Performance Considerations Setting Up a Log File to Collect Information for Usage Tracking

10 Configuring Repositories 10-1 10 Configuring Repositories You can use Fusion Middleware Control to upload the Oracle BI metadata repository and to set the location of the Oracle BI Presentation Catalog. This chapter includes the following topics: ■ Section 10.1, Why Upload a Repository and Set the Catalog Location? ■ Section 10.2, Using Fusion Middleware Control to Upload a Repository and Set the Oracle BI Presentation Catalog Location ■ Section 10.3, Using the System MBeans to Upload the Metadata Repository 10.1 Why Upload a Repository and Set the Catalog Location? As the administrator, you must ensure that users can access the metadata repositories and Oracle BI Presentation Catalogs that contain the information that they require. The following list describes the importance of uploading the repository and setting the catalog location: ■ Upload Repository — Uploading a repository enables the Oracle BI Server to load the repository into memory upon startup and makes the repository available for queries. When you upload a repository file, you provide the name and location of the repository file and the current repository password. The uploaded repository is available to clients of Oracle BI Server, including to Oracle BI Presentation Services. ■ Set Catalog Location — Setting the location of the Oracle BI Presentation Catalog ensures that its objects are available to users of Oracle Business Intelligence. The catalog is never uploaded. Instead, you copy the catalog files manually to either a local or shared location, then you set the location in Fusion Middleware Control.

10.1.1 Understanding Modes

You can upload the repository in either shared mode, which is recommended, or in distributed mode, as described in the following list: ■ In shared mode, each Oracle BI Server instance loads the repository from the shared network location designated as the repository upload directory. You typically upload the repository in the recommended mode of shared when you have multiple Oracle BI Server components in the deployment. Repositories that are uploaded through Fusion Middleware Control are uploaded to both the shared location and the default local directory for each Oracle BI Server.