About Using Fusion Middleware Control to Manage Discoverer Middle-Tier Components
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Oracle® Fusion Middleware Configuration Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer 11g Release 1 (11.1.1) B40107-01 May 2009 This document describes how to configure and manage Discoverer components. Oracle Fusion Middleware Configuration Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer, 11g Release 1 (11.1.1) B40107-01 Copyright © 1999, 2009, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. This software and related documentation are provided under a license agreement containing restrictions on use and disclosure and are protected by intellectual property laws. Except as expressly permitted in your license agreement or allowed by law, you may not use, copy, reproduce, translate, broadcast, modify, license, transmit, distribute, exhibit, perform, publish, or display any part, in any form, or by any means. Reverse engineering, disassembly, or decompilation of this software, unless required by law for interoperability, is prohibited. 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Contents Preface ............................................................................................................................................................... xiii Intended Audience.................................................................................................................................... xiii Documentation Accessibility................................................................................................................... xiii Related Documents ................................................................................................................................... xiv Conventions ............................................................................................................................................... xiv JGoodies License Agreement................................................................................................................... xiv 1 Introducing Oracle BI Discoverer 1.1 What is Oracle BI Discoverer?................................................................................................... 1-1 1.2 What are the new features in Discoverer 11g Release 1 (11.1.1)?......................................... 1-4 1.3 About Oracle BI Discoverer installations ................................................................................ 1-4 1.3.1 About Discoverer installations that are associated with Oracle Internet Directory and schemas 1-5 1.3.2 About Discoverer standalone installations...................................................................... 1-6 1.3.3 About Discoverer installations and the Oracle11g Database ........................................ 1-7 1.4 About configuring Oracle BI Discoverer................................................................................. 1-7 1.5 How to confirm an Oracle BI Discoverer installation............................................................ 1-8 1.6 About connecting to Discoverer ............................................................................................ 1-10 1.7 What is the Oracle BI Discoverer architecture? ................................................................... 1-10 1.8 About the Discoverer client tier............................................................................................. 1-11 1.8.1 About the Discoverer client tier and Discoverer Plus ................................................. 1-11 1.8.2 About the Discoverer client tier and Discoverer Viewer............................................ 1-12 1.9 About the Discoverer middle tier.......................................................................................... 1-12 1.9.1 About the Discoverer Java EE applications .................................................................. 1-12 1.9.2 About the Discoverer CORBA components ................................................................. 1-13 1.10 About the Discoverer database tier....................................................................................... 1-14 1.11 How does Oracle BI Discoverer work?................................................................................. 1-15 1.11.1 How does Discoverer Plus Relational work? ............................................................... 1-15 1.11.2 How does Discoverer Plus OLAP work? ...................................................................... 1-16 1.11.3 How does Discoverer Viewer work? ............................................................................. 1-17 1.12 Oracle BI Discoverer Navigation........................................................................................... 1-17 2 Starting Oracle BI Discoverer 2.1 General information about starting Discoverer...................................................................... 2-2 2.2 Which Web browsers does Discoverer support? ................................................................... 2-3 iii 2.3 About restricting how users can start Discoverer.................................................................. 2-3 2.4 What are the storage requirements and privileges required to start Discoverer Plus and Discoverer Viewer? 2-3 2.5 About running Discoverer over HTTPS .................................................................................. 2-4 2.5.1 How to install a security certificate on a Discoverer Plus client machine................... 2-4 2.5.2 How to import certificate details into the Java Plug-in certificate store...................... 2-9 2.6 About running Discoverer Plus over HTTP for the first time on a client machine........ 2-10 2.7 How to start Discoverer Plus ................................................................................................. 2-11 2.8 How to start Discoverer Plus over HTTP in Microsoft Internet Explorer for the first time on a Windows client machine 2-12 2.9 How to start Discoverer Plus over HTTP in Netscape Navigator for the first time on a Windows client machine 2-15 2.10 How to start Discoverer Plus over HTTP in Netscape Navigator for the first time on a UNIX client machine 2-19 2.11 How to start Discoverer Viewer over HTTP ....................................................................... 2-21 2.12 How to modify the URL that starts Discoverer................................................................... 2-22 3 Managing Oracle BI Discoverer Connections 3.1 What is an Oracle BI Discoverer connection? ......................................................................... 3-1 3.1.1 About Discoverer private connections and Oracle Single Sign-On ............................. 3-2 3.2 What are the types of Discoverer connections?...................................................................... 3-2 3.3 About managing Discoverer connections ............................................................................... 3-4 3.4 About the Discoverer connections page.................................................................................. 3-4 3.5 About specifying whether Discoverer end users can create their own private connections... 3-5 3.6 How to create public connections............................................................................................. 3-5 3.7 How to delete public connections ............................................................................................ 3-7 3.8 How to specify