Configure Essbase Server

Specify the configuration information for Oracle Essbase Server, or click or select Next to accept the default settings. In general, Oracle recommends that you keep the default settings.

During configuration, EPM System Configurator automatically registers Essbase with Oracle Hyperion Shared Services and writes the Shared Services connection information to essbase.cfg (in ARBORPATH/bin). In addition, it specifies environment variables in a file used to launch Essbase Server.

The following table describes the configuration options for Essbase Server.

To see the order in which the configuration screen appears, see Configuring Essbase.

Table 9-6 Essbase Server Configuration

EPM System Configurator Fields	Description	Your Information
Enable Essbase	Selected by default. When Enable Essbase is selected, both EAS and Essbase are selected.
Enable APS	Selected by default. When Enable APS is selected, both EAS and Essbase are disabled.
Enable EAS	Selected by default. Note: EAS can only be configured on server where Essbase is configured.
Essbase Cluster Name	Specify a cluster name to create a cluster to provide active-passive Essbase failover support with write-back capabilities. You can include Essbase instances in a cluster.	When you configure the first instance of Essbase on the first machine, you define the cluster. See Configure Essbase Servers in a Failover Cluster for more details. The Essbase cluster name must be unique in a deployment environment. It cannot contain special characters or spaces. See "Configuring Active-Passive Essbase Clusters (Windows)" or "Configuring Active-Passive Essbase Clusters (Linux)" in the Oracle Enterprise Performance Management System Deployment Options Guide.
Agent Port Number	Accept the default port number on which the Essbase listens for client requests. If you change the default value, enter a port number that is not used by other programs. Select Active to enable the agent to listen on this port.
SSL Agent Port Number	Specify the SSL port on which Essbase listens for client requests. Select Active to enable the agent to listen on this port.
Start Port	Accept the default number or enter the first port number on which the Essbase Server listens for client requests. The port value is stored in essbase.cfg (in ARBORPATH/bin).
End Port	Enter the greatest port number that Essbase Server can use to connect. Essbase uses at least two ports for each application. For a large number of applications, you need a larger port range.
Full path to application location (ARBORPATH)	The location for applications. You can specify the path using universal naming convention (UNC) format.	Oracle recommends using UNC if you are configuring Essbase for high availability on Linux. If you are setting up an Essbase cluster on Linux, the application location must be a shared drive or a UNC path. When you configure the second machine in the cluster, the location must match the location you specified for the first machine in the cluster. In a failover configuration, Windows does not allow Universal or Uniform Naming Convention (UNC) paths for the Application Directory. If you are setting up an Essbase Failover environment on Windows, ensure that the shared Essbase application directory is mounted on the same drive (for example, Z:) on all the nodes and use it as the application directory in EPM configuration tool.

Note:

The configuration options for Essbase Server no longer includes Binding Host Name field.