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9 Oracle Business Intelligence Systems Management API 9-1 9 Oracle Business Intelligence Systems Management API The Oracle Business Intelligence Systems Management API is a programming interface which provides access to Business Intelligence JMX Admin MBeans, enabling a developer to programmatically carry out system administration tasks for Oracle Business Intelligence. The system administration tasks that can be carried out using the BI Systems Management API, are also available using Fusion Middleware Control. For more information, see Introducing the BI Systems Management API in Oracle Fusion Middleware System Administrators Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition. 9-2 Oracle Fusion Middleware Integrators Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 10 Integrating Other Clients with Oracle Business Intelligence 10-1 10 Integrating Other Clients with Oracle Business Intelligence You can connect to the Oracle BI Server with a wide variety of ODBC-compliant query and reporting tools, as well as other clients such as remote Administration Tool clients. To connect with a remote client, you configure an ODBC DSN for the Oracle BI Server on the remote client computer, and then use that DSN to connect to a repository from the query tool. Oracle BI Presentation Services clients also connect to the Oracle BI Server using an ODBC DSN. A default ODBC DSN for Presentation Services is created and configured for you during Oracle Business Intelligence installation. Administration Tool clients on the same host as a Presentation Services instance can also use the default DSN to connect to the Oracle BI Server. Or, you can create a separate DSN for the Administration Tool to use. The connection parameters for the Cluster Controller and the SSL parameters in the default DSN are centrally managed by Fusion Middleware Control. Do not update these parameters. If you attempt to manually update the centrally managed parameters, the values will be overwritten the next time the system is started. In addition, do not change the name of the centrally managed default DSN. The default DSN has a name similar to coreapplication_OHid_number, where id_number is a number specific to an installed Oracle home. This chapter explains how you can integrate with the Oracle BI Server as a data source using ODBC on both Windows and UNIX platforms. This chapter includes the following topics: ■ Section 10.1, About Integrating with the Oracle BI Server as a Data Source ■ Section 10.2, ODBC Conformance Level ■ Section 10.3, Configuring an ODBC DSN for the Oracle BI Server on Windows ■ Section 10.4, Configuring an ODBC DSN for the Oracle BI Server on Linux or UNIX

10.1 About Integrating with the Oracle BI Server as a Data Source

Open Database Connectivity ODBC is an industry standard interface for connecting to databases. A Data Source Name DSN is used to store the information about connecting to a given database as a given database user over ODBC. You use the Oracle BI Server ODBC driver to configure a DSN to connect to a set of clustered Oracle BI Servers through the Cluster Controllers, or to an individual Oracle