System Requirements and Certification

1-12 System Administrators Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 2 Managing Oracle Business Intelligence 2-1 2 Managing Oracle Business Intelligence This chapter introduces management and configuration of Oracle Business Intelligence using Oracle Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control, Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Console, and the Fusion Middleware Control MBean Browser. The chapter includes the following topics: ■ Section 2.1, Why Use Fusion Middleware Control and WebLogic Server Administration Console? ■ Section 2.2, Centrally Managing Oracle Business Intelligence Components Using Fusion Middleware Control ■ Section 2.3, Centrally Managing Oracle Business Intelligence Java Components Using the Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Console ■ Section 2.4, Managing Oracle Business Intelligence JMX MBeans Using the Fusion Middleware Control MBean Browser 2.1 Why Use Fusion Middleware Control and WebLogic Server Administration Console? You use Fusion Middleware Control and WebLogic Server Control Administration Console to centrally manage the Oracle Business Intelligence system. These Web-based tools support the most common system administration tasks for Oracle Business Intelligence. For more information, see Section 1.2, Getting Started with Managing Oracle Business Intelligence. Fusion Middleware Control enables you to manage system components by performing tasks such as monitoring status, starting and stopping processes, scaling out, resolving issues, and configuring components. You can also manage some aspects of Java components. For example, you can monitor their status and start and stop them. WebLogic Server Administration Console enables you to monitor status and configure security for Java components. For information, see Chapter 1, Introduction to Oracle Business Intelligence System Administration. Locking Mechanism Enables Multiple Concurrent Administrators With large deployments, you might have multiple administrators accessing the system concurrently to view the state of the system while other administrators might want to make configuration changes. Fusion Middleware Control and Oracle WebLogic Server prevent concurrent updates of the same configuration settings by multiple administrators by using a locking mechanism that allows only one administrator to make changes at any one time. 2-2 System Administrators Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition

2.2 Centrally Managing Oracle Business Intelligence Components Using Fusion Middleware Control

You can use Fusion Middleware Control to centrally manage, monitor, and configure Oracle Business Intelligence system components for example, the Oracle BI Server, Oracle BI Presentation Services, and Oracle BI Scheduler. You can also use Fusion Middleware Control to manage the Administration Server and Managed Servers. This section contains the following topics: ■ Section 2.2.1, Logging into Fusion Middleware Control to Manage Oracle Business Intelligence ■ Section 2.2.2, Using Fusion Middleware Control to Manage Oracle Business Intelligence System Components ■ Section 2.2.3, Using Fusion Middleware Control to Monitor Status and Start and Stop Oracle Business Intelligence Java Components ■ Section 2.2.4, About the Navigation Tree in Fusion Middleware Control For more information about Fusion Middleware Control and how to use it, see Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrators Guide.

2.2.1 Logging into Fusion Middleware Control to Manage Oracle Business Intelligence

To log in to Fusion Middleware Control, open a Web browser and enter the Fusion Middleware Control URL, in the following format: http:hostname.domain:portem The port number is the number of the Administration Server, and the default port number is 7001. Fusion Middleware Control is available only if the Administration Server is running, as described in Section 4.2, Starting the Oracle Business Intelligence System. Note: Multiple administrators using the same administrator account could unknowingly make concurrent updates of the same configuration settings. It is therefore recommended that multiple administrator users do not share the same administrator account. Note: You might encounter display problems when using Internet Explorer 8 with Fusion Middleware Control. For example, scroll bars might be missing on the Log Messages tab of the Diagnostics page, even when the bars are required to see all the text. To work around this issue, ensure that Compatibility View mode is turned off for the browser. To do so: 1. From the Tools menu, select Internet Options. On the Advanced tab in the Browsing section, ensure that Automatically recover from page layout errors with Compatibility View is not checked. 2. From the Tools menu, select Compatibility View Settings. Ensure that Display intranet sites in Compatibility View and Display all websites in Compatibility View are not checked.