Oracle® Business Intelligence Discoverer Configuration Guide 10G Release 2 (10.1.2.1) for Microsoft Windows and Solaris Operating System (SPARC) B13918-03
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Oracle® Business Intelligence Discoverer Configuration Guide 10g Release 2 (10.1.2.1) for Microsoft Windows and Solaris Operating System (SPARC) B13918-03 July 2005 Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer Configuration Guide, 10g Release 2 (10.1.2.1) for Microsoft Windows and Solaris Operating System (SPARC) B13918-03 Copyright © 1999, 2005 Oracle. All rights reserved. The Programs (which include both the software and documentation) contain proprietary information; they are provided under a license agreement containing restrictions on use and disclosure and are also protected by copyright, patent, and other intellectual and industrial property laws. Reverse engineering, disassembly, or decompilation of the Programs, except to the extent required to obtain interoperability with other independently created software or as specified by law, is prohibited. The information contained in this document is subject to change without notice. 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Contents Preface ............................................................................................................................................................... xiii Intended Audience.................................................................................................................................... xiii Documentation Accessibility................................................................................................................... xiii OracleBI Discoverer Navigation and Accessibility .............................................................................. xiv Related Documents ................................................................................................................................... xiv Conventions ............................................................................................................................................... xiv JGoodies License Agreement................................................................................................................... xv 1 Introducing OracleBI Discoverer 1.1 What is OracleBI Discoverer?.................................................................................................... 1-1 1.2 What are the new configuration features in OracleBI Discoverer 10g Release 2 (10.1.2) . 1-4 1.2.1 User preference changes..................................................................................................... 1-4 1.2.2 URL parameter changes...................................................................................................... 1-4 1.2.3 Discoverer Plus look and feel............................................................................................. 1-5 1.2.4 Discoverer Viewer customization ..................................................................................... 1-5 1.3 About configuring OracleBI Discoverer.................................................................................. 1-5 1.4 How to confirm an OracleBI Discoverer installation............................................................. 1-6 1.5 About connecting to Discoverer ............................................................................................... 1-8 1.6 What is the OracleBI Discoverer architecture? ....................................................................... 1-8 1.7 About the Discoverer client tier................................................................................................ 1-9 1.7.1 About the Discoverer client tier and Discoverer Plus ................................................. 1-10 1.7.2 About the Discoverer client tier and Discoverer Viewer............................................ 1-10 1.8 About the Discoverer Services tier ........................................................................................ 1-10 1.8.1 About the Discoverer J2EE components ....................................................................... 1-11 1.8.2 About the Discoverer CORBA components (Discoverer Service)............................. 1-12 1.9 About the Discoverer database tier....................................................................................... 1-12 1.10 How does OracleBI Discoverer work?.................................................................................. 1-13 1.10.1 How does Discoverer Plus Relational work? ............................................................... 1-13 1.10.2 How does Discoverer Plus OLAP work? ...................................................................... 1-14 1.10.3 How does Discoverer Viewer work? ............................................................................. 1-15 2 About Oracle Business Intelligence installations and OracleAS Infrastructures 2.1 About installing Oracle Business Intelligence ........................................................................ 2-1 iii 2.1.1 About Business Intelligence and Forms installations and OracleBI standalone installations associated with an OracleAS Infrastructure............................................. 2-3 2.1.2 About OracleBI standalone installations.......................................................................... 2-4 2.2 How to associate an OracleBI installation with an OracleAS Infrastructure ..................... 2-5 2.3 How to upgrade a 9.0.4 metadata repository to work with Discoverer Portlet Provider Version 10.1.2 and Oracle Portal 10.1.2 ................................................................... 2-7 2.3.1 How to upgrade just the OracleBI Discoverer part of a Metadata Repository........... 2-8 3 Starting OracleBI Discoverer 3.1 General information about starting OracleBI Discoverer ..................................................... 3-2 3.2 What are the supported Web browser versions for Discoverer?......................................... 3-3 3.3 About restricting how users can start Discoverer.................................................................. 3-3 3.4 What are the memory requirements and privileges required to start Discoverer Plus and Discoverer Viewer?............................................................................................................. 3-4 3.5 About running Discoverer over HTTPS .................................................................................. 3-4 3.5.1 How to install a security certificate on a Discoverer Plus client machine................... 3-5 3.5.2 How to import certificate details into the JInitiator certificate store............................ 3-9 3.5.3 How to import certificate details into the Java Plug-in certificate store................... 3-10 3.6 About running Discoverer Plus over HTTP for the first time on a client machine........ 3-11 3.7 How to start Discoverer Plus ................................................................................................