Configure Common Settings

Specify settings for all products on all machines that have been identified in the Oracle Hyperion Shared Services Registry so far, or click or select Next to accept the default values.

The Configure Common Settings page appears once per Oracle Enterprise Performance Management System deployment.

If you configure on another machine and change any of these options, your new selections apply for all products and machines that you have not configured. If you reconfigure on a machine, the new settings apply to any products that you reconfigure and to future configurations.

The following table describes options for common settings configuration.

EPM System Configurator Fields	Description	Your Information
Create Windows Services for configured components (Windows only)	Select to configure each service as a Windows service that starts automatically when you start Windows.
Run Windows Services as non-local system account	Select to specify a non-local system account to configure Windows services, and then specify a user name and password. This user should be a member of the Administrators group. If you do not select this option, EPM System Configurator creates Windows services using the local system account. Before you start the services, change them to use the appropriate domain account
User name	Enter the user name for the user to launch the Windows services. If you leave this field blank, EPM System Configurator creates the services using the local system account.
Password	Enter the password for the user used to launch Windows services.
Use SSL for Web application server communications (requires manual configuration)	Depending on your SSL implementation, select to use SSL communication for all Java web applications. If this option is selected, URLs are in the form https. Note: Selecting this option does not enable secure communication for the Java web application server and does not create and load certificates into JREs and JDKs. See for more information. Optionally, you can deploy non SSL and reconfigure to use SSL. See the Oracle Enterprise Performance Management System Security Configuration Guide.
Mail Server Host	For products that integrate an e-mail feature, which uses standard Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) protocol, specify the outgoing mail (SMTP) server. To enable e-mail alerts, you must specify the SMTP server name.
Outgoing Port	Specify the mail server port number or accept the default value. If you are using SSL to communicate with the mail server, enter an SSL port.
Incoming Port	Specify the mail server port number or accept the default value. If you are using SSL to communicate with the mail server, enter an SSL port.
Administrator's Email Address	Specify the administrator's e-mail address to use for notifications.
Use SSL to communicate with mail server	Select to use SSL communication for all e-mail communication.
Use authentication to send email	Specify whether the mail server requires authentication, and then specify a user name and password.
User Name	Specify the user name for the SMTP server.
Password	Specify the password for the SMTP server.
LCM Export Import Location	Enter the location from which to export and import Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management System Lifecycle Management artifacts. If you have a clustered environment and plan to use Lifecycle Management to migrate artifacts, specify a shared drive location. The shared location must be accessible to all Oracle Hyperion Shared Services instances. When artifacts are exported using Lifecycle Management, the content is exported to a path on a shared disk; when imported, the content is read from the exported location on the shared disk. To enable data migration across distributed environments, specify a shared file system path defined using UNC syntax that is accessible from all the servers in the deployment. For example, to specify a shared drive location on Windows, enter \\sharedHost\sharedLocation. On Linux, enter: /sharedHost/sharedLocation. Note: If you are using Oracle Hyperion Financial Management in a distributed environment, configure the folder with Read/Write access for all the Financial Management Application Servers in the environment. After configuration, restart all instances of Shared Services. For each instance, start Shared Services as a service using the login of a domain user who has access to the shared disk/folder.
Enable SSL Offloading	Select this option if you are using an SSL Offloader. See for more information.
External URL Host	Specify the host name for the external URL.
External URL Port	Port number for the external URL.