This chapter provides a general introduction to Oracle WebCenter Capture system administration, including an introduction to Oracle WebCenter Capture, workspaces, system administrator and user roles, and typical system administrator tasks.
This chapter includes the following sections:
Oracle WebCenter Capture provides scalable document capture focused on process-oriented imaging applications and image-enabling enterprise applications. With a web interface for centralized or distributed environments, Capture streamlines the capture process for paper and electronic documents. It is fully integrated with Oracle WebCenter Content: Imaging and Oracle WebCenter Content to provide organizations with one system to capture, store, manage, and retrieve their mission critical business content.
A Capture workspace represents a complete capture system, providing a centralized location for metadata, configuration profiles, and physical data for a particular environment. Workspace managers configure and manage workspaces they have been granted access to and control others' access to the workspace.
Oracle WebCenter Capture provides a central configuration console, called the Oracle WebCenter Capture Workspace Console, in which workspace managers create and manage workspaces and their elements for use throughout Capture. For example, workspace managers create metadata fields, choice lists, and database lookups in the console, then use them in multiple areas in Capture, such as client profiles and processor jobs.
The Capture client is the end-user application that a knowledge worker or production user uses to create batches using scanners or document files imported from the user's system. The client is also used to index documents (apply metadata values).
For more information on workspaces and their usage, see "Capture Workspaces Overview" in Oracle Fusion Middleware Managing Oracle WebCenter Capture.
Capture provides the following user and administrator roles, each with varying access and privileges:
System Administrators provide high level configuration, administration, and monitoring of the Capture environment. System administrators are typically responsible for the following tasks:
Installing Oracle WebCenter Capture
Configuring Capture
Creating Capture users and groups
Assigning users from the LDAP domain to the various Capture application roles (CaptureUser, CaptureWorkspaceManager, and CaptureWorkspaceViewer)
Monitoring and troubleshooting Capture issues
Capture Workspace Managers have control of the workspaces they create and to those workspaces to which they have been granted access. They can add, edit, copy, and delete workspaces. Capture workspace management is covered in Oracle Fusion Middleware Managing Oracle WebCenter Capture. To access workspaces, system administrators must be assigned the workspace administrators group.
Capture Workspace Viewers have read-only access to workspaces to which they have been granted access. For example, support personnel might be granted this privilege in order to review workspace configurations such as client profiles and processor jobs for troubleshooting. Workspace viewers cannot make changes to workspaces.
Capture Users have client access to workspaces to which they have been granted access. Users are further granted access to specific client profiles. Capture user information is covered in Oracle Fusion Middleware Using Oracle WebCenter Capture. Any user that needs access to the client needs to be assigned the CaptureUser role in Oracle Enterprise Manager.
Developers who write customization scripts for use in Capture components may either be granted the workspace manager role or they may provide scripts to workspace managers who load, reference, and test them in Capture components. Information on developing scripts for Capture is provided in Oracle Fusion Middleware Developing Scripts for Oracle WebCenter Capture.
See Section 3.3 for more information on how to create Capture users and assign roles to them.
The following provides a summary of the steps to initially configure and monitor an Oracle WebCenter Capture system environment:
Install and perform initial configuration of Oracle WebCenter Capture, as described in Oracle Fusion Middleware Installing and Configuring Oracle WebCenter Content.
Use Enterprise Manager to make changes to system settings. See Section 3.2.
Use Enterprise Manager to assign LDAP users and groups to Capture application roles. See Section 3.3.2.
Use the Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Console to manage data sources for database choice lists and database lookups. For more information about JDBC data sources, see Oracle Fusion Middleware Configuring and Managing JDBC Data Sources for Oracle WebLogic Server.
Apply SSL security to the website. See Section 3.3.4.
Monitor the Capture environment and manage log and audit files. See Chapter 4.