Starting, Stopping, and Restarting Oracle Reports Components

Administering Oracle Reports Services Using Oracle Enterprise Manager 7-5

7.5.1 Configuring a Mail Server

Oracle Reports 11g Release 1 11.1.1 provides the option to configure the Mail Server element from Enterprise Manager. To configure the Mail Server element, complete the following steps:

1. Log in to Oracle Enterprise Manager.

2. Navigate to the Reports Server Home Page.

3. From the Reports menu, select Administration Basic Configuration

The Reports Server Basic Configuration page is displayed.

4. In the Reports Server Parameters content pane, enter the name of the mail server

in the Mail Server field. 5. If the mail server is secured, enter the SSL port number in the Mail Server Port field.

6. Select the Enable SSL for Mail Server checkbox if the mail server is secure.

7. Enter the mail server username and CSF key of the password in the Mail Server

Username and Mail Server Password fields, respectively. 8. Click Apply.

7.6 Defining Oracle Enterprise Manager Administration Roles

In 11g Release 1 11.1.1, Oracle Enterprise Manager supports three kinds of administration roles: Administrator, Operator, and Monitor. An Administrator role has full privilege for performing any operations, including security-related operations. Whereas, an Operator has a few privileges and the monitor has a limited set of privileges. If a user doesn’t have permission, the functionality is either invisible or greyed out. Note: For those pages that include a Help icon, click the Help icon to access the page-level help. Complete the elements on the page using the descriptions in the Help topic for the page. While you are accessing the Reports application configuration pages in Enterprise Manager, if an application is shut down from Enterprise Manager, you may see an error message that states that the Reports configuration Mbeans are not found. This message is displayed because the Reports configuration Mbeans are not available when an application is down. When you refresh the page or return to the page again, Enterprise Manager displays a user-friendly message about the Reports application being down and the inability of Enterprise Manager to edit the configuration of the applilcation. When you start the Reports application again, the editing of its configuration becomes possible. Starting with the Oracle Fusion Middleware 11.1.1.3.0 release, the version of the Reports application in Enterprise Manager is shown as reports 11.1.1.2.0 WLS_REPORTS. 7-6 Publishing Reports to the Web with Oracle Reports Services

7.7 Administering and Scheduling Jobs

The improved user interface in Oracle Enterprise Manager provides advanced job queue management search and filters, resubmit the job, view errors, and more, as well as rich calendar-based scheduling for Reports Server jobs. ■ Displaying Jobs ■ Displaying a Consolidated Job Queue ■ Performing Operations on Jobs ■ Scheduling Jobs

7.7.1 Displaying Jobs

To retrieve information about one or more jobs for example, status, errors for failed jobs, trace information: 1. Log in to Oracle Enterprise Manager. 2. Navigate to the Reports Server Home page see Section 7.3, Viewing the Component Topology .

3. From the Reports menu, select Reports Jobs Jobs Page.

The Jobs page displays for the category of jobs selected in the Show list. 4. From the Show list, select the category of jobs you want to view for example, Failed Jobs .

5. Enter desired information in the Owner, Output Type, and Output Format fields

to customize the list of jobs displayed.

7.7.2 Displaying a Consolidated Job Queue

New in Oracle Reports 11g Release 1 11.1.1 is the database-based shared job repository, which provides the ability to display a consolidated view of job queues using Oracle Enterprise Manager: 1. Log in to Oracle Enterprise Manager. 2. Navigate to the Reports Server Home page of any Reports Server that participates in a high availability HA group.

3. From the Reports menu, select Reports Jobs Jobs Page.

The Jobs page displays for the category of jobs selected in the Show list. 4. From the Show list, select Finished Jobs. 5. From the Output Format list, select either a Reports Server name to view the jobs for that Reports Server, or the group name to view the jobs for all Reports Servers in the group. You can also use rwservlet and the SHOWJOBS Web command to display a consolidated job queue, as shown in Section A.8.8, SHOWJOBS .