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About the DAC Process Life Cycle

The DAC is used by different user groups to design, execute, monitor, and diagnose data warehouse applications. These phases together make up the DAC process life cycle, as shown in Figure 3.

Figure 3. DAC Process Life Cycle

The phases of the process and the actions associated with them are as follows:

Setup (Data warehouse developer)

Set up database connections
Set up application and database servers
Set up email recipients

Design (Data warehouse developer)

Design data warehouse applications
Define application objects

Execute (Data warehouse/ETL administrator)

Define scheduling parameters to execute data warehouse applications
Deploy data warehouse applications
Access run-time controls to restart or stop currently running schedules

Monitor (Data warehouse/ETL administrator)

Monitor run-time execution of data warehouse applications
Monitor users, DAC repository, and application maintenance jobs

Diagnose (Data warehouse/ETL administrator)

View the schedule diagnostics at run time or offline through log files
Run Exception Report execution plans

Siebel Data Warehouse Installation and Administration Guide
Published: 11 March 2004