What Is the Administration Server?

1-8 System Administrators Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition – JMX MBeans — Java components that provide programmatic access for managing a BI domain. – Fusion Middleware Control — An administrative user interface that is used to manage the BI domain. – WebLogic Server Administration Console — An administrative user interface that provides advanced management for WebLogic, JEE components, and security. ■ For Simple Install types, the Administration Server also contains the components that comprise the Managed Server in an Enterprise Install type, such as Action Services and Oracle BI Publisher. 1.4 What System Administration Tools Manage Oracle Business Intelligence? The following sections describe system administration tools that are available to help you to manage Oracle Business Intelligence. Table 1–2 outlines the tools and their purpose.

1.4.1 Fusion Middleware Control

Fusion Middleware Control is a browser-based tool and the recommended method for monitoring, managing, and configuring Oracle Business Intelligence components. Fusion Middleware Control is used principally for managing the system components of a BI domain and provides support for the following: ■ Starting, stopping, and restarting all system components and Managed Servers ■ Configuring preferences and defaults ■ Scaling out of system components ■ Providing high availability configuration and status of system components ■ Managing performance and monitoring system metrics ■ Performing diagnostics and logging Table 1–2 System Administration Tools for Oracle Business Intelligence Section Tool Purpose Section 1.4.1 Fusion Middleware Control Monitor, manage, and configure system components for Oracle Business Intelligence. Section 1.4.2 Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Console Monitor and manage JEE Java components for Oracle Business Intelligence. Section 1.4.3 Oracle Process Manager and Notification Server OPMN Manage system components for Oracle Business Intelligence for advanced users. Section 1.4.4 Oracle Weblogic Scripting Tool WLST Programmatically administer Oracle Business Intelligence. Section 1.4.5 Oracle BI Administration Tool Manage the metadata repository for Oracle Business Intelligence. Section 1.4.6 Job Manager Manage the Oracle BI Scheduler Introduction to Oracle Business Intelligence System Administration 1-9 Fusion Middleware Control also provides access to Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Console, where you monitor and manage Oracle Business Intelligence Java components. Fusion Middleware Control is available only if the Administration Server is running, as described in Section 4.2, Starting the Oracle Business Intelligence System. For more information, see Chapter 2, Managing Oracle Business Intelligence.

1.4.2 Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Console

Oracle WebLogic Server is a Java EE application server that supports the deployment of Oracle Business Intelligence Java components in a robust, secure, highly available, and scalable environment. For more information, see Chapter 2, Managing Oracle Business Intelligence. Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Console enables you to monitor and manage a WebLogic Server domain. Its capabilities include the following: ■ Monitoring the health and performance of JEE servers ■ Configuring WebLogic server domains ■ Stopping and starting JEE servers ■ Viewing JEE server logs ■ Managing user populations in the LDAP Server of the Oracle WebLogic Server For more information, see Oracle Technology Network at the following location: http:www.oracle.comtechnologyindex.html .

1.4.3 Oracle Process Manager and Notification Server OPMN Tool

OPMN is a process management tool that manages the Oracle Business Intelligence system components. OPMN supports both local and distributed process management, automatic process recycling, and the communication of process state up, down, starting, and stopping. OPMN detects process unavailability and automatically restarts processes. OPMN provides the following functionality to manage the Oracle Business Intelligence system components: ■ A command-line interface for advanced users to control Oracle Fusion Middleware components. For information, see Section 4.5, Alternative Methods for Starting and Stopping System Components. ■ Automatic restart of processes when they become unresponsive or terminate unexpectedly. ■ An integrated way to manage Oracle Fusion Middleware components. Note: Fusion Middleware Control is the recommended approach for starting, stopping, and viewing the status of components. However, following a restart on Linux you must use the opmnctl start, or startall command. OPMN is suitable only for advanced users.