Decide How You Want to Implement Report Manager

The information in this section is used to determine which Report Manager implementation is appropriate for your organization before doing any installations.

Oracle Communications Report Manager is an optional application within Oracle Communications Session Delivery Manager that is used to centrally manage the following database functions, display functions, and applications:

• Use Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher (Oracle BI Publisher) application to render reports.
• Report Manager uses Oracle BI Publisher to render reports based on metrics collected from Historical Data Recording (HDR). HDR is a group of management features used to configure a managed device in order to collect statistics about system operation and function. The Report Manager collects raw data in CSV files from designated devices to aggregate it into time granularities (raw, hourly, daily, monthly, yearly), and make this data available for running reports.

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With the introduction of Oracle Communications Session Delivery Manager, Release 7.5, both the Oracle Communications Session Delivery Manager and Oracle database software, must be installed together on the same server if you are using Report Manager. The Oracle Communications Session Delivery Manager Data Warehouse (OSCDMDW) database software that is used to store collected data from devices that are managed by Oracle Communications Session Delivery Manager.

You can do a simple or Oracle BI Publisher cluster installation for Report Manager:

• Simple installation—A local standalone installation, local cluster installation, or a remote standalone installation. See the Simple Implementation of Report Manager section for more information.
• Oracle BI Publisher Cluster Installation and scale-out installation—A remote cluster installation, in which multiple instances of Oracle BI Publisher and Oracle Communications Session Delivery Manager are installed on separate servers. See the Oracle BI Publisher Cluster Implementation of Report Manager section for more information.

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  You can select this installation option (Enterprise Install) later when you are installing Oracle BI Publisher and creating an Oracle BI Publisher cluster. See the Create a BI Publisher Cluster section in this document for more information.

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  In a remote cluster installation (Enterprise Install), the Oracle BI Publisher is not on the same server as the Oracle Communications Session Delivery Manager. Ensure that the Oracle database application is installed on one of the servers on which Oracle BI Publisher is installed and on both servers on which Oracle Communications Session Delivery Manager is installed.