1-4 Installation Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence
complexity of Oracle Business Intelligence, and are especially targeted for demonstration, evaluation, and proof of concept use cases.
1.4.1.1 What is Installed
When you select the Simple Install type, Oracle Business Intelligence 11g Installer installs the binary files for the Oracle Business Intelligence components that you
specify.
1.4.1.2 What is Configured
When you select the Simple Install type, Oracle Business Intelligence 11g Installer applies default configuration settings for all the components that you choose to install.
To perform the installation, Oracle Business Intelligence 11g Installer prompts you for the location of the Middleware home.
For more information about installation locations, see Oracle Fusion Middleware Installation Planning Guide.
1.4.2 Enterprise Install
The Enterprise Install type enables you to install Oracle Business Intelligence components to create a new enterprise deployment, or to scale out an existing
enterprise deployment of Oracle Business Intelligence 11g. As a result, the Enterprise Install type enables you to specify several more configuration settings directory paths,
host names, port numbers, and so on than the Simple Install type.
1.4.2.1 What is Installed
The Enterprise Install type does one of the following, depending on which option you choose during the installation:
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New installation: Oracle Business Intelligence 11g Installer installs the Oracle Business Intelligence components that you select.
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Scale out an existing installation: Oracle Business Intelligence 11g Installer installs all Oracle Business Intelligence components that were installed on the primary
host computer of the cluster, which you must specify.
1.4.2.2 What is Configured
The Enterprise Install type does one of the following, depending on which option you choose during the installation:
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New installation: Oracle Business Intelligence 11g Installer configures the Oracle Business Intelligence components that you select and associates them with the
Middleware, Oracle, and WebLogic Server homes that you specify.
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Scale out an existing installation: Oracle Business Intelligence 11g Installer configures the same Oracle Business Intelligence components that were configured
on the primary host computer, which you must specify.
1.4.3 Software Only Install
