Configuring Email and Agents

You can use Fusion Middleware Control to configure common email settings that are used by agents.

Advanced configuration settings are described in Configuring and Managing Agents.

Using Fusion Middleware Control to Configure Oracle BI Scheduler Email Settings that Affect Agents

Configuring email settings that affect agents ensures users and other notification recipients receive messages appropriately.

Before you begin this procedure, ensure that you are familiar with the information in .

To use Fusion Middleware Control to configure Oracle BI Scheduler email settings that affect agents:

  1. Go to the Business Intelligence Overview page, as described in Displaying Oracle Business Intelligence Pages in Fusion Middleware Control.
  2. Display the Mail tab of the Configuration page as appropriate.
  3. Click Lock and Edit to enable changes to be made.
  4. Complete the elements using the descriptions in the help topic for the page. Click the Help for this page menu option to access the page-level help for the following options:
    • SMTP Server

    • Port

    • Display name of sender

      This option is used in the SMTP From field as a meaningful substitution for the sender's address. The default is Oracle Business Intelligence.

    • Email address of sender

      This option specifies the email address on the SMTP Server that is used as the sender's reply-to address for all mail sent from Oracle BI Scheduler. The initial value is defaultuser@defaultmailserver.com, which you must change to reflect a valid email address. Note that if you want to indicate that email recipients need not reply, add no_reply@mycompany.com or do_not_reply@mycompany.com to this field.

    • Username

    • Password

    • Confirm password

    • Number of retries upon failure

    • Maximum recipients

    • Addressing method To, Blind Copy Recipient (Bcc)

    • Connection Security

    • Specify CA certificate source

    • CA certificate directory

    • CA certificate file

    • SSL certificate verification depth

    • SSL cipher list

  5. Click Apply, then click Activate Changes.
  6. Return to the Business Intelligence Overview page and click Restart.

See Configuring and Managing Agents for information about advanced configuring settings for agents.

For information about corresponding configuration file elements, see Mapping User Interface Labels with Configuration File Elements.