Creating Reports to Display Catalog Data Using Catalog Manager

Configuring and Managing the Oracle BI Presentation Catalog 17-35 full-text catalog search if a supported search engine is not installed and configured for use with the Oracle BI Presentation Catalog. For this release of Oracle BI EE, Oracle Secure Enterprise Search SES is the supported search engine. You can use SES Release 11.1.2 or later. You can install SES either before or after you install Oracle BI EE and on either the same computer or a different one. For information about SES, display the following page from Oracle Technology Network: http:www.oracle.comusproductsdatabasesecure-enterprise-sea rchindex.html Before proceeding, ensure that Secure Enterprise Search is installed at your site and that you know the URL to the Secure Enterprise Search administration tool. You use the administration tool to configure crawling and indexing of the Oracle BI Presentation Catalog. Use a URL in the following format to access the administration tool: http:host:portsearchadmincontrollogin.jsp where host is the computer on which Secure Enterprise Search is installed and port is the port for the administration tool.

17.11.4.3 Step 3: Configuring Identity Management for Full-Text Catalog Search

Use the Secure Enterprise Search administration tool to configure identity management for the full-text catalog search. To configure Identity Management for the full-text catalog search: 1. Access the Secure Enterprise Search administration tool.

2. Display the Identity Management Setup page using steps such as the following:

Select Global Settings, then Identity Management Setup in the System section. 3. In the list of available identity plug-ins, select Oracle Fusion. 4. On the Activate Identity Plug-in tab, specify the following: ■ HTTP endpoint for authentication: The URL for the full-text catalog search security service, in the following format: http:host:portbisearchcrawlerSecurityService where host is the computer on which the full-text catalog search service is installed and port is its port number. ■ User ID: The ID of a valid Oracle Business Intelligence user. ■ Password: The password of the user.

5. Click Finish.

17.11.4.4 Step 4: Creating the Data Source for Full-Text Catalog Search

Use the Secure Enterprise Search administration tool to configure the Oracle BI Presentation Catalog as a source that can be crawled and indexed. To configure the data source for the full-text catalog search: 1. Access the Secure Enterprise Search administration tool. 2. Select the Home tab, then the Sources tab.

3. In the Source Type list, select Oracle Fusion, then click Create.

17-36 System Administrators Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 4. On the Source Configuration tab, specify the following: ■ Name: Enter a name for the data source. ■ Configuration URL: The URL for the configuration file for the full-text catalog search, in the following format: http:host:portbisearchcrawleroracle.biee.search.BISearchableTreeObject ConfigFeed?forceInitialCrawl=true where host is the computer on which the full-text catalog search service is installed and port is its port number. ■ Authentication Type: The type of authentication for users. Select the default value of Native, which allows the full-text catalog search to handle authentication. ■ User ID: The ID of a valid Oracle Business Intelligence user. ■ Password: The password of the user. ■ Realm: Leave this blank. ■ Scratch Directory: Specify a temporary directory where Secure Enterprise Search can store temporary files. 5. On the Authorization tab, specify the following: ■ Authorization: Select ACLs Controlled by the Source. ■ HTTP endpoint for authorization: The URL for the full-text catalog search security service, in the following format: http:host:portbisearchcrawlerSecurityService where host is the computer on which the full-text catalog search service is installed and port is its port number. ■ User ID: The ID of a valid Oracle Business Intelligence user. ■ Password: The password of the user. ■ Business Component: Enter the following value: oracle.biee.search.BISearchableTreeObject ■ Display URL Prefix: The URL for the search functionality in Oracle BI EE, in the following format: http:host:portbisearchurlbuilder for Secure Enterprise Search 11.1.2 http:host:portbisearchurlbuilder for Secure Enterprise Search 11.2.1 or later where host is the computer on which Oracle BI Enterprise Edition is installed and port is its port number. 6. Click one of the following: ■ Click Create to automatically launch the schedule. ■ Click Create and Customize to perform any customizations, such as including additional documents to be processed for example, RTF documents, as described in the next step.

7. If you clicked Create and Customize, then on the Documents tab, add the RTF

Document document type and any other appropriate types to the Processed document types list.