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Oracle® Business Intelligence Installation Guide
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Release 2 (10.1.2) for Linux Itanium
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Contents
Title and Copyright Information
Preface
Intended 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
Component-Specific Preinstallation Tasks
1.3.3.1
Preinstallation Tasks for Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer Plus
1.3.3.2
Preinstallation Tasks for Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer Viewer
1.3.3.3
Preinstallation Tasks for Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer Portlet Provider and Discoverer Portlets
1.3.3.4
Preinstallation Tasks for Reports Services
1.3.4
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
2.2
Software Requirements
2.2.1
Software Requirements for Linux Itanium
2.2.1.1
Software Requirements for Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS/ES 3.0 Systems
2.2.1.2
Software Requirements for Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS/ES 4.0 Systems
2.2.1.3
Software Requirements for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 Systems
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
Check 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
Check the Software Requirements
3.4.1
Checking the Software Requirements for Linux on POWER
3.4.1.1
Software Requirements for Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS/ES 3.0 Systems
3.4.1.2
Software Requirements for Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS/ES 4.0 Systems
3.4.1.3
Software Requirements for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 Systems
3.5
Kernel Parameters
3.5.1
Configuring the Kernel Parameters on Linux
3.6
Ports
3.6.1
Checking If a Port Is in Use
3.6.2
Using Default Port Numbers
3.6.3
Using Custom Port Numbers (the Static Ports Feature)
3.6.3.1
Format of the staticports.ini File
3.6.3.2
Error Conditions that Cause the Installer to Use Default Ports Instead of Specified Ports
3.6.3.3
Ports for Oracle HTTP Server and OracleAS Web Cache
3.6.3.4
Examples
3.7
Operating System Groups
3.7.1
Create a Group for the Inventory Directory
3.7.2
Create Groups for Database Administrators
3.8
Operating System User
3.9
Environment Variables
3.9.1
Tips on Environment Variables
3.9.2
ORACLE_HOME and ORACLE_SID
3.9.3
PATH, CLASSPATH, and LD_LIBRARY_PATH
3.9.4
DISPLAY
3.9.5
TMP and TMPDIR
3.9.6
TNS_ADMIN
3.9.7
REPORTS_DEFAULT_DISPLAY
3.9.8
ORA_NLS
3.9.9
LD_BIND_NOW (Linux Only)
3.10
The /etc/hosts File
3.11
Network Topics
3.11.1
Installing on Multihomed (Multi-IP) Computers
3.11.2
Copying CD-ROMs or DVD-ROM to Hard Drive, and Installing from the Hard Drive
3.11.3
Installing from a Remote CD-ROM or DVD Drive
3.11.4
Installing on Remote Computers
3.11.5
Installing on NFS-Mounted Storage
3.11.6
Running Multiple Instances from One Installation
3.11.7
Support for NIS and NIS+
3.11.8
Installing on Computers With Multiple Network Cards
3.12
Prerequisite Checks Performed by the Installer
4
Installing Oracle Business Intelligence
4.1
Starting the Installer
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
4.3.2
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
Noninteractive and Silent Installation
B.1
Non-Interactive Installation
B.2
Silent Installation
B.3
Preinstallation
B.4
Create the Response File
B.4.1
Example Response File
B.5
Start the Installation
B.6
Postinstallation
B.7
Silent Deinstallation
C
Default Port Numbers
C.1
Method of Assigning Default Port Numbers
C.2
Default Port Numbers
Index