Vertically Scaling Oracle Business Intelligence Horizontally Scaling Oracle Business Intelligence

5-6 System Administrators Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Perform these steps only if you are use server-side scripts from a previous release. To share Oracle BI Scheduler scripts: 1. Create network shares for the Oracle BI Scheduler scripts. The Oracle BI Scheduler servers must have read and write access to this share. 2. Copy the default and custom Oracle BI Scheduler scripts to the corresponding network shares created for the Oracle BI Scheduler scripts. 3. Update the SchedulerScriptPath and DefaultScriptPath elements of the Oracle BI Scheduler instanceconfig.xml file. You must update this file for each Oracle BI Scheduler component in the deployment. See Section 19.3.3.1, General Scheduler Configuration Settings That Affect Agents for more information about setting these two parameters.

5.5 Using Fusion Middleware Control to Scale System Components

You can use the Scalability tab of the Capacity Management page in Fusion Middleware Control to scale in or scale out the Oracle BI Server, Presentation Services, or JavaHost system components. You can follow the procedure described in this section to scale the system components both vertically on the same computer or horizontally on multiple computers. Figure 5–1 shows the Scalability tab of the Capacity Management page. Figure 5–1 Scalability Tab of Capacity Management Page in Fusion Middleware Control Before you begin this procedure, ensure that you are familiar with the information in Section 3.2, Using Fusion Middleware Control to Update Oracle Business Intelligence Configuration Settings. Scaling Your Deployment 5-7 To scale Oracle Business Intelligence system components: 1. Go to the Business Intelligence Overview page, as described in Section 2.2.2, Using Fusion Middleware Control to Manage Oracle Business Intelligence System Components. 2. Display the Scalability tab of the Capacity Management page. Click the Help button on the page to access the page-level help for its elements. 3. Click Lock and Edit Configuration to allow changes to be made. 4. Change the number of BI Servers, Presentation Servers, or JavaHosts using the arrow keys. If you have scaled out the Oracle BI System on a new host using the Enterprise Install option or the Configuration Assistant, then the number of system components configured on that host is zero. Add system components on the new host to complete the horizontal scale-out operation. To vertically scale the system components, increment the number of each component to be greater than 0 for a given host. 5. A default port range is assigned automatically for use by the components within the given Oracle instance. Note that Oracle BI Scheduler and Cluster Controller component processes in this instance are also assigned ports within this range, in addition to the BI Server, Presentation Services, and JavaHost component processes. Typically, you can keep the default port range. If necessary, enter a different range of ports available using the Port Range From and Port Range To arrows, or enter a value directly.

6. Optionally, for Listen Address, you can enter the DNS name or IP address for the

components in the given Oracle instance to use to listen for incoming connections. Typically, you can keep this element blank the default value to indicate that the components should listen on all available local interfaces.

7. Click Apply, then click Activate Changes.

8. Return to the Business Intelligence Overview page and click Restart.

The changes are automatically written to the corresponding configuration files, and the new processes join the cluster. For information about using methods in the Oracle BI Systems Management API to scale out components, see Chapter 22, Introducing the Oracle BI Systems Management API.

5.6 Validating That Your System Has Been Scaled Correctly

You can use Fusion Middleware Control and the Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Console to verify the status of the scaled-out components. This section contains the following topics: ■ Section 5.6.1, Using Fusion Middleware Control to View System Component Availability ■ Section 5.6.2, Using the Administration Console to View Managed Server Availability