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Figure 4–1 Fusion Middleware Control Discoverer Home Page and Discoverer Menu
Key to Figure 4–1
a . The navigation pane enables you to navigate to the components that can be
managed by Fusion Middleware Control. For more information, see Section 4.1.5,
About the navigation pane in Fusion Middleware Control .
b. You can use the Topology button to display the topology viewer. For more
information, see Section 4.1.6, About using the Topology Viewer to view relationships
between components in a Fusion Middleware Farm .
c . The Components region for more information, see
Section 4.1.4, How to configure application URLs displayed on the Fusion Middleware Control Discoverer Home
page and
Section 4.2, About using Fusion Middleware Control to manage Discoverer middle-tier components
d . The Memory Usage region displays performance information about Discoverer
components.
e . The Discoverer menu enables you to do the following tasks:
- Display the Discoverer home page - Monitor sessions, performance and logs
- Start and stop the Java EE applications - Configure logging
- Display the Discoverer Administration page. - Display general information about the Discoverer version, and path information
about the Oracle Home and Oracle Instance.
f . The Resource Center region displays links to related documentation.
3.
To go to the home page of a Discoverer component, click the name of the component in the Name column.
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4.1.4 How to configure application URLs displayed on the Fusion Middleware Control Discoverer Home page
You can access Discoverer components from the Fusion Middleware Control Discoverer Home page, by clicking the appropriate URL in the Application URL
column of the Components area.
For the URLs to be displayed, you must first configure the ApplicationURL parameter by using the System MBean Browser.
To configure the ApplicationURL parameter, perform the following steps:
1.
Start the System MBean Browser.
a.
In the navigation pane of Fusion Middleware Control, go to the WebLogic Domain node, and select the domain in which the Discoverer application is
deployed.
b. From the WebLogic Domain menu, select System MBean Browser.
2.
In the navigation tree of the System MBean Browser, navigate to the DiscovererConfig
node under Application Defined MBeans, com.oracle, Server: managed_server
, Application: discoverer, xml. 3.
In the Attributes pane on the right, enter the host name and port in the Value field of the ApplicationURL attribute, in the following format.
http:host_name:port_numberroot context
4. Click Apply.
4.1.5 About the navigation pane in Fusion Middleware Control
The navigation pane enables you to navigate to the components of a farm that are managed by Fusion Middleware Control.
You can display or hide lower-level nodes in the navigation pane by clicking the plus + or minus - sign at each node. When you select a node in the navigation pane,
Fusion Middleware Control displays the corresponding page in the right-hand pane.
Depending on the choices made during installation, the following components might be displayed as nodes in the navigation pane:
■
WebLogic Domain
The domain in which Discoverer applications are deployed.
– AdminServer
The administration server of the domain in which Discoverer applications are deployed.
– cluster or managed servers
Note: Discoverer applications might be hosted on a machine that is
different from the machine through which users access the applications for example, users might be accessing applications
through an HTTP server. If this is the case, ensure that the URL that you specify corresponds to the host that is exposed to the users, and
not the machine that actually hosts the applications.
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The cluster or managed servers on which Discoverer Java EE applications are deployed.
■
Discoverer –
discoverer11.1.1.2.0
The Discoverer node Select this node to display the Discoverer pages.
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Web Tier –
ohs_name
The Oracle HTTP Server node Select this node to configure SSL.
– wc_name
The Oracle Web Cache node Select this node to configure Web Cache settings.
4.1.6 About using the Topology Viewer to view relationships between components in a Fusion Middleware Farm
The topology viewer provides a graphical, real-time view of the Fusion Middleware farm. The Farm Topology page provides you with a high-level view of the topology,
including Oracle instances, WebLogic Server instances, Web servers, and deployed applications. Status and performance information is also displayed in context of the
topology viewer. You can also print the topology or save it to a .png file.
To use the topology viewer to view the relationship between components in a Fusion Middleware farm:
1.
Start 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. To view the entire topology of the farm, click the Topology button. To view the
topology for a specific node, select that node in the navigation pane and then click the Topology button.
For more information, see the Oracle Fusion Middleware 2 Day Administration Guide.
4.2 About using Fusion Middleware Control to manage Discoverer middle-tier components
The main tasks that you perform by using Fusion Middleware Control are:
■
Stopping and starting Discoverer Java EE applications. For more information, see Section 4.4, About starting and stopping Discoverer servlets
.
■
Enabling and disabling Discoverer client-tier components. For more information, see
Section 4.5, About enabling and disabling Discoverer client-tier components .
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Configuring Discoverer client-tier components. For more information, see Section 4.6, About configuring the Discoverer middle-tier and client-tier
components .
Note: There could be multiple Discoverer deployment in a single
domain, allowing users to navigate between the deployments by using the navigation tree.
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Monitoring Discoverer metrics. For more information, see Section 4.7, About
monitoring Discoverer performance .
Figure 4–2 depicts the management tasks that you can perform for Discoverer
components by using Fusion Middleware Control.
Figure 4–2 Using Fusion Middleware Control to Manage the Discoverer Java EE
Applications and Client-Tier Components
Notes
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Discoverer Portlet Provider and Discoverer Web Services are displayed only if the Discoverer installation is associated with the Oracle Internet Directory and the
Discoverer schemas. For more information, see Section 1.3, About Oracle BI
Discoverer installations .
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For more information about the Discoverer preferences server component, see Section 1.9.2, About the Discoverer CORBA components
.
■
For more information about Discoverer client-tier components, see Section 1.8,
About the Discoverer client tier .
Role-based security for Discoverer configuration pages Access permissions for configuration pages in Fusion Middleware Control are based
on the security roles assigned to users.
Users who are assigned the following logical security roles can configure Discoverer by using Fusion Middleware Control:
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Admin
■
Configurator
■
ApplicationAdmin
■
ApplicationConfigurator All other users can only view the configuration pages in Fusion Middleware Control.
For the mapping between logical and WebLogic security roles, see Mapping of Logical Roles to WebLogic Roles in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Application Security
Guide.
For information about assigning roles to users, see Add users to roles in the Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Console Online Help.
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4.3 How to start, stop, and restart the Discoverer preferences server component using opmnctl
