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Installing the Actuate Active Portal

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Actuate Active Portal provides access to the Siebel Reports Server from the Web. Using Actuate Active Portal, you can access and work with reports through Web browsers.

To install the Actuate Active Portal

Insert the UNIX_OS Server Ancillary Programs CD 1 of 2 into your CD-ROM drive.

Where:

UNIX_OS indicates the type of UNIX being installed

Navigate to the following directory:

Thirdpty/actuate/language/activeportal

Where:

language = the Siebel code for the Language Pack you installed; for example, enu for U.S. English.

For the remaining installation steps, refer to Installing Actuate e.Reporting System manual on the Siebel eBusiness Third-Party Bookshelf under Actuate.

NOTE:  When installing the Active Portal on the same machine as the Management Console, specify the absolute path when prompted for the location of the Actuate HTTP service (for example, /export/home/actuate/actuate_http_service).

Guidelines for the Actuate Active Portal Installation

During the installation of the Actuate Active Portal, note the following:

When prompted for the context root, enter acweb.

NOTE:  Siebel Systems recommends that the context root, acweb, not be changed. This context root is integrated into the Siebel application. If changed, you will not be able to view reports over the Internet.

After the Actuate Active Portal is installed, you should confirm that the installation was successful.

Confirming a successful installation of the Actuate Active Portal

Confirm that the Actuate HTTP Service used by Active Portal is running.
Open a Web browser and access Active Portal's login page by typing the URL:

http://host:port/acweb/login.jsp

Where:

host = the name of the machine where the Actuate Active Portal is installed.

port = the port number that the Actuate HTTP Service listens on. The default port number is 8700.

The Active Portal login page appears.
Using Administrator as the default user name and a blank password, click Log In.

The Active Portal home page appears.

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