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19-4 System Administrators Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition

19.3.2 Manually Changing Additional Scheduler Settings That Affect Agents

In addition to the scheduler settings that you can change in Fusion Middleware Control, you can change other settings manually. Use various elements in the instanceconfig.xml file to change these settings. You must apply changes to both the primary and secondary schedulers instanceconfig.xml in a cluster. Before you begin this procedure, ensure that you are familiar with the information in Section 3.4, Using a Text Editor to Update Configuration Settings. To manually change additional Oracle BI Scheduler settings that affect agents: 1. Open the Oracle BI Scheduler version of the instanceconfig.xml file for editing, as described in Section 3.6, Where Are Configuration Files Located? 2. Locate the sections in which you must add or update the elements that are described in Section 19.3.3, What Additional Scheduler Configuration Settings Affect Agents? 3. Include the elements and their ancestor elements as appropriate. The entry for Log_Dir is shown in the following example: xs:element name=Log_Dir type=xs:string default=ibots minOccurs=0 xs:annotation xs:documentation xml:lang=en The directory where Agent logs are stored. xs:documentation xs:annotation xs:element

4. Save your changes and close the file.

5. Restart Oracle Business Intelligence.

DefaultDeliveryFormat Specifies the default format for sending e-mailed reports through an agent. For example, a content designer can create an agent to send a report every day to a development team to share how many bugs have been fixed in the past day. When the content designer creates the agent, he can specify the format of the e-mail. As the administrator, you can specify the default format that is used for such e-mails, using one of the following values: html pdf excel text html Note: You cannot specify values for user name and password in the instanceconfig.xml file. Instead you specify values in Fusion Middleware Control that are stored securely within the central credentials wallet, along with all other user names and passwords. Table 19–1 Cont. Presentation Services Settings That Affect Agents Element Description Default Value Configuring and Managing Agents 19-5 19.3.3 What Additional Scheduler Configuration Settings Affect Agents? You can change the following additional Oracle BI Scheduler configuration settings that affect agents: ■ Section 19.3.3.1, General Scheduler Configuration Settings That Affect Agents ■ Section 19.3.3.2, E-Mail Scheduler Configuration Settings That Affect Agents ■ Section 19.3.3.3, Agent Scheduler Configuration Settings

19.3.3.1 General Scheduler Configuration Settings That Affect Agents

General configuration settings include access to, and configuration of, the Scheduler back-end database, some behavior settings, and settings for secure sockets and clustering configuration. Table 19–2 describes the settings. Table 19–2 General Scheduler Configuration Settings That Affect Agents Element Description Default Value PoolTimeout Specifies the amount of time in minutes that a connection to the data source remains open after an operation completes. During this time, new operations use this connection rather than open a new one, up to the number specified for Maximum Connections. The time is reset after each completed connection request. Specify a value of 1 or greater. 60 NumDbConnecti ons Specifies the maximum number of database connections that Oracle BI Scheduler can open concurrently. Specify a value of 1 or greater. When this limit is reached, the connection request waits until a connection becomes available. 5 TABLE_JOBS Specifies the name of a database table used to store information about scheduled jobs. Note : For information about modifying the database table names, see Changing Oracle BI Scheduler Table Names in Oracle Fusion Middleware Scheduling Jobs Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition and see Oracle Business Intelligence Applications Installation and Configuration Guide. S_NQ_JOB TABLE_ INSTANCES Specifies the name of a database table used to store information about job instances. S_NQ_ INSTANCE TABLE_PARAMS Specifies the name of a database table used to store information about job parameters. S_NQ_JOB_ PARAM TABLE_ ERRMSGS Specifies the name of a database table used to store information about job instances that do not complete successfully. S_NQ_ERR_ MSG SchedulerScriptP ath Refers to the path where Oracle BI Scheduler-created job scripts are stored. In general, you should not add or remove scripts from this directory. By default, this field is set to ORACLE_ INSTANCE\bifoundation\OracleBISchedulerComponent\ coreapplication_obischn\scripts\scheduler, for example D:\OBI11g\instances\instance1\bifoundation\OracleBISc hedulerComponent\coreapplication_ obisch1\scripts\scheduler. scripts\sche duler