Planning the Oracle Solaris Cluster HA for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Installation and Configuration

This section contains the information you need to plan your Oracle Solaris Cluster HA for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition installation and configuration.

Configuration Requirements

The configuration requirements in this section apply only to Oracle Solaris Cluster HA for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition.

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Caution - If your data service configuration does not conform to these requirements, the data service configuration might not be supported.

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• Because Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition software supports a wide range of locales, including the default of en-US.UTF-8, Solaris must be installed with the appropriate 8–bit locales.

• For a multi-master configuration, the following key configuration files must be kept consistent between the cluster nodes:

  • Oracle-BI-Home/OracleBI/server/Config/NQSConfig.INI

  • Oracle-BI-Home/OracleBI/server/Config/NQClusterConfig.INI

  • Oracle-BI-Home/OracleBIData/scheduler/config/instanceconfig.xml (for the Scheduler)

  • Oracle-BI-Home/OracleBIData/web/config/instanceconfig.xml (for the BI Presentation Services)

• For a multi-master configuration, the Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition software must be installed following the identical directory structure on each participating cluster node.

• For a multi-master configuration, the following sets of files must be shared among the participating cluster nodes:

  • Presentation catalog: Oracle-BI-Home/OracleBIData/web/catalog/catalog_name

  • Repository publishing directory: Oracle-BI-Home/OracleBIData/cluster_rep_pub_dir

  • Cluster-aware global cache: Oracle-BI-Home/OracleBIData/cluster_cache_dir

  • Scheduler scripts directory: Oracle-BI-Home/OracleBI/server/Scripts/Common