Contents

Title and Copyright Information

Preface

• Audience
• Documentation Accessibility
• Related Documents
• Conventions
• JGoodies License Agreement

1 Before You Install

• 1.1 About Oracle Business Intelligence
  • 1.1.1 Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer Plus
  • 1.1.2 Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer Viewer
  • 1.1.3 Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer Portlet Provider and Discoverer Portlets
  • 1.1.4 Reports Services
• 1.2 Oracle Home Considerations
  • 1.2.1 Oracle Home
  • 1.2.2 Multiple Oracle Business Intelligence Installations
  • 1.2.3 Oracle Business Intelligence Installation and Oracle Database
• 1.3 Preinstallation Tasks
  • 1.3.1 General Checklist
  • 1.3.2 Setting the Locale
  • 1.3.3 Using assistive technologies and Java Access Bridge during installation
  • 1.3.4 Component-Specific Preinstallation Tasks
    • 1.3.4.1 Preinstallation Tasks for Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer Plus
    • 1.3.4.2 Preinstallation Tasks for Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer Viewer
    • 1.3.4.3 Preinstallation Tasks for Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer Portlet Provider and Discoverer Portlets
    • 1.3.4.4 Preinstallation Tasks for Reports Services
  • 1.3.5 Information Required During Installation
• 1.4 About the Installer
  • 1.4.1 Directories Used by the Installer
    • 1.4.1.1 The Installer Inventory Directory
  • 1.4.2 Installer Prerequisite Checks

2 Oracle Business Intelligence Requirements

• 2.1 Hardware Requirements
  • 2.1.1 Minimum Hardware Requirements
• 2.2 Software Requirements
  • 2.2.1 System Requirements
• 2.3 Database Requirements
  • 2.3.1 Downloading the Most Recent OLAP Patch
  • 2.3.2 About Accepting the Default Setting for the OPTIMIZER_FEATURES_ENABLE Parameter
• 2.4 Browser Requirements
• 2.5 Other Software Requirements

3 Detailed Reports Services Requirements

• 3.1 About Specifying an SMTP Server for Reports Services
• 3.2 New Element for Specifying Port Numbers for CORBA Communication
• 3.3 Hardware Requirements
  • 3.3.1 Memory Requirements for Running Multiple Instances on the Same Computer
  • 3.3.2 Tips for Reducing Memory Usage
• 3.4 System Requirements
• 3.5 Windows System Files (wsf.exe) (Microsoft Windows)
• 3.6 Ports
  • 3.6.1 About Ephemeral Ports
  • 3.6.2 Checking If a Port Is in Use
  • 3.6.3 Using Default Port Numbers
  • 3.6.4 Using Custom Port Numbers (the Static Ports Feature)
    • 3.6.4.1 Format of the staticports.ini File
    • 3.6.4.2 Error Conditions that Cause the Installer to Use Default Ports Instead of Specified Ports
    • 3.6.4.3 Ports for Oracle HTTP Server and OracleAS Web Cache
• 3.7 Operating System User
• 3.8 Environment Variables
  • 3.8.1 Setting Environment Variables
  • 3.8.2 ORACLE_HOME and ORACLE_SID
  • 3.8.3 PATH and CLASSPATH
  • 3.8.4 TNS_ADMIN
  • 3.8.5 TEMP
• 3.9 The %WINDIR%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts File
• 3.10 Network Topics
  • 3.10.1 Installing on DHCP Computers
  • 3.10.2 Installing on Multihomed (Multi-IP) Computers
  • 3.10.3 Installing on Computers With Multiple Aliases
  • 3.10.4 Installing on Non-Networked Computers
  • 3.10.5 Installing on Static IP Computers that You Want to Disconnect from the Network Later
  • 3.10.6 Installing a Loopback Adapter
    • 3.10.6.1 Checking If a Loopback Adapter Is Installed on Your Computer
    • 3.10.6.2 Installing a Loopback Adapter
    • 3.10.6.3 Removing a Loopback Adapter
  • 3.10.7 Copying CD-ROMs or DVD-ROM to Hard Drive, and Installing from the Hard Drive
  • 3.10.8 Installing from a Remote CD-ROM or DVD Drive
  • 3.10.9 Installing on NFS-Mounted Storage
  • 3.10.10 Running Multiple Instances from One Installation
  • 3.10.11 Support for NIS and NIS+
• 3.11 Prerequisite Checks Performed by the Installer

4 Installing Oracle Business Intelligence

• 4.1 Starting the Oracle Universal Installer
  • 4.1.1 Windows System Files Installation
• 4.2 Installing Oracle Business Intelligence
• 4.3 Postinstallation Tasks
  • 4.3.1 General Checklist
    • 4.3.1.1 Updates
    • 4.3.1.2 TNS Names
    • 4.3.1.3 Port Numbers
    • 4.3.1.4 Associating with an Oracle Application Server Infrastructure
    • 4.3.1.5 Using assistive technologies and Java Access Bridge with Oracle Business Intelligence components after installation (Windows only)
  • 4.3.2 Postinstallation Tasks for All Discoverer Components
    • 4.3.2.1 How to Prepare for Multidimensional Analysis?
    • 4.3.2.2 How to prepare for relational analysis
  • 4.3.3 Component-Specific Postinstallation Tasks
    • 4.3.3.1 Postinstallation Tasks for Discoverer
    • 4.3.3.2 Postinstallation Tasks for Discoverer Viewer
    • 4.3.3.3 Postinstallation Tasks for Discoverer Portlet Provider and Discoverer portlets
• 4.4 Starting a Component
  • 4.4.1 Starting Discoverer Plus
  • 4.4.2 Starting Discoverer Viewer
  • 4.4.3 Starting Discoverer Portlet Provider
• 4.5 Using Samples
• 4.6 Installing and Accessing User Documentation and Help
  • 4.6.1 Installing Translated Help Files for Discoverer Plus After Installation
  • 4.6.2 Installing Additional Required Fonts After Installation
• 4.7 What to Do Next?

5 Deinstalling and Reinstalling Oracle Business Intelligence

• 5.1 Deinstalling Oracle Business Intelligence
• 5.2 Reinstalling Oracle Business Intelligence

A Troubleshooting

• A.1 Before You Begin
  • A.1.1 Verify Hardware and Preinstallation Requirements
  • A.1.2 Read the Release Notes
• A.2 Troubleshooting the Installation
• A.3 Using Discoverer Diagnostic and Logging Tools

B Installing Java Access Bridge

• B.1 What is Java Access Bridge?
• B.2 Setting up Java Access Bridge for use by Installed Oracle Components
  • B.2.1 Installing Java Access Bridge
  • B.2.2 Configuring Oracle Components to Use Java Access Bridge
    • B.2.2.1 Configuring for Windows Server 2003

C Noninteractive and Silent Installation

• C.1 Non-Interactive Installation
• C.2 Silent Installation
• C.3 Preinstallation
• C.4 Create the Response File
  • C.4.1 Example Response File
• C.5 Start the Installation
• C.6 Postinstallation
• C.7 Silent Deinstallation

D Default Port Numbers

• D.1 Method of Assigning Default Port Numbers
• D.2 Default Port Numbers

Index