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Contents
Title and Copyright Information
Preface
Audience
Documentation Accessibility
Related Documents
Conventions
1
Enterprise Deployment Overview
1.1
What Is an Enterprise Deployment?
1.2
Terminology
1.3
Benefits of Oracle Recommendations
1.3.1
Built-in Security
1.3.2
High Availability
1.4
Hardware Requirements
1.5
Enterprise Deployment Reference Topology
1.5.1
Oracle Identity Management
1.5.2
Web Tier
1.5.2.1
Load Balancer Requirements
1.5.3
Application Tier
1.5.4
Data Tier
1.5.5
What to Install
1.5.6
Unicast Requirement
2
Database and Environment Preconfiguration
2.1
Database Environment Preconfiguration
2.1.1
Setting Up the Database
2.1.1.1
Database Host Requirements
2.1.1.2
Supported Database Versions
2.1.1.3
Database Services
2.1.2
Loading the Oracle Business Intelligence Schemas in the Oracle RAC Database
2.1.3
Backing Up the Database
2.2
Network Environment Preconfiguration
2.2.1
Virtual Server Names
2.2.1.1
bi.mycompany.com
2.2.1.2
admin.mycompany.com
2.2.1.3
biinternal.mycompany.com
2.2.2
Load Balancers
2.2.3
IPs and Virtual IPs
2.2.3.1
Enabling Virtual IPs for the Managed Servers
2.2.4
Firewalls and Ports
2.3
Shared Storage and Recommended Directory Structure
2.3.1
Terminology for Directories and Directory Environment Variables
2.3.2
Recommended Locations for the Different Directories
2.3.3
Shared Storage Configuration
2.4
Clock Synchronization
3
Installing the Software
3.1
Software Installation Summary
3.2
Installing Oracle HTTP Server
3.2.1
Installing Oracle HTTP Server on WEBHOST1 and WEBHOST2
3.2.2
Backing Up the Installation
3.3
Installing Oracle Fusion Middleware
3.3.1
Installing Oracle WebLogic Server and Creating the Middleware Home
3.3.2
Installing Oracle Business Intelligence
3.3.3
Backing Up the Installation
4
Configuring the Web Tier
4.1
Configuring the Oracle Web Tier
4.2
Validating the Installation
4.3
Configuring Oracle HTTP Server with the Load Balancer
4.4
Configuring Virtual Hosts
5
Creating a Domain with the Administration Server and First Managed Server
5.1
Creating a Domain and the bi_server1 Managed Server on APPHOST1
5.2
Creating boot.properties for the Administration Server on APPHOST1
5.3
Starting the Administration Server on APPHOST1
5.4
Enabling Administration Server High Availability
5.4.1
Enabling ADMINVHN on APPHOST1
5.4.2
Create a Machine for the Administration Server
5.4.3
Enabling the Administration Server to Listen on the Virtual IP Address
5.4.4
Creating a Separate Domain Directory for the bi_server1 Managed Server
5.5
Validating the Administration Server
5.6
Setting the Listen Address for bi_server1 Managed Server
5.6.1
Updating the Oracle BI Publisher Scheduler Configuration
5.7
Disabling Host Name Verification for the bi_server1 Managed Server
5.8
Starting and Validating Oracle Business Intelligence on APPHOST1
5.8.1
Starting the bi_server1 Managed Server
5.8.2
Starting the Oracle Business Intelligence System Components
5.8.3
Validating Oracle Business Intelligence URLs
5.9
Configuring Oracle HTTP Server
5.9.1
Configuring Oracle HTTP Server for the Administration Server
5.9.2
Configuring Oracle HTTP Server for the bi_server
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Managed Servers
5.10
Registering Oracle HTTP Server with Oracle WebLogic Server
5.11
Setting the Frontend URL for the Administration Console
5.12
Validating Access Through Oracle HTTP Server
5.12.1
Validating the Administration Console and Fusion Middleware Control
5.12.2
Validating bi_cluster
5.13
Manually Failing Over the Administration Server to APPHOST2
5.13.1
Assumptions and Procedure
5.13.2
Validating Access to APPHOST2 Through Oracle HTTP Server
5.13.3
Failing the Administration Server Back to APPHOST1
5.14
Backing Up the Installation
6
Scaling Out the Oracle Business Intelligence System
6.1
Scaling Out the BI System on APPHOST2
6.2
Scaling Out the System Components
6.3
Configuring Secondary Instances of Singleton System Components
6.4
Configuring the bi_server2 Managed Server
6.4.1
Setting the Listen Address for the bi_server2 Managed Server
6.4.2
Disabling Host Name Verification for the bi_server2 Managed Server
6.5
Performing Additional Configuration for Oracle Business Intelligence Availability
6.5.1
Additional Configuration Tasks for Oracle BI Enterprise Edition
6.5.1.1
Setting the Location of the Shared Oracle BI Repository
6.5.1.2
Setting the Location of the Shared Oracle BI Presentation Catalog
6.5.1.3
Setting the Location of the Global Cache
6.5.1.4
Setting the Scheduler Script Path and Default Script Path
6.5.2
Additional Configuration Tasks for Oracle Real-Time Decisions
6.5.2.1
Configuring Oracle Real-Time Decisions Clustering Properties
6.5.2.2
Configuring Oracle WebLogic Server JMS for Oracle Real-Time Decisions
6.5.3
Additional Configuration Tasks for Oracle BI Publisher
6.5.3.1
Setting the Location of the Shared Oracle BI Publisher Configuration Folder
6.5.3.2
Setting Scheduler Configuration Options
6.5.3.3
Configuring Integration with Oracle BI Presentation Services
6.5.3.4
Setting the Oracle BI EE Data Source
6.5.3.5
Configuring JMS for Oracle BI Publisher
6.5.3.6
Updating the Oracle BI Publisher Scheduler Configuration
6.5.4
Additional Configuration Tasks for Oracle BI Office
6.5.4.1
Configuring Oracle BI Office Properties
6.5.4.2
Validating Oracle BI Office Configuration
6.6
Configuring a Default Persistence Store for Transaction Recovery
6.7
Starting and Validating Oracle Business Intelligence on APPHOST2
6.7.1
Starting the bi_server2 Managed Server
6.7.2
Starting the Oracle Business Intelligence System Components
6.7.3
Validating Oracle Business Intelligence URLs
6.8
Validating Access Through Oracle HTTP Server
6.9
Setting the Frontend HTTP Host and Port
6.10
Configuring Node Manager for the Managed Servers
6.11
Configuring Server Migration for the Managed Servers
6.12
Backing Up the Installation
7
Setting Up Node Manager
7.1
About Setting Up Node Manager
7.2
Changing the Location of the Node Manager Log
7.3
Enabling Host Name Verification Certificates for Node Manager
7.3.1
Generating Self-Signed Certificates Using the utils.CertGen Utility
7.3.2
Creating an Identity Keystore Using the utils.ImportPrivateKey Utility
7.3.3
Creating a Trust Keystore Using the Keytool Utility
7.3.4
Configuring Node Manager to Use the Custom Keystores
7.3.5
Configuring Managed Servers to Use the Custom Keystores
7.3.6
Changing the Host Name Verification Setting for the Managed Servers
7.4
Starting Node Manager
8
Configuring Server Migration
8.1
Setting Up a User and Tablespace for the Server Migration Leasing Table
8.2
Creating a Multi-Data Source Using the Administration Console
8.3
Enabling Host Name Verification Certificates
8.4
Editing the Node Manager Properties File
8.5
Setting Environment and Superuser Privileges for the wlsifconfig.sh Script
8.6
Configuring Server Migration Targets
8.7
Configuring Oracle BI Office
8.8
Testing the Server Migration
9
Integrating with Oracle Identity Management
9.1
Configuring the Credential and Policy Store
9.1.1
Overview of Credential and Policy Store Configuration
9.1.2
Configuring the Credential Store
9.1.3
Configuring the Policy Store
9.1.4
Reassociating Credentials and Policies
9.1.5
Regenerating User GUIDs After Identity Store Reassociation
9.1.5.1
About User GUIDs
9.1.5.2
About GUID Regeneration
9.1.5.3
Regenerating User GUIDs
9.2
Oracle Access Manager Integration
9.2.1
About Oracle Access Manager Integration
9.2.2
Using the Oracle Access Manager Configuration Tool
9.2.2.1
About the Oracle Access Manager Configuration Tool
9.2.2.2
Collecting Information for the Oracle Access Manager Configuration Tool
9.2.2.3
Running the Oracle Access Manager Configuration Tool
9.2.2.4
Verifying Successful Creation of the Policy Domain and AccessGate
9.2.3
Updating the Host Identifier
9.2.4
Updating the WebGate Profile
9.2.5
Installing and Configuring WebGate
9.2.6
Setting Up WebLogic Authenticators
9.2.6.1
Backing Up Configuration Files
9.2.6.2
Configuring the Identity Store to Use LDAP
9.2.6.3
Setting Up the Oracle Access Manager ID Asserter
9.2.6.4
Setting the Order of Providers
9.2.7
Moving the WebLogic Administrator to LDAP
9.2.8
Configuring Applications
9.2.8.1
Enabling SSO/Oracle Access Manager for Oracle Business Intelligence
9.2.8.2
Enabling SSO/Oracle Access Manager for Oracle BI Publisher
10
Managing Enterprise Deployments
10.1
Starting and Stopping Oracle Business Intelligence
10.1.1
Starting and Stopping Oracle Business Intelligence Managed Servers
10.1.2
Starting and Stopping Oracle Business Intelligence System Components
10.2
Monitoring Enterprise Deployments
10.3
Scaling Enterprise Deployments
10.3.1
Scaling Up the Oracle Business Intelligence Topology
10.3.2
Scaling Out the Oracle Business Intelligence Topology
10.3.2.1
Scale-out Procedure for Oracle Business Intelligence
10.4
Performing Backups and Recoveries
10.5
Patching Enterprise Deployments
10.6
Troubleshooting
10.6.1
Page Not Found When Accessing BI Applications Through Load Balancer
10.6.2
Administration Server Fails to Start After a Manual Failover
10.6.3
Error While Activating Changes in Administration Console
10.6.4
bi_server Managed Server Not Failed Over After Server Migration
10.6.5
bi_server Managed Server Not Reachable From Browser After Server Migration
10.6.6
OAM Configuration Tool Does Not Remove URLs
10.6.7
Users Redirected to Login Screen After Activating Changes
10.6.8
Users Redirected to Home Page After Activating Changes
10.6.9
Configured JOC Port Already in Use
10.6.10
Out-of-Memory Issues on Managed Servers
10.7
Other Recommendations
10.7.1
Preventing Timeouts for SQLNet Connections
10.7.2
Auditing
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