Configuring and Deploying EPM System

Subtopics

SSL Terminated at Offloader

If you plan to terminate SSL communication at the offloader, configure and deploy EPM System components without selecting SSL settings. You must configure SSL communication between the browser and the offloader (to the virtual offloader alias) separately using the documentation of your offloader vendor.

See the following information sources to deploy EPM System components:

  • Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management System Installation Start Here

  • Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management System Installation and Configuration Guide

Note:

You must enter or select information in all the configuration screens that EPM System Configurator displays. The following procedure discusses the screens where you must specify settings to support this topology.

  To deploy EPM System components:

  1. Launch EPM System Configurator.

  2. Select deployment tasks for all the EPM System components that you plan to deploy on this machine.

  3. Click Next.

  4. Click Next until the Application Server Deployment: Oracle WebLogic screen opens.

    Application Server Deployment: Oracle WebLogic screen lists the components that you selected to deploy and the default WebLogic Server deployment settings. To support an SSL offloader deployment, you must update the port and host that the components use for server-to-server (internal) communication.

  5. Perform this step for each component listed in Application Server Deployment: Oracle WebLogic screen.

    1. From Advanced, select Set up.

      The Advanced Setup screen where you create logical web addresses to support SSL offloader deployment

    2. Modify the information in the following fields. See “Advanced Setup” in the Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management System Installation and Configuration Guide for a description of the fields in this screen.

      Table 12. Fields to Modify to Define Logical Addresses

      FieldDescription
      HostThe name of Oracle HTTP Server host for server-to-server communication, for example, myWebServer.mycompany.com.
      PortThe web server port, for example, 19000, that you plan to use for server-to-server communication.

    3. Click OK.

  6. Repeat step 5 to create the logical address for each component listed in the screen.

  7. Click Next until the deployment process is complete.

Optional: Configuring Oracle HTTP Server Communication with WebLogic Server

Complete this procedure if you are terminating SSL at the offloader.

  To configure Oracle HTTP Server communication with WebLogic Server:

  1. Using a text editor, open EPM_ORACLE_INSTANCE/httpConfig/ohs/config/OHS/ohs_component/mod_wl_ohs.conf.

  2. Ensure that the WLProxySSL directive is enabled, for example:

    WLProxySSL ON

  3. Save and close mod_wl_ohs.conf.

  4. Restart Oracle HTTP Server.

Full SSL with Offloader

In this scenario, you can SSL-enable any communication channel beyond the offloader. For example, you can SSL-enable downstream communication between all EPM System components such as Oracle HTTP Server, WebLogic Server, IIS server, and database server. See Full SSL Deployment of EPM System for a detailed discussion of the steps involved.