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Overview of the Oracle BI Presentation Services Administration Screen

The Oracle BI Presentation Services Administration screen contains the following sections:

  • Product Information. This section provides information about your current installation, such as the product version in use, the path to the current Presentation Catalog, and a link to a list of features licensed by your organization.

    In Windows, the following information also is shown:

      • Available Paging Memory. The amount of physical memory remaining plus any paging memory remaining
      • Available Virtual Address Space. The amount of virtual address space remaining to process

        (If either of these values is very low, then Oracle BI Presentation Services may run out of memory.)

  • Activities. This section provides links to administrative functions. Table 16 lists and describes the links in the Activities section.

NOTE:  The Activities section may also contain links for other Siebel applications from Oracle that your organization has licensed, such as Oracle's Siebel onDemand or Siebel Marketing. Such links are not listed in Table 16. For information about an application-specific link, click Help (if present) on the screen that opens when you click the link, or consult the administrator documentation for the application.

Table 16. Description of Links in the Activities Section in Oracle BI Presentation Services Administration
Link
Description

Manage Presentation Catalog Groups and Users

Opens the Presentation Catalog Security: Groups and Users screen, where you can control access to Oracle BI Presentation Services for both Presentation Services groups and individual users.

Manage Presentation Catalog

Opens the Manage Catalog screen, where you can edit, rename, set permissions for, and delete folders and items in the Presentation Catalog. This feature can also be accessed by clicking the Manage Catalog button in the left pane in Answers.

Manage Interactive Dashboards

Opens the Manage Dashboards screen, where you can administer dashboard security. Depending on the level of authority granted to you based on the user name you log on with, you can use this screen to create and delete dashboards, and access the screens to change user and group permissions to dashboards and to change the properties of dashboards.

Manage Sessions

Opens the Session Management screen, where you can manage active sessions, such as canceling running requests and viewing the log file NQQuery.log for information about a request.

Manage iBot Sessions

Opens the iBot Session Management screen, where you can view information about currently active iBot sessions.

Manage BI Publisher

Opens the Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher Administration URL, where you can manage BI Publisher users, permissions, jobs, and files and folders.

(The BI Publisher Administration URL is set in the AdvancedReporting/AdminURL element in the Oracle BI Presentation Services configuration file (instanceconfig.xml).)

For more information about Oracle BI Publisher, see Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher User's Guide.

Manage Privileges

Opens the Privilege Administration screen, where you can manage privileges and rights for both Presentation Services groups and individual users to various Oracle BI Presentation Services features and functions.

Manage Device Types

Opens the Manage Device Types screen, where you can manage device types for device categories supported by Delivers.

Issue SQL

Opens the Issue SQL Directly screen, where you can enter an SQL statement to be issued directly to the Oracle BI Server. This feature is useful for testing the server only. Results are not formatted, and it is not possible to save the SQL issued here as a request.

Toggle Maintenance Mode

Toggles Maintenance Mode on and off. (When Maintenance Mode is on, users cannot write to the Presentation Catalog.)

Reload Files and Metadata

Reloads XML message files, refreshes server metadata, and clears Oracle BI Presentation Services caches.
  
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