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
Parent topic: Install and Configure the Oracle Application Tier
Identify a Single Account to Perform All Application Tier Installation Tasks
Parent topic: Before You Start
Get a CA Certificate for HTTPS
To support HTTPS:
- Request a certificate from a Certificate Authority (CA) vendor, such as Thawte, Entrust, or Verisign.
- Generate an encoded plain text certificate request file. See Create an Oracle Wallet and Generate a Certificate Request for more information.
- 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.
- 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.Parent topic: Before You Start
Shared Directory
If you have multiple Oracle Clinical Forms and/or Reports Server computers:
- Select a shared directory to be accessible from all servers for storing report output and logs.
- Map the shared directory as a network drive of same name in all the servers.
Parent topic: Before You Start
Permanent IP Address
- Make sure every computer on which either the Oracle Clinical Forms or Reports Server is installed has a permanent IP address.
Parent topic: Before You Start