Before You Start

In this section:

• Identify a Single Account to Perform All Application Tier Installation Tasks
  
• Get a CA Certificate for HTTPS
  
• Shared Directory
  
• Permanent IP Address
  

Identify a Single Account to Perform All Application Tier Installation Tasks

1. Install all application tier components using the same user account.

   The account must have administrator privileges on the server computer.

Get a CA Certificate for HTTPS

To support HTTPS:

1. Request a certificate from a Certificate Authority (CA) vendor, such as Thawte, Entrust, or Verisign.
   1. Generate an encoded plain text certificate request file. See Create an Oracle Wallet and Generate a Certificate Request for more information.
   2. Email the certificate request file to the CA vendor.

      The vendor will sign the file, and send you a Trusted Certificate and a User Certificate. Allow some time for the certificates to be issued.

2. Import the certificate into the Oracle Wallet for the Oracle Application Server.

Note:

If your intention is to install an environment that will never be taken into production, you can skip this step and create a self-signed demo certificate for testing purposes; see Enable SSL Between a Browser and Oracle HTTP Server With Self Signing.

Shared Directory

If you have multiple Oracle Clinical Forms and/or Reports Server computers:

1. Select a shared directory to be accessible from all servers for storing report output and logs.
2. Map the shared directory as a network drive of same name in all the servers.

Permanent IP Address

1. Make sure every computer on which either the Oracle Clinical Forms or Reports Server is installed has a permanent IP address.