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Infrastructure Quick Installation Guide
Part No. B31764-01
December 2006
Before you install Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (referred to throughout this guide as Oracle BI) in a production environment, or if there is an existing Oracle software installation on the computer, Oracle recommends reviewing the following books:
The primary audience for this guide include system administrators, network administrators, Application Server administrators, and developers.
The Oracle Business Intelligence Infrastructure Quick Installation Guide is not meant as a substitute for the Oracle Business Intelligence Infrastructure Installation and Configuration Guide. This Quick Install Guide is intended to show only the basics of Oracle Business Intelligence, for the following type of deployment:
Table 1 shows the contents of the Oracle Business Intelligence Infrastructure Quick Installation Guide:
This section describes pre-installation requirements for installation of Oracle Business Intelligence.
The Oracle Business Intelligence infrastructure consists of servers, programs, and tools used to build Oracle Business Intelligence applications.
The Oracle Business Intelligence product includes an installer program that can install the complete Oracle BI suite, or one or more Oracle BI product components. The Oracle BI infrastructure components are shown in Table 2. These components are installed using the Complete installation option.
For a list of all installation options and the components that they install, see the Oracle Business Intelligence Infrastructure Installation and Configuration Guide.
NOTE: For a complete description of supported hardware and operating systems versions, see the System Requirements and Supported Platforms for Oracle Business Intelligence, located on the Oracle Technology Network.
Before you install Oracle Business Intelligence, you must have the appropriate permissions for installing and configuring on your company system, as shown in Table 3.
| System Component | Permission Type |
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Windows |
Administrator for individual machine |
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Database |
DBMS Administrator |
Before you run the Oracle Business Intelligence installer, you must have completed the third-party software installations shown in Table 4.
The number of third-party components required to be installed or configured depends on the details of your particular deployment. Third-party software documentation is available from the third-party vendor (such as Java from Sun Microsystems and MDAC from Microsoft Corporation).
| Component Installation | Notes |
|---|---|
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The Sun release name was originally Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition 1.5.0 (J2SE Development Kit 1.5.0). The numbering system changed to 5.0 (J2SE 5.0). Both 1.5.0 and 5.0 refer to the same platform and products. |
Java SDK must be installed before you run the Oracle Business Intelligence installer, otherwise the installation cannot progress. If you do not have this software, follow the procedure shown in Section 2.3.1, "Installing the Java SDK Components" Java must be installed on the same machine on which you are installing Oracle Business Intelligence. You need this information during the installation. Make a note of the directory where Java is installed. For example, <Drive>:\Program Files\Java\j2sdk1.5.0_06 |
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Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) |
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http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp), for JDK 5.0 Update 9, click Download.
Before you install any Oracle BI Server components, you must have Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) installed. MDAC, which provides a complete ODBC stack, is considered a Windows system component and is included with many applications. To check to see that it is installed on your particular computer, use the following procedure.
These files are generally located in the C:\Program Files\Common Files\System\OLE DB folder.
If you do not need to install MDAC, proceed to the topic Section 3.1, "Running the Oracle BI Installer Under Windows". If you do need to install Microsoft Data Access Components, use the following procedure.
NOTE: For the appropriate version to use, see System Requirements and Supported Platforms for Oracle Business Intelligence on Oracle Technology Network.
In the Search box, type the words MDAC download and press Enter.
Under Windows 2003 and Windows XP operating systems, DEP (Data Execution Prevention) is turned on by default for all Windows programs and services. Before you run the Oracle BI Infrastructure installer, turn off the Data Execution Prevention setting for all programs and set for only essential Windows programs and services in order for certain Oracle Business Intelligence components to install successfully. This procedure is necessary for the installer to complete. When running the Oracle BI Installer on Windows 2003 or Windows XP operating systems, the installer will direct you to disable DEP.
After the installation has completed, the Data Execution Prevention function can be changed back to the original setting.
The following steps guide you through the installer.
The installation program window appears and prompts you through each screen. Provide the requested input for each screen.
To continue to the next screen, click Next. To return to a previous screen, click Back.
Accept the default drive (C:\) and directories, or click Browse to change them.
Select Basic.
Select the default component setup type, Complete.
This option installs the components shown in Table 2, "Oracle BI Infrastructure Components and Installation Options".
The application server instance under which Oracle BI Presentation Services runs. The choices given are:
(Installed during this installation)
(Must be installed on this machine before running this installer.)
NOTE: If you do not have Microsoft IIS installed, then this screen will not appear.
Select Oracle Containers for J2EE (OC4J).
JAVA_HOME is the system variable assigned to the location of the Sun Java Development Kit, version 1.5.0 or higher, referred to in Section 2.3.
The Administrator password must be a minimum of 6 characters and include at least one digit.
Leave Cluster Account Information blank, because you are not running machines in a cluster for this installation.
Services Startup Type:
You can change the Windows Services Startup settings. The default settings are:
NOTE: The Services Startup Type set to Automatic means that the Oracle BI server services starts automatically when the computer is rebooted. Overall system performance may be affected by this.
The default is English.
To choose a different language, click the drop down box and select the desired language.
Summarizes the components to be installed (the list shows the same components as Table 2), and shows the installation location and size.
At the end of the installation, choose Accept to restart the computer, or choose to restart at a later time.
If you attempt to run Oracle BI without restarting your computer, several services may fail to work correctly.
If you did not restart the computer at the end of the installation process, you must restart the computer before trying to run the Oracle Business Intelligence software.
The Basic installation type uses Oracle Containers for J2EE (OC4J). The Java process in the OC4Jcomponent cannot be restarted automatically after you restart your computer. You must start the OC4J process before starting Oracle Business Intelligence.
For more information about starting and stopping OC4J, refer to the file Readme.txt, located in the directory <installation drive>:\OracleBI\oc4j_bi\.
To start Oracle Business Intelligence, in the Windows Start menu, select Programs > Oracle Business Intelligence > Presentation Services.
The initial configuration of Oracle Business Intelligence is made by the installer in accordance to your input during the installation process.
However, you must configure the Oracle BI Scheduler before running Oracle BI. Otherwise, the Scheduler service fails to start and the Delivers component does not function. See Section 4.2, "About Oracle BI Scheduler".
You can also configure the demonstration application deployed with the Basic installation. See Section 4.1, "Using the Demonstration Application".
The Basic installation type installs a demonstration application that includes a repository (paint.rpd), presentation catalog, and XML data source.
The paint.rpd file is located in the directory <installation drive>:\OracleBI\server\Repository. To administer or configure the repository, use the following procedure.
NOTE: The repository paint.rpd user passwords expire 90 days from the date the Oracle BI Server installation was performed. The Administrator user password does not expire.
NOTE: Click Menu > Help > Help Topics to call up the Server Administration Guide, which has a complete description of the Administration Tool features and the repository.
The Scheduler components are:
The Scheduler uses a single commercial back-end database to store pertinent information about a job, its instances, and its parameters. The Scheduler works with all the supported databases for Oracle Business Intelligence. For the complete list of supported databases, see System Requirements and Supported Platforms.
Table 5 gives brief descriptions of the database tables used by Oracle Business Intelligence Scheduler. The scripts are located in <installation drive>:\OracleBI\server\Schema.
In addition to the database tables shown in Table 5, the scripts create the
S_NQ_ACCT table. The S_NQ_ACCT table is used by the usage tracking feature. If usage tracking is enabled in NQSConfig.INI, the Oracle BI Server generates usage tracking data files. A sample JavaScript is provided, which extracts information from the Usage Tracking files and loads them to a table in the relational database. The S_NQ_ACCT table stores all the information regarding Accounting Data. (For information about usage tracking, see Oracle Business Intelligence Server Administration Guide.)
The following procedures configure Oracle BI Scheduler for a stand-alone deployment of Oracle Business Intelligence.
You can either create a new database in which to store the tables or use an existing database.
Use the appropriate procedure for your back-end database, as shown in Section 4.4, "Creating an Oracle BI Scheduler Database and Tables for Specific Databases".
The following procedures describe how to create a database and tables for specific relational databases:
For usage statistics, create the table in SAACCT.Oracle.sql.
For usage statistics, create the table in SAACCT.MSSQL.sql.
The Data Source Name used in the Job Manager Scheduler configuration must match the Oracle database service alias created in Step 3 of Section 4.4, "Creating an Oracle BI Scheduler Database and Tables for Specific Databases".
To configure the database using Job Manager, use the following procedure.
(Select Programs > Oracle Business Intelligence > Job Manager.)
Select the appropriate Database Type from the drop down list (for example, Oracle 10g R1).
The Call Interface is updated automatically according to the Database Type chosen.
(Settings > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services)
The Data Source Name used in the Job Manager Scheduler configuration must match an existing ODBC Data Source Name (DSN) for the SQL Server S_NQ_SCHED database used in Section 4.4.2, "Creating a Scheduler Database and Tables for SQL Server".
If you do not have a System DSN entry, create a new one as shown in the following procedure.
(Select Settings > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Data Sources (ODBC).)
To update Scheduler to use the SQL Server S_NQ_SCHED database, use the following procedure.
(Select Programs > Oracle Business Intelligence > Job Manager.)
Select the appropriate Database Type from the drop down list (for example, SQL Server 7.0/2000).
The Call Interface is updated automatically according to the Database Type chosen.
For details of configuring BI Publisher, see the Appendices of the Oracle Business Intelligence Infrastructure Installation and Configuration Guide.
For an overview, suggestions, links, and tutorials on using this software, access the web page Welcome to Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (10.1.3.2), available on the drive on which you installed the software:
<installation drive>:\\OracleBI\index_bi_ee.html
For additional configuration details, or for configuration beyond the scope of this quick installation, see the companion documentation for this release:
For more information, see these Oracle resources:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/bi_ee.html
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