Verifying that the Oracle HTTP Server Is Running Verifying that the Reports Servlet and Server are Running

Part II Part II Administering Oracle Reports Services Part II provides information about administering Oracle Reports Services: ■ Chapter 7, Administering Oracle Reports Services Using Oracle Enterprise Manager ■ Chapter 8, Configuring Oracle Reports Services 7 Administering Oracle Reports Services Using Oracle Enterprise Manager 7-1 7 Administering Oracle Reports Services Using Oracle Enterprise Manager Oracle Reports 11g Release 1 11.1.1 is integrated with Oracle WebLogic Server, which results in simpler administration of complex topology and deployments. You can manage and monitor Oracle Reports components using either: ■ Oracle Enterprise Manager, included with Oracle Fusion Middleware recommended. ■ Oracle Process Manager and Notification Server OPMN This chapter describes how to manage and monitor Oracle Reports components using Oracle Enterprise Manager. It includes the following main sections: ■ What’s New In This Release? ■ Configuring Reports Server for Oracle Enterprise Manager ■ Viewing the Component Topology ■ Starting, Stopping, and Restarting Oracle Reports Components ■ Configuring Oracle Reports Components ■ Defining Oracle Enterprise Manager Administration Roles ■ Administering and Scheduling Jobs ■ Securing Oracle Reports Services ■ Managing Fonts ■ Monitoring Performance ■ Managing Log Files ■ Modifying Reports Server Audit Configuration ■ Registering Pluggable Destinations with Reports Server ■ Configuring Proxy Information ■ Managing and Monitoring a Reports High Availability HA Solution ■ About the Oracle Fusion Middleware System MBean Browser ■ Modifying Reports Configuration Settings Using the System MBean Browser ■ Diagnosing Issues 7-2 Publishing Reports to the Web with Oracle Reports Services 7.1 What’s New In This Release? Oracle Reports 11g Release 1 11.1.1 provides significant enhancements to Oracle Enterprise Manager, including pages to administer and configure Oracle Reports Services through the Oracle Enterprise Manager user interface, rather than by editing configuration files, as summarized in Table 7–1 a subset of Table 1–1, 11g Functionality vs. 10g Functionality : Note: Where needed, Oracle Reports Services pages in Oracle Enterprise Manager include context-sensitive Help topics that provide more information about the items on those pages. Click the Help icon to display the corresponding help topic. See Also: For more information on Oracle Enterprise Manager, refer to the Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrators Guide, available on the Oracle Fusion Middleware documentation CD. Table 7–1 11g Oracle Enterprise Manager Features vs. 10g Functionality 11g New Features Equivalent 10g Functionality Monitoring and Management New rich and customizable Oracle Enterprise Manager user interface, providing: ■ Navigation pane showing hierarchical view of complete Farm and all components. ■ New pages for Oracle Reports to perform comprehensive administration, management, configuration, tuning, and diagnostics of complete reporting environment. ■ Large number of metrics for monitoring and tuning. ■ Administration dashboard for instant access to start, stop, restart, grouping, servlet, plug-in registration, and more. ■ Significant reduction of configuration parameters, and categorization. ■ Extensive real-time and historical performance metrics. ■ Reports Server auditing. ■ Oracle Internet Directory reassociation ■ Portal metadata repository and association. ■ Direct access to documentation and collateral from Oracle Enterprise Manager. Enterprise Manager Application Server AS Control and manually editing configuration files. New trend graphs, key statistics. Anticipation of common problems with early symptoms. NA Job Administration and Scheduling For more information, see Section 7.7, Administering and Scheduling Jobs . Advanced job queue administration. Comprehensive job queue management user interface in Oracle Enterprise Manager search and filters, resubmit the job, view errors, and more. Basic job queue user interface. Administering Oracle Reports Services Using Oracle Enterprise Manager 7-3

7.2 Configuring Reports Server for Oracle Enterprise Manager

Reports Server is automatically registered with Oracle Enterprise Manager during installation of Oracle Fusion Middleware. If you add any Reports Servers or other Oracle Reports components after installing Oracle Fusion Middleware, do the following: 1. Restart the WLS_REPORTS managed server by stopping it and and start it again. This is necessary for completing registration of the new Reports Server configuration MBeans. 2. Refresh the Oracle Enterprise Manager page to make the new Oracle Reports components available in Oracle Enterprise Manager.

7.3 Viewing the Component Topology

Oracle Reports 11g Release 1 11.1.1 provides better framework to view the topology of the components. To view the topology of the instance in Oracle Enterprise Manager: 1. In the target navigation pane, view the complete Farm and all components in a hierarchical view.

2. In the target navigation pane, under the Farm node, expand Farm_ClassicDomain

Reports and click the Reports Application, Reports Bridge, Reports Server, or Reports Tools component nodes to display their home pages. 3. When you select a target, such as a Reports component, the targets home page is displayed in the content pane and the targets menu is displayed at the top. Alternatively, you can right-click on the target to view its menu.

7.4 Starting, Stopping, and Restarting Oracle Reports Components

To start, stop, and restart Oracle Reports components: 1. Navigate to the component’s home page see Section 7.3, Viewing the Component Topology .

2. From the Reports menu, select Control to view the status history of the

component, and activate Start Up, Shut Down.., or Restart... To start, stop, and restart in-process servers: Rich calendar-based scheduling user interface. Comprehensive Reports Server job scheduling in Oracle Enterprise Manager. Reports job scheduling done through Oracle Reports Queue Manager rwrqm, Oracle Portal user interface, or command line only. Security For more information, see Section 7.8, Securing Oracle Reports Services . Oracle Enterprise Manager advanced user interface. Administrators can use Oracle Enterprise Manager to more easily define and manage granular security policies for reports, Web commands, and folder access. Basic UI in OracleAS Portal for defining the policies. Hard-coded Web command access to the Oracle Reports seeded roles. Access policies at file report level only, not folder level. Table 7–1 Cont. 11g Oracle Enterprise Manager Features vs. 10g Functionality 11g New Features Equivalent 10g Functionality 7-4 Publishing Reports to the Web with Oracle Reports Services Navigate to the component’s home page and select reports Managed_Server_ Name Administration Start Stop Restart In-process Reports Server.

7.5 Configuring Oracle Reports Components

Beginning in Oracle Reports 11g Release 1 11.1.1, it is recommended that configuration should be done only through Oracle Enterprise Manager. Using Oracle Enterprise Manager and JMX Console, you can view and update configuration using the following menu selections in Oracle Enterprise Manager: Table 7–2 Configuration Menu Selections Select To Display Reports Administration Basic Configuration Reports Server Basic Configuration page. Reports Administration Advanced Configuration Reports Server Advanced Configuration page. Includes Help icon for detailed page information. Reports Administration FormsReports Common Configuration Forms Reports Common Component Configuration page rwbuilder, rwserver, rwrun, and fontprinter related information. In target navigation pane, Farm_ClassicDomain Reports Reports Tools component node Reports Tools Component Configuration page rwbuilder, rwrun, rwclient, rwconv, rwrqm configuration file info, rwnetwork configuration file info, and PDS info. Reports Bridge Administration Bridge Configuration Reports Bridge Configuration page. On Reports Application page, for example reports WLS_ REPORTS: Reports Administration Basic Configuration Reports Application Basic Configuration page. On Reports Application page, for example reports WLS_ REPORTS: Reports Administration Advanced Configuration Reports Application Advanced Configuration page. Includes Help icon for detailed page information. On Reports Server home page: Reports Logs Log Configuration Reports Server Log Configuration page. On Reports Tools home page: Reports Logs Log Configuration Reports Tools Log Configuration page. On Reports Application home page: Reports Logs Log Configuration Reports Application Log Configuration page. On Reports Bridge home page: Reports Bridge Logs Log Configuration Reports Bridge Log Configuration page.