3 Before You Begin

These topics provide an overview of the Oracle BI Administration tool, and explains other concepts that you must know before building a metadata repository.

This chapter contains the following topics:

• Open the Administration Tool

• Set Administration Tool Options

• Edit, Delete, and Reorder Objects in the Repository

• About Name Requirements for Repository Objects

• Change Icons for Repository Objects

• Sort Objects in the Administration Tool

• About the Oracle BI Server Command-Line Utilities

• About Options in NQSConfig.INI

• Download Repository Command

• Use Online and Offline Repository Modes

• Check the Consistency of a Repository or a Business Model