- Installation and Upgrade Instructions
- Configure database credentials (skip for upgrades from 9.0 or later)
- Store the Oracle Empirica Signal database and Oracle Empirica Topics credentials in Oracle Enterprise Manager
Store the Oracle Empirica Signal database and Oracle Empirica Topics credentials in Oracle Enterprise Manager
You create a map to store credentials associated with the Oracle Empirica Signal application.
You create keys in the map for:
- Oracle Empirica Signal database account credentials.
- The URL to connect to the Oracle Empirica Signal database account.
- Oracle Empirica Topics credentials, if you use the Topics service.
- LDAP credentials, if you use LDAP for authentication.
Note:
All text fields are case-sensitive.- In a Web browser, navigate to Oracle Enterprise Manager console, for example:
https://< server_name >:7002/em
- Log in using the Oracle WebLogic Server administrator credentials provided to you by the system administrator.
The Oracle Enterprise Manager console appears.
- Below the page title, expand the WebLogic Domain menu,
select Security, and then select
Credentials.
The Credentials page appears.
- If you are upgrading from Oracle Empirica Signal 8.0, click the
oracle.hsgbu.empirica
map, then click Delete..., and answer Yes to complete the deletion. - Create a map for the Oracle Empirica Signal application credentials:
- In the Credentials table, click Create
Map.
The Create Map dialog box appears.
- In the Map Name field, enter oracle.hsgbu.empiricasignal.
- If you set the
instance.name
property in thewebvdme.properties
file, append the instance name to the map name, for example,oracle.hsgbu.empiricasignal.dev
.For more information, see Set up the webvdme.properties file for Oracle Empirica Signal.
- Click OK.
- In the Credentials table, click Create
Map.
- Create a key for the Oracle Empirica Signal database account credentials:
- In the Credentials table, click Create Key.
- Fill in the fields:
- Select Map—Select the map you created in Step 6.
- Key—Enter DatabaseCredentials.
- Type—Select Password.
-
User Name, Password, Confirm Password—Enter the
credentials for the Oracle Empirica Signal database schema. The default user name is
webvdme
. - Description—Enter Signal schema user name and password.
- Click OK.
- Create a key for the URL to connect to the Oracle Empirica Signal database account:
- In the Credentials table, click Create Key.
- Fill in the fields:
- Select Map—Select the map you created in Step 6.
- Key—Enter DatabaseConnectURL.
- Type—Select Generic.
-
Credential—Select Enter as text,
and enter the database connection URL for the Oracle Empirica Signal database schema, for example:
jdbc:oracle:thin:@//<host>:<port>/<service_name>
-
<host>
is the IP address or fully qualified name of the database server, for example,198.168.0.1
. -
<port>
is the port number used by the database listener, for example,1521
. <service_name>
is the database service name, for example,ORCL
.
-
- Description—Enter Signal database connection URL.
- Click OK.
- If you use Oracle Empirica Topics, create a key for the Oracle Empirica Topics service credentials:
- In the Credentials table, click Create Key.
- Fill in the fields:
- Select Map—Select the map you created in Step 6.
- Key—Enter TopicsService.
- Type—Select Password.
-
User Name, Password, Confirm Password—Enter the
credentials for the Oracle Empirica Topics user you created on the Oracle WebLogic Server.
For more information, see Create the Oracle Empirica Topics user on the Oracle WebLogic Server.
- Description—Enter the user name and password for Oracle Empirica Signal to communicate with the Oracle Empirica Topics service.
- Click OK.
- If you use LDAP for authentication and do not use anonymous LDAP login, create a key for the LDAP credentials:
- In the Credentials table, click Create Key.
- Fill in the fields:
- Select Map—Select the map you created in Step 6.
- Key—Enter LdapCredentials.
- Type—Select Password.
- User Name, Password, Confirm Password—Enter the login information for the LDAP user.
- Description—Enter LDAP user name and password.
- Click OK.
- In the Credentials table, expand the map you created and review the keys.