About This Guide Getting Started

1 Introduction 1-1 1 Introduction This section covers the following topics: ■ Section 1.1, About This Guide ■ Section 1.2, Getting Started ■ Section 1.3, About This Product ■ Section 1.4, Understanding Applications, Inputs, Searches, and Connections ■ Section 1.5, About System Administration ■ Section 1.6, Integration with Key Oracle Technologies ■ Section 1.7, Oracle Imaging and Process Management Architecture

1.1 About This Guide

This guide provides instructions for administering the Oracle Imaging and Process Management Oracle IPM product software on Oracle WebLogic Server. The information contained in this document is subject to change as the product technology evolves and as hardware, operating systems, and third-party software are created and modified. In this document and other documents in this product set, the terms application, search , input, and connection are typically being used in reference to object definition types within the Oracle IPM product.

1.2 Getting Started

This guide assumes that Oracle IPM is already installed. For information on installing Oracle IPM and setting initial post-installation configuration options, see Oracle Fusion Middleware Installation Guide for Oracle Enterprise Content Management Suite. This section provides an overview to the product architecture. Subsequent sections detail security contexts, initial configuration steps, administration procedures, and reference material for administering Oracle IPM. After installing Oracle IPM and prior to configuring applications and other aspects of Oracle IPM, ensure the following: ■ If using Oracle Document Capture or Oracle Distributed Document Capture, ensure that it has been configured with the Oracle IPM 11g commit driver. ■ If installed on a Linux operating system, ensure that the GDFontpath values have been set. 1-2 Administrators Guide for Oracle Imaging and Process Management ■ Review the section on managing security to familiarize yourself with the security contexts within Oracle IPM, the levels of security within those contexts and how they will apply to users and groups. ■ Ensure that Oracle Content Server is installed and configured for use with Oracle IPM. See Oracle Fusion Middleware Installation Guide for Oracle Enterprise Content Management Suite for detailed information. ■ Obtain the necessary security, address, and port information to connect to a workflow server. ■ Obtain the necessary security, address, and port information to connect to an Oracle Content Server repository.

1.3 About This Product