How to confirm an Oracle BI Discoverer installation

1-8 Oracle Fusion Middleware Configuration Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer

1.5 How to confirm an Oracle BI Discoverer installation

To confirm an Oracle BI Discoverer installation: 1. Start a Web browser and enter the Discoverer Viewer URL that contains the fully qualified host name including port number, if necessary that is used by your own Oracle installation. For example: http:host.domain:portdiscovererviewer If the Discoverer installation is not associated with an Oracle Internet Directory and with the two database schemas that Discoverer requires the PStore and Portlet Provider schemas, then end users connect directly using the Connect Directly area of the Connect to Oracle BI Discoverer page see screenshot below. Note : If Single Sign-On SSO is enabled, then you are first asked to authenticate as an SSOOAM user. If the Discoverer installation is associated with an Oracle Internet Directory and with the two database schemas that Discoverer requires the PStore and Portlet Provider schemas, then the Connect to Discoverer Viewer page is displayed see screenshot below. Run Discoverer Plus or Discoverer Viewer. Chapter 2, Starting Oracle BI Discoverer Specify Discoverer end user preferences. Chapter 9, Managing Oracle BI Discoverer Preferences Upgrade Discoverer to a newer version. Appendix B, Upgrading from Earlier Versions of Discoverer What do you want to do? Look in this section: Introducing Oracle BI Discoverer 1-9

2. If the Choose Connection area is displayed, do one of the following:

■ Select a connection name in the Connection column to start Discoverer Viewer. ■ Create a private connection to store database login details click Create Connection to add a private connection; then, select the new connection. ■ Use the Connect Directly area to enter login details, then click Go to start Discoverer Viewer.

3. If only the Connect Directly area is displayed, enter login details and click OK.

Discoverer displays the Worksheet List page, which enables you to select a worksheet to open. You can now begin to analyze data using Discoverer’s powerful business intelligence analysis tools. Notes ■ For more information about how to create a private connection, see Oracle Fusion Middleware Users Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer Plus. ■ For more information about starting Discoverer Viewer, see Section 2.11, How to start Discoverer Viewer over HTTP. ■ For more information about starting Discoverer Plus, see Section 2.6, About running Discoverer Plus over HTTP for the first time on a client machine. ■ You can use the checkdiscoverer utility to verify a Discoverer configuration and report on failures or anomalies for more information about the checkdiscoverer utility, see Section 11.2, What is the checkdiscoverer utility? ■ Discoverer Plus OLAP has its own diagnostics utility for more information, see Section 5.6, Configuration diagnostic utility for Discoverer Plus OLAP

1.6 About connecting to Discoverer