Configuring Discoverer using the System MBean Browser Limiting the Number of Sessions for a Discoverer User

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4.12 Configuring Discoverer using the System MBean Browser

The System MBean Browser is a part of Fusion Middleware Control, and is used to update configuration settings for middle-tier components.You can use the System MBean Browser to enter or modify Discoverer configuration settings that are not available in Fusion Middleware Control Discoverer pages. To modify Discoverer configuration settings by using the System MBean Browser: 1. Start Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control and navigate to the Farm Home page. For more information, see Section 4.1.2, How to start Fusion Middleware Control and display the Farm Home page .

2. Navigate to the WLS_DISCO node.

3. From the WebLogic Server menu, select System MBean Browser.

Fusion Middleware Control displays the System MBean Browser page. 4. Click the plus + symbol to the left of the appropriate node in the navigation tree, and drill down to the specific MBean to modify. The navigation tree expands to display links for viewing or updating settings. Each node in the navigation tree represents settings in a configuration file.

5. Click a node in the navigation tree and select the Attributes tab, to display the

details for a group of attributes. For example, click the PlusConfig node and the Attributes tab to display attributes for Discoverer Plus configuration settings.

6. Update values of the attributes to modify by entering the new value in the Value

field.

7. Click Apply.

4.13 Limiting the Number of Sessions for a Discoverer User

The Discoverer administrator can limit the number of concurrent sessions for a Discoverer user by using the database profiles. To limit the number of sessions for a Discoverer user, login to the database as database administrator SYSDBA and execute the following SQL queries: 1. Create a new user profile as follows: create profile new_profile-name limit sessions_per_user number_of_sessions; 2. Associate the Discoverer user to the new user profile by executing the following SQL statement: alter user discoverer_user profile new_profile-name; Note: You should not use the System MBean Browser unless you are an advanced middle-tier administrator. Managing and Configuring Discoverer 4-21 3. Enforce resource limits assigned to the Discoverer user by setting the resource_ limit parameter to true as follows: alter system set resource_limit=true scope=both; For example, if you want to set the maximum number of concurrent sessions for the user disco1 to two sessions, execute the following SQL statements: create profile db_limit_user limit sessions_per_user 2; alter user disco1 profile db_limit_user; alter system set resource_limit=true scope=both; where db_limit_user is the new user profile associated with the Discoverer user disco1. 4-22 Oracle Fusion Middleware Configuration Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer 5 Configuring Discoverer Plus OLAP 5-1 5 Configuring Discoverer Plus OLAP This chapter describes how to configure the Discoverer Catalog and Discoverer Plus OLAP, and includes the following topics: ■ Section 5.1, Overview of the Discoverer Catalog