Contents

Title and Copyright Information

Preface

• Audience
• Documentation Accessibility
• Related Documents
• Conventions

1 About the Oracle Business Intelligence Installation

• 1.1 Introduction to Installing a Production Environment
• 1.2 Using the Standard Installation Topology as a Starting Point
  • 1.2.1 About the Business Intelligence Standard Installation Topology
  • 1.2.2 About Elements in the Standard Installation Topology Illustration
• 1.3 Using This Document to Extend an Existing Domain

2 Preparing to Install and Configure Oracle Business Intelligence

• 2.1 Roadmap for Installing and Configuring a Standard Installation Topology
• 2.2 Roadmap for Verifying Your System Environment
  • 2.2.1 Verifying Certification, System, and Interoperability Requirements
  • 2.2.2 Selecting an Installation User
    • 2.2.2.1 About User Permissions
    • 2.2.2.2 About Non-Default User Permissions on UNIX Operating Systems
    • 2.2.2.3 Verifying that the Installation User has Administrator Privileges on Windows Operating Systems
  • 2.2.3 About the Directories for Installation and Configuration
    • 2.2.3.1 About the Recommended Directory Structure
    • 2.2.3.2 About the Oracle Home Directory
    • 2.2.3.3 About the Domain Home Directory
    • 2.2.3.4 About the Application Home Directory
    • 2.2.3.5 Installing Multiple Products in the Same Domain
    • 2.2.3.6 Preparing for Shared Storage
  • 2.2.4 About JDK Requirements for an Oracle Fusion Middleware Installation
  • 2.2.5 About Database Requirements for an Oracle Fusion Middleware Installation
• 2.3 Obtaining the Product Distribution
• 2.4 About Product Distributions
• 2.5 Verifying Whether EndPoint URLs are Resolving to a Fully Qualified Domain Name

3 Installing the Oracle Business Intelligence Software

• 3.1 Verifying the Installation Checklist
• 3.2 Starting the Installation Program
• 3.3 Navigating the Installation Screens
• 3.4 Verifying the Installation
  • 3.4.1 Reviewing the Installation Log Files
  • 3.4.2 Checking the Directory Structure
  • 3.4.3 Viewing the Contents of the Oracle Home
• 3.5 Checking the Directory Structure

4 Configuring Oracle Business Intelligence

• 4.1 About the Oracle Business Intelligence Configuration Assistant
• 4.2 Configuration Assistant Prerequisites
• 4.3 Prerequisite for Configuring Oracle BI EE on AIX
• 4.4 Creating the Database Schemas
  • 4.4.1 Installing and Configuring a Certified Database
  • 4.4.2 Starting the Repository Creation Utility
  • 4.4.3 Navigating the Repository Creation Utility Screens to Create Schemas
    • 4.4.3.1 Introducing the RCU
    • 4.4.3.2 Selecting a Method of Schema Creation
    • 4.4.3.3 Providing Database Connection Details
    • 4.4.3.4 Specifying Schema Passwords
    • 4.4.3.5 Completing Schema Creation
• 4.5 Configuring the BI Domain with the Configuration Assistant

5 Next Steps After Configuring the Domain

• 5.1 Performing Basic Administrative Tasks
• 5.2 Performing Additional Domain Configuration Tasks
• 5.3 Preparing Your Environment for High Availability
• 5.4 Configuring Visual Analyzer

6 Uninstalling or Reinstalling Oracle Business Intelligence

• 6.1 Removing Your Database Schemas
• 6.2 Uninstalling the Software
  • 6.2.1 Starting the Uninstall Wizard
  • 6.2.2 Selecting the Product to Uninstall
  • 6.2.3 Navigating the Uninstall Wizard Screens
• 6.3 Removing the Oracle Home Directory Manually
• 6.4 Removing the Program Shortcuts on Windows Operating Systems
• 6.5 Removing the Domain and Application Data
• 6.6 Reinstalling the Software

7 Installing R and Oracle R Enterprise for External Logical SQL Functions

• 7.1 Installing R and R Packages
  • 7.1.1 Before You Begin the Installation
  • 7.1.2 Installing R and R Packages on Linux Platforms
  • 7.1.3 Installing R and R Packages on Windows
• 7.2 Installing Oracle R Enterprise and Required R Packages on the Oracle Database
  • 7.2.1 Before You Begin the Installation
  • 7.2.2 Installing Oracle R Enterprise and R Packages
  • 7.2.3 Configuring Oracle R Enterprise to Work with Oracle BI EE

A Troubleshooting the Installation of Oracle BI

• A.1 Starting the BI Instance
• A.2 Troubleshooting ImportMeFirst Error
• A.3 Installing Oracle BI with Oracle Database Release 12.2.0.1.0

B Updating the JDK After Installing and Configuring an Oracle Fusion Middleware Product

• B.1 About Updating the JDK Location After Installing an Oracle Fusion Middleware Product
  • B.1.1 Updating the JDK Location in an Existing Oracle Home
  • B.1.2 Updating the JDK Location in an Existing Domain Home