1 About the Oracle Business Intelligence Installation
- Introduction to Installing a Production Environment
This guide describes how to use Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) distribution to install and configure a standard installation topology as a starting point for a production environment. - Using the Standard Installation Topology as a Starting Point
The standard installation topology is a flexible topology that you can use as a starting point in production environments. - Using This Document to Extend an Existing Domain
The procedures in this guide describe how to create a new domain. The assumption is that no other Oracle Fusion Middleware products are installed on your system.
1.1 Introduction to Installing a Production Environment
This guide describes how to use Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) distribution to install and configure a standard installation topology as a starting point for a production environment.
To install BI in a production environment, Oracle recommends that you download, install, and configure the BI environment on a single host, by following the instructions given in this guide.
For more information about scaling out your deployment to multiple Managed Servers and multiple hosts such as in a typical production environment, see Understanding the Business Intelligence Enterprise Deployment Topology in Oracle Fusion Middleware Enterprise Deployment Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence.
1.2 Using the Standard Installation Topology as a Starting Point
The standard installation topology is a flexible topology that you can use as a starting point in production environments.
The information in this guide helps you to create a standard installation topology for Oracle Business Intelligence. If appropriate and required, you can later extend the standard installation topology to create a secure and highly available production environment (see Next Steps After Configuring the Domain).
The standard installation topology represents a sample topology for this product. It is not the only topology this product supports. For more information, see About the Standard Installation Topology in Oracle Fusion Middleware Planning an Installation of Oracle Fusion Middleware.
- About the Business Intelligence Standard Installation Topology
This topology represents a standard WebLogic Server domain that contains an Administration Server and a cluster containing two Managed Servers. - About Elements in the Standard Installation Topology Illustration
The standard installation topology typically includes common elements.
1.2.1 About the Business Intelligence Standard Installation Topology
This topology represents a standard WebLogic Server domain that contains an Administration Server and a cluster containing two Managed Servers.
The following figure shows the standard installation topology for Business Intelligence.
See Table 1-1 for information on elements of this topology.
Figure 1-1 Business Intelligence Standard Installation Topology
Description of "Figure 1-1 Business Intelligence Standard Installation Topology"
1.2.2 About Elements in the Standard Installation Topology Illustration
The standard installation topology typically includes common elements.
The following table describes all elements of the topology illustration:
Table 1-1 Description of Elements in Standard Installation Topologies
| Element | Description and Links to Related Documentation |
|---|---|
| APPHOST | A standard term used in Oracle documentation to refer to the machine that hosts the application tier. |
| DBHOST | A standard term used in Oracle documentation to refer to the machine that hosts the database. |
| WebLogic Domain | A logically related group of Java components (in this case, the Administration Server, Managed Servers, and other related software components).
For more information, see What Is an Oracle WebLogic Server Domain? in Oracle Fusion Middleware Understanding Oracle Fusion Middleware. |
| Administration Server | Central control entity of a WebLogic domain. It maintains configuration objects for that domain and distributes configuration changes to Managed Servers.
For more information, see What Is the Administration Server? in Oracle Fusion Middleware Understanding Oracle Fusion Middleware. |
| Enterprise Manager | The Oracle Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control is a primary tool used to manage a domain.
For more information, see Oracle Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control in Oracle Fusion Middleware Understanding Oracle Fusion Middleware. |
| Cluster | A collection of multiple WebLogic Server instances running simultaneously and working together.
For more information, see Overview of Managed Servers and Managed Server Clusters in Oracle Fusion Middleware Understanding Oracle Fusion Middleware. |
| Machine | A logical representation of the computer that hosts one or more WebLogic Server instances (servers). Machines are also the logical glue between the Managed Servers and the Node Manager. In order to start or stop the Managed Servers using the Node Manager, associate the Managed Servers with a machine. |
| Managed Server | A host for your applications, application components, web services, and their associated resources.
For more information, see Overview of Managed Servers and Managed Server Clusters in Oracle Fusion Middleware Understanding Oracle Fusion Middleware. |
| Infrastructure | A collection of services that include the following:
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1.3 Using This Document to Extend an Existing Domain
The procedures in this guide describe how to create a new domain. The assumption is that no other Oracle Fusion Middleware products are installed on your system.
If you have installed and configured other Oracle Fusion Middleware products on your system (for example, Fusion Middleware Infrastructure, with a domain that is up and running), use the same instructions to extend your existing domain. If you choose extend an existing domain, read Installing Multiple Products in the Same Domain for detailed information.