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Process of Configuring Oracle Business Intelligence with Oracle's Siebel Web Extension (SWE)

Whenever you run Oracle Business Intelligence and Siebel Web Extension (SWE) on separate machines, you must perform additional configuration steps in order for action links and interactive charts to work. If, for example, you plan to run the SWE and Oracle Business Intelligence Presentation Services on different Web servers, you must use some kind of networking or load balancing mechanism to create a single logical domain (or virtual IP address) for the two machines.

CAUTION:  When Oracle BI Applications Server and Oracle BI Presentation Services are installed on different machines and load balancing software is used to create a single virtual IP address, the action links feature works only if you log onto the Siebel application using a virtual Web browser. Action links fail on a dedicated client if the SWE and Oracle BI Presentation Services servers are on separate machines. Either use a virtual Web browser, or install the Oracle BI Applications Web Server and Oracle BI Presentation Services on the same machine.

When one virtual IP address is created for two machines, the Web browser accesses one IP address and is still routed to different physical machines, based on the port accessed. From the browser, it appears that both servers are running on the same IP address.

You can use any of several physical methods to create a single logical domain, such as running SWE and Oracle Business Intelligence Presentation Services on a single machine if you are not load balancing the SWE, or using a router to do the mapping, or using load balancing software. Your company must determine the best mechanism to accomplish this routing given the topology being used.

Configuring Oracle Business Intelligence to work with Siebel Web Extension includes the following tasks:

• Creating a Virtual IP Address for the SWE and Oracle BI Presentation Services
• Testing the Virtual IP Configuration for Oracle Business Intelligence and the SWE