Overview of the Upgrade Process

4-2 Publishing Reports to the Web with Oracle Reports Services Upgrading Oracle Reports using Upgrade Assistant involves the following steps: 1. Specifying an operation, such as Upgrading the middle tier instance, Upgrading metadata repository, or Verifying the instance. The Upgrade Middle Tier Instance option is selected by default. 2. Specifying the Source Home. 3. Specifying the Destination Instance. 4. Specifying the details of the WebLogic Server.

5. Specifying an Upgrade option. The Stop source components before upgrade

option is selected by default. 6. Examining the components. The Upgrade Assistant tool provides a list of the components that are already examined and ready for upgrade. 7. Reviewing the settings and choices before proceeding with the upgrade. The Upgrade Assistant tool displays the summary of the middle-tier upgrade to be performed in the Upgrade Summary screen. 8. Clicking the Upgrade button on the Upgrade Summary screen completes the upgrade process. 4.3 What is Upgraded? The following Oracle Reports Components and elements are upgraded to the new Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g Release 1 11.1.1 environment. ■ Configuration files for Reports Runtime components like rwbuilder, rwrun, rwclient, and in-process server. ■ All the Reports Servers created in 10g instance are created and migrated to 11g instance. ■ Reports Bridge created in 10g instance is created and migrated to 11g instance. ■ All the dependent Reports components are migrated to 11g instance. ■ Registry entries in 10g instance are migrated to 11g instance on windows platform. Perform Any Required Post-Upgrade Manual Steps for Each Middle Tier The Upgrade Assistant automates many of the upgrade tasks, but there are cases where you must manually modify the configuration settings after running the Upgrade Assistant. Use Upgrade Assistant to Verify Upgraded Environment The Upgrade Assistant provides a feature that will verify the upgraded environment to make sure specific components and URLs are functional. Note: For more information on upgrading Oracle Reports using Upgrade Assistant, see Task 6: Use the Upgrade Assistant to Upgrade the Required Schemas and Middle Tiers in Oracle Fusion Middleware Upgrade Guide for Oracle Portal, Forms, Reports, and Discoverer. Table 4–1 Cont. Upgrade Process Overview Step Description Upgrading Oracle Reports 4-3

4.4 Summary of the Upgraded Files

Table 4–2 summarizes Oracle Reports files, including the configuration files, which are upgraded during the upgrade process, as described in Table 4–1 . Table 4–2 Upgraded Oracle Reports Files 11g Target FIle Name 11g Target Configuration Path Upgrade Modification stand_alone_ server_ name.conf ORACLE_ INSTANCEconfigReportsServerCo mponentserver_ namerwserver.conf Migration of Standalone Server configuration. Exception: rwsec element is not migrated. in-process_ server_ name.conf DOMAIN_ HOMEconfigfmwconfigservers WLS_SERVER_ NAMEapplicationsreports_ versionconfigurationrwserv er.conf Migration of configuration for in-process server. Exception: rwsec element is not migrated. rwnetwork.conf J2SE: ORACLE_ INSTANCEconfigReportsServerCo mponentserver_ namerwnetwork.conf J2SE: ORACLE_ INSTANCEconfigReportsToolsCom ponentReportsToolsrwnetwork.c onf J2SE: ORACLE_ INSTANCEconfigReportsBridgeCo mponent;bridge_ namerwnetwork.conf J2EE: DOMAIN_ HOMEconfigfmwconfigservers WLS_SERVER_ NAMEapplicationsreports_ versionconfigurationrwnet work.conf Migration of network configuration to Standalone Server, Reports Bridge, Reports tools and In-process Server. Exception : Channel and port attributes in multicast element are not migrated. xmlpds.conf J2SE: ORACLE_ INSTANCEconfigReportsServerCo mponentserver_ namexmlpds.conf J2SE: ORACLE_ INSTANCEconfigReportsToolsCom ponentReportsToolsxmlpds.conf J2EE: DOMAIN_ HOMEconfigfmwconfigservers WLS_SERVER_ NAMEapplicationsreports_ versionconfigurationxmlpds .conf Migration of configuration to Standalone Server, Reports tools and In-process Server.