Using Fusion Middleware Control to Update Oracle Business Intelligence Configuration Settings

Configuring the Oracle Business Intelligence System 3-3 6. When you have finished making your changes, do one of the following: ■ Click Activate Changes to execute your changes and release the lock to enable another system administrator to make changes. ■ Click Release Configuration to undo all changes you made since clicking Lock and Edit Configuration and release the lock to enable another system administrator to make changes.

7. After you have activated your changes, go to the Overview page and click Restart.

3.3 Using the Oracle BI Systems Management API to Update Configuration Settings

You can use the Oracle BI Systems Management API to update Oracle Business Intelligence configuration settings that are normally managed by Fusion Middleware Control. For information, see Section 22.3.3, Updating Configuration Settings Using the Oracle BI Systems Management API.

3.4 Using a Text Editor to Update Configuration Settings

You can manually update configuration settings that are not normally managed by Fusion Middleware Control using a text editor. You can use a text editor to manually update Oracle Business Intelligence configuration settings that are not normally managed by Fusion Middleware Control, as described in the following procedure. To manually update Oracle Business Intelligence configuration settings that are not normally managed by Fusion Middleware Control: 1. Make a backup copy of the files that you plan to edit. 2. Open the configuration file in a text editor. For information, see Section 3.6, Where Are Configuration Files Located? 3. In each configuration file to change, locate the element or create the new element if you must add a setting to the file. 4. Enter the appropriate changes. 5. Save your changes and close the configuration file. 6. Restart Oracle Business Intelligence. Caution: If you manually update configuration settings that are not normally managed by Fusion Middleware Control, then you must likely make identical changes in multiple copies of configuration files on multiple computers. If you fail to make changes in all of the necessary configuration files, then the system might be damaged. Note: If Oracle Business Intelligence is installed on multiple computers or in multiple locations, then a copy of the configuration file exists for each installation, and each file contains duplicate settings. Therefore, you must locate and make the same changes in each copy of a configuration file . 3-4 System Administrators Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition For information, see Section 4.1, About Starting and Stopping Oracle Business Intelligence. It is possible to manually update configuration settings that are normally managed by Fusion Middleware Control. However, you should never attempt such updates unless you are specifically instructed to do so by Oracle Support Services. For information, see Appendix D, Manually Updating Fusion Middleware Control Settings.

3.5 Using the Fusion Middleware Control MBean Browser to Update Configuration Settings

Use Fusion Middleware Control to update configuration settings, unless specifically directed to use the MBean Browser. For information, see Section 3.2, Using Fusion Middleware Control to Update Oracle Business Intelligence Configuration Settings. To update configuration settings using the Fusion Middleware Control MBean Browser: 1. Display the Fusion Middleware Control MBean Browser. For information, see Section 2.4.2, Displaying the Fusion Middleware Control MBean Browser. 2. Lock the domain. Before you change any Oracle Business Intelligence-related configuration attribute settings using the Fusion Middleware Control MBean Browser, you must lock the domain as follows: a. Navigate to the following MBean the first BIDomain MBean: oracle.biee.admin, Domain:bifoundation_domain, BIDomain, BIDomain. b. Display the Operations tab.

c. Click the Lock operation link.

When you have locked the domain, you can start to update settings. 3. Expand a folder to display the details for a group of configuration file attributes. For example, to configure Oracle Business Intelligence e-mail settings, expand the BIDomain.BIInstance.EmailConfiguration folder, and select the underlying node of the same name. To configure a different group of Oracle Business Intelligence configuration settings, expand the required folder, and select its underlying node. 4. Create or update a value in the following ways: – Entering directly into a field in the Attributes tab: Enter a new value into the Value field for the appropriate row. Click Apply to save the changes, or Revert to undo the changes. – Entering into a new page that you display from the Attributes tab: Click the link in the Name column to display a new page. Enter a new value in the Value field. Click Apply to save the changes, or Revert to undo the changes. Click Return to close the page.

5. Click Revert to undo your changes.