Contents

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Preface

Intended Audience

Conventions

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Prerequisites to run Discoverer Plus and Discoverer Viewer

OracleAS Discoverer Navigation and Accessibility

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1 Introducing OracleAS Discoverer

1.1 Introducing OracleAS Discoverer

1.2 What is OracleAS Discoverer?

1.3 What are the new configuration features in OracleAS Discoverer 10g (9.0.4)

1.4 About OracleAS Discoverer and Oracle Application Server

1.5 About configuring OracleAS Discoverer

1.6 How to confirm an OracleAS Discoverer installation

1.7 About connecting to Discoverer

1.8 What is the OracleAS Discoverer architecture?

1.9 About the Discoverer client tier

1.10 About the Discoverer Services tier

1.11 About the Discoverer database tier

1.12 How does OracleAS Discoverer work?

2 Running OracleAS Discoverer

2.1 Running OracleAS Discoverer

2.2 General information about running OracleAS Discoverer

2.3 What are the supported Web browser versions for Discoverer?

2.4 About restricting how users can run Discoverer

2.5 Which port number is Discoverer installed on?

2.6 What are the memory requirements and privileges required to run Discoverer Plus
and Discoverer Viewer?

2.7 About running Discoverer Plus over HTTP for the first time on a client machine

2.8 About running Discoverer over HTTPS

2.9 How to run Discoverer Plus over HTTP in Microsoft Internet Explorer for the first
time on a Windows client machine

2.10 How to run Discoverer Plus over HTTP in Netscape Navigator for the first time on
a Windows client machine

2.11 How to run Discoverer Plus over HTTP in Netscape Navigator for the first time on
a UNIX client machine

2.12 How to run Discoverer Viewer over HTTP

3 Managing OracleAS Discoverer connections

3.1 Managing OracleAS Discoverer connections

3.2 What is an OracleAS Discoverer connection?

3.3 What are the different types of Discoverer connections

3.4 About managing Discoverer connections?

3.5 About the Discoverer connections pages

3.6 About specifying whether Discoverer end users can create their own private
connections

3.7 How to create a public connection

3.8 How to specify whether Discoverer end users can create private connections

4 Maintaining OracleAS Discoverer

4.1 Maintaining OracleAS Discoverer

4.2 About Oracle Enterprise Manager Application Server Control

4.3 About using Application Server Control to manage Discoverer components

4.4 About starting and stopping the Discoverer Service

4.5 About disabling and enabling Discoverer client tier components

4.6 About starting the Discoverer Service and the Discoverer servlets without using
Application Server Control

4.7 How to start and stop the Discoverer servlets

4.8 About configuring options for the Discoverer Service and the Discoverer client tier
components

4.9 About monitoring Discoverer metrics

4.10 How to list ports used by OracleAS

4.11 About Discoverer diagnostics and logging

4.12 About running Discoverer Plus with different Java Virtual Machines

5 Installing OracleAS Discoverer in a multiple machine environment

5.1 Installing OracleAS Discoverer in a multiple machine environment

5.2 What is a multiple machine Discoverer environment?

5.3 About OracleAS installations

5.4 What are the pre-requisites for using OracleAS Web Cache to provide load balancing
for OracleAS Discoverer

5.5 About using OracleAS Web Cache Manager to configure load balancing for OracleAS
Discoverer

5.6 How to deploy OracleAS Discoverer with load balancing using OracleAS Web
Cache

5.7 About the Discoverer Preferences component in a multiple machine environment

5.8 About configuring the tnsnames.ora file in a multiple machine environment

6 Using OracleAS Discoverer Viewer with OracleAS Web Cache

6.1 Using OracleAS Discoverer Viewer with OracleAS Web Cache

6.2 About OracleAS Web Cache

6.3 What are the benefits of OracleAS Web Cache?

6.4 How does OracleAS Web Cache work?

6.5 When to use Discoverer Viewer with OracleAS Web Cache

6.6 How to use Discoverer Viewer with OracleAS Web Cache

6.7 How to turn on OracleAS Web Cache

6.8 How to restart OracleAS Web Cache

6.9 How to display the Rerun Query link, hide the Preferences link, and hide the
Presentation Options link

6.10 How to turn off Discoverer Viewer's 'sticky worksheet' behavior

6.11 Notes about using Discoverer Viewer with OracleAS Web Cache

7 Customizing OracleAS Discoverer Viewer

7.1 Customizing OracleAS Discoverer Viewer

7.2 What is Discoverer Viewer customization?

7.3 Notes on customizing Discoverer in a multiple machine installation

7.4 What tools do you need to customize Discoverer Viewer?

7.5 About the sample browser look and feel file (blaf.htm)

7.6 About updating the Discoverer Viewer stylesheet file

7.7 About updating Discoverer Viewer XML files

7.8 About Discoverer Viewer options

7.9 About presentation options

7.10 About presentation templates

7.11 How to change the default Discoverer Viewer look and feel

7.12 How to change the default Discoverer Viewer logo

7.13 How to change Discoverer Viewer options

7.14 How to create a presentation template

8 Managing OracleAS Discoverer preferences

8.1 Managing OracleAS Discoverer preferences

8.2 What are Discoverer preferences?

8.3 About Discoverer system preferences

8.4 About Discoverer user preferences

8.5 About migrating Discoverer preferences

8.6 How to set user preferences for all users

8.7 How to set individual preferences for specific users

8.8 List of Discoverer user preferences

9 Using OracleAS Discoverer with OracleAS Portal

9.1 Using OracleAS Discoverer with OracleAS Portal

9.2 What is OracleAS Portal?

9.3 How to use OracleAS Discoverer with OracleAS Portal

9.4 How to register Discoverer Portlet Provider with OracleAS Portal

9.5 How to edit the Discoverer Portlet Provider

9.6 About changing the default performance settings for OracleAS Discoverer

10 Optimizing OracleAS Discoverer performance and scalability

10.1 Optimizing OracleAS Discoverer performance and scalability

10.2 About Discoverer and performance

10.3 About Discoverer and scalability

10.4 How to improve Discoverer performance

10.5 How to take advantage of Discoverer's scalable architecture

11 Starting OracleAS Discoverer using URL parameters

11.1 Starting OracleAS Discoverer using URL parameters

11.2 Why use Discoverer with URL parameters

11.3 What is the URL parameter syntax?

11.4 About specifying workbooks and worksheets using URL parameters

11.5 Examples of using URL parameters

11.6 Generic Discoverer URL parameters

11.7 Discoverer Plus URL parameters

11.8 Discoverer Viewer URL parameters

12 Maintaining security with OracleAS Discoverer

12.1 Maintaining security with OracleAS Discoverer

12.2 About Discoverer and security

12.3 About Discoverer and the database security model

12.4 About Discoverer and the Discoverer EUL security model

12.5 About Discoverer and the Oracle Applications security model

12.6 About Discoverer and the OracleAS Security model

12.7 Using Discoverer with OracleAS Framework Security

12.8 Using Discoverer with Oracle Identity Management Infrastructure

12.9 Frequently asked questions about security

13 OracleAS Discoverer and Oracle Applications

13.1 OracleAS Discoverer and Oracle Applications

13.2 About Discoverer connections and Oracle Applications

13.3 About Discoverer preference settings for Oracle Applications

13.4 How to configure Discoverer for an Oracle Applications only environment

13.5 How to configure Discoverer for a mixed application environment

A OracleAS Discoverer configuration files

A.1 OracleAS Discoverer configuration files

A.2 List of Discoverer file locations

A.3 List of configuration settings in ui_config.xml

A.4 List of configuration settings in configuration.xml

A.5 List of configuration settings in plus_config.xml

A.6 List of configuration settings in opmn.xml

B Changing Infrastructure Services for Discoverer

B.1 Changing Infrastructure Services for Discoverer

B.2 About OracleAS Release 9.0.4 installations

B.3 About changing Infrastructure Services for OracleAS Discoverer

C OracleAS Discoverer administrative account information

C.1 OracleAS Discoverer administrative account information

C.2 Database privileges granted by OracleAS Discoverer scripts to the PUBLIC user

C.3 Database privileges granted by OracleAS Discoverer scripts to the Discoverer
manager

D Upgrading from earlier versions of OracleAS Discoverer

D.1 Upgrading from earlier versions of OracleAS Discoverer

D.2 Upgrading from Discoverer Version 9.0.2 to Discoverer Version 9.0.4

D.3 Upgrading from Discoverer Release 4.1 to Discoverer Version 9.0.4

E Frequently asked questions

E.1 Frequently asked questions

Index