7 Managing Usage Tracking

This chapter describes how to manage usage tracking for Oracle Business Intelligence. The Oracle BI Server supports the collection of usage tracking data. When usage tracking is enabled, the Oracle BI Server collects usage tracking data for each query and inserts it directly to a database table.

Note:

The Oracle BI Summary Advisor feature works in conjunction with the usage tracking feature. Summary Advisor only works with direct insertion usage tracking.

Oracle BI Summary Advisor is only available when you are running Oracle Business Intelligence on the Oracle Exalytics Machine. See Using Oracle BI Summary Advisor to Identify Query Candidates for Aggregation in Metadata Repository Builder's Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition.

This chapter includes the following sections:

• About Usage Tracking

• Setting Up Direct Insertion to Collect Information for Usage Tracking

• Description of the Usage Tracking Data