Pre-Installation Tasks

Read and understand the summary of pre-installation steps that need to be done before installing Oracle® Communications Report Manager on your Oracle Communications Session Delivery Manager system.

WARNING:

In Oracle Communications Session Delivery Manager, Release 7.4 and later, the Oracle® Communications Report Manager product uses Oracle BI Publisher to manage, customize, schedule, print, and render reports to multiple formats. The Postgres reporting database and reporting tool used in prior releases cannot be imported when upgrading Report Manager.

1. If you are installing the Oracle Communications Session Delivery Manager product software for the first time or upgrading from a previous version, complete the instructions in the Oracle Communications Session Delivery Manager Installation Guide before installing Oracle® Communications Report Manager.
2. Check Linux server requirements before installing the Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) Publisher software.
3. Decide if you are going to implement Oracle® Communications Report Manager in a local or remote configuration.
4. Create an Oracle group and user account on your Linux system(s).
5. Select either X11 forwarding using secure shell (SSH) or the virtual network computing (VNC) to install the Oracle database and BI Publisher software with a graphical user interface (GUI) installer on your Linux system.