What's New in This Release


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Overview of Oracle BI Enterprise Deployment


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Clustering, Load Balancing, and Failover in Oracle Business Intelligence

Oracle BI Cluster Server Components

Clustering of Oracle BI Components of the Presentation Layer

Communication Between Oracle BI Components in a Clustered Environment

Failover Mechanisms for Oracle BI Components

Shared Files and Directories

About the Cluster-Aware Cache

Configuration of BI Components for Clustering, Load Balancing, and Failover

Setting Parameters in the NQSConfig.INI File

Setting Parameters in the NQClusterConfig.INI File

Configuring BI Presentation Services

Configuring BI Scheduler

Configuring BI Presentation Services Plug-in

Modifying BI ODBC Data Sources For Communication With BI Cluster

Best Practices for Setting Up an Oracle BI Clustered Environment

Troubleshooting an Oracle BI Clustered Environment

Monitoring and Managing BI Servers and BI Schedulers in a Cluster

Deploying Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher for High Availability

Integrating BI Publisher with Oracle BI Clustered Environment

Integrating BI Publisher in BI Presentation Services User Interface


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Deploying Oracle Business Intelligence for High Availability

Planning For the Installation

Installation of Oracle BI Components

Installing Oracle BI Client Tools (Windows)

Installing Oracle BI Cluster Controllers

Installing Oracle BI Server

Installing Oracle BI Scheduler

Installing Oracle BI Presentation Services and Oracle BI Javahost

Installing Oracle BI Presentation Services Plug-in

Shared Files and Directories

Configuration of Oracle BI Components for Clustering, Load Balancing, and Failover

Pre-Configuration Tasks

Setting Parameters in the NQSConfig.INI File

Setting Parameters in the NQClusterConfig.INI File

Configuring BI Presentation Services

Configuring BI Scheduler

Configuring BI Presentation Services Plug-in

Modifying BI ODBC Data Sources For Communication With BI Cluster

Deploying Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher for High Availability

Installing BI Publisher

Deploying BI Publisher Engine on J2EE Based Application Servers

Configuring BI Publisher to Use a Shared File System Repository

Integrating BI Publisher in BI Presentation Services User Interface

Integrating BI Publisher with Oracle BI Clustered Environment


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Oracle BI Presentation Services Credential Store

Credentials and Aliases

Supported Storage Types

Configuring BI Presentation Services to Identify Credential Stores

Credential Store Storage Types

File System Store (XML File Store)

Java Keystore

Custom Store


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Enabling Secure Communication in Oracle Business Intelligence

Process for Enabling Secure Communication for Oracle BI Components

Creating Certificates and Keys

Generating Certificates and Keys Using openssl

Creating the Certificate Authority (CA) Certificate

Generating the Hash Version of the CA Certificate File

Generating Server Certificate and Server Private Key

Creating the Client Certificate and Client Private Key

Creating Passphrase Files or Passphrase-Producing Programs for Server and Client Keys

Creating the Java Keystore

Generating the Private Key

Generating the Certificate

Signing the Client Certificate

Importing the Certificate Authority File to a Java Keystore

Importing the Certificate to the Java Keystore

Configuring Oracle Business Intelligence to Communicate Over SSL

Configuring Oracle BI Cluster Controller

Configuring Oracle BI Cluster Controller in Minimum Security Scenario

Configuring Oracle BI Cluster Controller in Near-Maximum Security Scenario

Configuring Oracle BI Server for Communication Over SSL

Configuring Oracle BI Server in Minimum Security Scenario

Configuring Oracle BI Server in Near-Maximum Security Scenario

Configuring Oracle BI Server Client

Configuring Oracle BI Scheduler

Configuring Oracle BI Job Manager

Configuring Oracle BI Presentation Services for Communication Over SSL

Configuring Oracle BI Presentation Services Plug-In for Communication over SSL

Configuring BI Presentation Services (Java Servlet) for Communication over SSL

Configuring BI Presentation Services Plug-in (ISAPI) for Communication Over SSL

Configuring Oracle BI Javahost for Communication Over SSL

Configuring BI Presentation Services and BI Publisher When SSL is Enabled


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Oracle Business Intelligence Authentication Mechanisms


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Implementing Single Sign-On Products With Oracle Business Intelligence

Prerequisites for SSO Systems to Integrate With Oracle Business Intelligence

Understanding How Oracle BI Presentation Services Operates in an SSO Environment

Enabling SSO Authentication for Oracle Business Intelligence

Configuring Oracle BI Presentation Services to Use Impersonator User

Configuring Oracle BI Presentation Services to Operate in an SSO Environment

Important Considerations For Implementing SSO for Oracle Business Intelligence

Sample Configuration Files

Using J2EE integration

Using Microsoft IIS to perform user authentication

Using an HTTP header with additional parameters


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Other Deployment-Related Topics

Administrator Accounts and Password Synchronization

BI Presentation Services and BI Scheduler

BI Presentation Services and BI Publisher

Synchronizing Oracle BI Administrator Password Changes

Oracle BI Communications Across Security Firewalls

Changing the BI Presentation Services Listener Port

Configuring BI Presentation Services Plug-in when BI Presentation Services Listener Port Has Been Changed

Improving Oracle BI Web Client Performance

Static File Caching

Static File Bypass


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Integrating Oracle Internet Directory With Oracle Business Intelligence

Using Oracle Internet Directory for User Authentication in Oracle BI

Creating an LDAP Server Entry in the Repository for OID

Configuring the Initialization Block Used for User Authentication

Provisioning for Oracle BI Using Directory Integration Platform (DIP)

Creating an Identity for Oracle BI Application in OID

Adding Oracle BI Application to Privileged Groups

Implementing the Directory Integration Platform (DIP) Standard Package

Defining Provisioning Policies for Oracle BI


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Enabling Oracle Single Sign-On for Oracle Business Intelligence

Registering Oracle BI as a Partner Application to the Oracle Single Sign-On Server

Configuring Oracle BI for SSO

Configuring BI Presentation Services to Use the Impersonator User

Creating the Oracle BI Server Impersonator User

Adding Impersonator User Credentials to Oracle BI Presentation Services Credential Store

Configuring Oracle BI Presentation Services to Identify the Credential Store and Decryption Passphrase

Configuring BI Presentation Services to Operate in the SSO Environment

Additional Configuration When SSO is Enabled for Oracle BI and BI Publisher


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Granting the Oracle BI Log On as Service Right


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Using the CryptoTools Utility

Syntax

Credstore Sub-Commands


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Supporting Files For Provisioning Using Directory Integration Platform (DIP)

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