Task 1: Understand the Starting Points for BI Publisher Upgrade

Upgrading Oracle BI Publisher 6-3 6.4.2 Important Notes When Installing Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher 11g in Preparation for Upgrade Important screens when running the Oracle Business Intelligence installer: ■ Select Installation Type screen — Select Enterprise install for new installations. This option installs a new Oracle Business Intelligence system for a hosted deployment on one or more computers. ■ Create or Scale Out BI System screen — Click Create New BI System. ■ Specify Installation Location screen — Specify the Oracle Middleware home location. ■ Database Details screen — Specify the database type, the database connection string, and the user name and password for the Business Intelligence Platform schema.

6.5 Task 5: Upgrade the BI Publisher Repository

Use the Oracle Fusion Middleware Upgrade Assistant to upgrade the BI Publisher Repository. Before you start Upgrade Assistant, follow these steps: 1. Back up the 10g and 11g repositories. 2. Choose the upgraded BI Publisher 11g repository path. This can be the same as the installed 11g repository path, for example, \user_ projects\domains\bifoundation_ domain\config\bipublisher\repository . It can also be a new path on the server, for example, D:\MyUpgradedBIPRepository\repository. If you choose a new path for the upgraded repository, then copy the content of 11g repository to this new path. 3. Stop the Managed Server on which BI Publisher is running if the environment is using the BI Publisher catalog file-based. If you choose a new path for the upgraded repository, then the Upgrade Assistant utility will simply upgrade all your 10g catalog contents to this location. Any seeded 11g content such as the Sample Files will not be included. The Administration Server should remain running. For information on what is upgraded by Upgrade Assistant, see Section 1.4, Understanding BI Publisher Upgrade. For a descriptions of the security model upgrade path, see Section 1.4.1.2, Security Model Changes. Upgrade Assistant is installed automatically into the bin directory of the Oracle Fusion Middleware Oracle home. Note: If you have already installed Oracle BI EE and selected the option to install BI Publisher, then you are not required to perform Task 4. Note: You can upgrade the BI Publisher Repository and Scheduler schema in any order.