Performing Silent Configurations

Silent configurations automate the configuration process so that you can configure Oracle Enterprise Performance Management System products on multiple computers without manually specifying configuration settings on each machine.

To enable silent configurations, record your configuration settings in a response file. You can then run a silent configuration from the command line, using the configuration options that were saved in the response file.

Note:

If you are performing a silent configuration using Remote Desktop, run it using an admin console session. (Launch Remote Desktop using mstsc /admin).

To record configuration settings and run a silent configuration:

1. Navigate to the directory that contains EPM System Configurator. By default, the directory is /common/config/version_number.
2. From a command line prompt, enter configtool.bat –record filename or ./configtool.sh –record filename, where filename includes an absolute path or file name.

   The file is saved in XML format, but you need not save the file with a .xml extension.

   EPM System Configurator launches.

   If you do not specify a file name, EPM System Configurator creates the file for you: /common/config/version_number/configResponse.xml.

3. Proceed through the EPM System Configurator, specifying the options that you want to record.

   Note:

   When you are recording silent configurations, you can proceed through EPM System Configurator only one time. (You cannot select go back to the Product Selection page to continue with more configuration tasks.) If you return to the Task Selection page, the response file is rerecorded.

   Configuration options are recorded in the response file, which is in XML format. Passwords are saved in encrypted format in the response file.

   You are now ready to configure products in silent mode.

4. Copy the response file to the machine on which you configure products. You can also copy the file to a network drive that is accessible from the machines you want to configure.
5. From the command line, enter a command:

   configtool.bat -silent filename or ./configtool.sh -silent filename.

   The configuration runs in the background.

You can also record configuration settings from within EPM System Configurator. To record configuration settings, during configuration, on the Configuration Confirmation page, click or select Save, browse to a location, specify a file name, and click or select Save. The file is saved in the same format as for silent configurations.

Silent response files are not compatible between earlier releases and Release 11.2. If you created silent response files for use with any earlier release of EPM System, you must re-create them for use with EPM System Release 11.2.

You can modify the response file later to change configuration options.

You can use the same silent response file in different environments even when each environment has a different set of passwords for the database, WebLogic, and the Oracle Hyperion Shared Services Admin user. For security reasons, in the generated silent file, password values are stored in encrypted format but EPM System Configurator also supports unencrypted format. Oracle recommends that you change the password properties for Database, WebLogic, and Shared Services in the silent file to the following format:

Database Password
<property name="password" encrypt="true">clearTextPasword</property>

Weblogic Admin Password in applicationServerDeployment section
<property name="adminUser">epm_admin</property>
<property name="adminPassword" encrypt="true">clearTextPasword</property>

Shared Services Admin Password in bean name="customConfiguration" for Foundation 
<property name="adminUserName">admin</property>
<property name="adminPassword" encrypt="true">clearTextPasword</property>

Copy a version of the file for each environment and replace clearTextPassword with the appropriate password for that environment. After executing the silent file for each environment, for security reasons, if the file is writable by EPM System Configurator, the password is stored in the file in an encrypted format.