Fusion Middleware Control What System Administration Tools Manage Oracle Business Intelligence?

Introduction to Oracle Business Intelligence System Administration 1-9 Fusion Middleware Control also provides access to Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Console, where you monitor and manage Oracle Business Intelligence Java components. Fusion Middleware Control is available only if the Administration Server is running, as described in Section 4.2, Starting the Oracle Business Intelligence System. For more information, see Chapter 2, Managing Oracle Business Intelligence.

1.4.2 Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Console

Oracle WebLogic Server is a Java EE application server that supports the deployment of Oracle Business Intelligence Java components in a robust, secure, highly available, and scalable environment. For more information, see Chapter 2, Managing Oracle Business Intelligence. Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Console enables you to monitor and manage a WebLogic Server domain. Its capabilities include the following: ■ Monitoring the health and performance of JEE servers ■ Configuring WebLogic server domains ■ Stopping and starting JEE servers ■ Viewing JEE server logs ■ Managing user populations in the LDAP Server of the Oracle WebLogic Server For more information, see Oracle Technology Network at the following location: http:www.oracle.comtechnologyindex.html .

1.4.3 Oracle Process Manager and Notification Server OPMN Tool

OPMN is a process management tool that manages the Oracle Business Intelligence system components. OPMN supports both local and distributed process management, automatic process recycling, and the communication of process state up, down, starting, and stopping. OPMN detects process unavailability and automatically restarts processes. OPMN provides the following functionality to manage the Oracle Business Intelligence system components: ■ A command-line interface for advanced users to control Oracle Fusion Middleware components. For information, see Section 4.5, Alternative Methods for Starting and Stopping System Components. ■ Automatic restart of processes when they become unresponsive or terminate unexpectedly. ■ An integrated way to manage Oracle Fusion Middleware components. Note: Fusion Middleware Control is the recommended approach for starting, stopping, and viewing the status of components. However, following a restart on Linux you must use the opmnctl start, or startall command. OPMN is suitable only for advanced users. 1-10 System Administrators Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition

1.4.4 Oracle Weblogic Scripting Tool WLST

The Oracle Weblogic Scripting Tool WLST is a command-line scripting environment for advanced administrator use, which enables you to programmatically administer Oracle Business Intelligence. The WLST scripting environment is based on the Java scripting interpreter Jython. You can use this tool interactively on the command line, in batch scripts that are supplied in a file Script Mode, where scripts invoke a sequence of WLST commands without requiring your input, or embedded in Java code. You can extend the WebLogic scripting language by following the Jython language syntax. For more information, see: ■ Section 22.2, Accessing Oracle BI Systems Management API Methods ■ Oracle Fusion Middleware WebLogic Scripting Tool Command Reference

1.4.5 Oracle BI Administration Tool

The Oracle BI Administration Tool enables you to manage the metadata repository. For information, see Oracle Fusion Middleware Metadata Repository Builders Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition.

1.4.6 Job Manager

The Job Manager is a Windows tool that is the interface with the Oracle BI Scheduler. Through Job Manager, you can connect to, start and stop the Oracle BI Scheduler, add and manage jobs, and manage job instances. For information, see Oracle Fusion Middleware Scheduling Jobs Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition.

1.5 Working with the Sample Application

As part of the Simple Installation type, Oracle Business Intelligence is configured with a simplified Sample Application. This application is often referred to as SampleApp Lite. You can download and configure a more robust sample application. Instructions for this configuration are available at the following location: http:www.oracle.comtechnetworkmiddlewarebi-enterprise-editi onoverviewindex.html See About the SampleApp.rpd Demonstration Repository in Oracle Fusion Middleware Metadata Repository Builders Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition for information about the sample repository that is provided with Oracle Business Intelligence.

1.6 Oracle BI Publisher Integration

This guide assumes that Oracle BI EE and BI Publisher have been installed and configured to run as fully integrated components at your organization. If this is not the case, then some mentions of BI Publisher in this guide might not be applicable to you. For information about running BI Publisher, see Oracle Fusion Middleware Users Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher.

1.7 Topics of Interest in Other Guides

Some topics that might be of interest to system administrators are covered in other guides. Table 1–3 lists these topics and indicates where to go for more information.