manager Configuration Tool
    • 9.2.2.2 Collecting Information for the Oracle Access Manager Configuration Tool
    • 9.2.2.3 Running the Oracle Access Manager Configuration Tool
    • 9.2.2.4 Verifying Successful Creation of the Policy Domain and AccessGate
  • 9.2.3 Updating the Host Identifier
  • 9.2.4 Updating the WebGate Profile
  • 9.2.5 Installing and Configuring WebGate
  • 9.2.6 Setting Up WebLogic Authenticators
    • 9.2.6.1 Setting Up the Oracle Access Manager ID Asserter
    • 9.2.6.2 Setting the Order of Providers
  • 9.2.7 Configuring Applications
    • 9.2.7.1 Enabling SSO/Oracle Access Manager for Oracle BI Enterprise Edition
    • 9.2.7.2 Enabling SSO/Oracle Access Manager for Oracle BI Publisher
    • 9.2.7.3 Enabling SSO/Oracle Access Manager for Oracle BI for Microsoft Office
    • 9.2.7.4 Enabling SSO/Oracle Access Manager for Oracle BI Search
    • 9.2.7.5 Enabling SSO/Oracle Access Manager for Oracle Real-Time Decisions
      • 9.2.7.5.1 Oracle RTD and Oracle Access Manager Logout Guidelines
      • 9.2.7.5.2 Avoiding Problems with Decision Center Logout Redirection

10 Managing Enterprise Deployments

• 10.1 Starting and Stopping Oracle Business Intelligence
  • 10.1.1 Starting and Stopping Oracle Business Intelligence Managed Servers
  • 10.1.2 Starting and Stopping Oracle Business Intelligence System Components
• 10.2 Monitoring Enterprise Deployments
• 10.3 Scaling Enterprise Deployments
  • 10.3.1 Scaling Up the Oracle Business Intelligence Topology
  • 10.3.2 Scaling Out the Oracle Business Intelligence Topology
    • 10.3.2.1 Scale-out Procedure for Oracle Business Intelligence
• 10.4 Performing Backups and Recoveries
• 10.5 Patching Enterprise Deployments
• 10.6 Troubleshooting
  • 10.6.1 Page Not Found When Accessing BI Applications Through Load Balancer
  • 10.6.2 Administration Server Fails to Start After a Manual Failover
  • 10.6.3 Error While Activating Changes in Administration Console
  • 10.6.4 bi_server Managed Server Not Failed Over After Server Migration
  • 10.6.5 bi_server Managed Server Not Reachable From Browser After Server Migration
  • 10.6.6 OAM Configuration Tool Does Not Remove URLs
  • 10.6.7 Users Redirected to Login Screen After Activating Changes
  • 10.6.8 Users Redirected to Home Page After Activating Changes
  • 10.6.9 Configured JOC Port Already in Use
  • 10.6.10 Out-of-Memory Issues on Managed Servers
  • 10.6.11 Missing JMS Instances on Oracle BI Publisher Scheduler Diagnostics Page
  • 10.6.12 Oracle BI Publisher Jobs in Inconsistent State After Managed Server Shutdown
  • 10.6.13 JMS Instance Fails In an Oracle BI Publisher Cluster
• 10.7 Other Recommendations
  • 10.7.1 Preventing Timeouts for SQLNet Connections
  • 10.7.2 Auditing

Index