Setting Defaults for Analyses in the Compound Layout Changing Dashboards Section Defaults

19 Configuring and Managing Agents 19-1 19 Configuring and Managing Agents If your organization licensed Oracle BI Delivers and if you have the appropriate privileges, then you can use the agents functionality as part of a default installation with no additional configuration. This chapter describes how agents are used, what affects agents, about advanced configuration settings that affect agents, managing device types for agents, and monitoring agent sessions. For information about using agents, see Delivering Content in Oracle Fusion Middleware Users Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition. This chapter includes the following topics: ■ Section 19.1, How Are Agents Used? ■ Section 19.2, How Do Antivirus Software and Privileges Affect Agents? ■ Section 19.3, Configuring Settings That Affect Agents ■ Section 19.4, Managing Device Types for Agents ■ Section 19.5, Monitoring Active Agent Sessions 19.1 How Are Agents Used? Agents deliver targeted analytics to users based on a combination of schedule and trigger event. Delivery can be by a variety of routes, for example to Dashboard Alerts or to e-mail. To create an agent, Oracle Business Intelligence users with the Create Agent privilege define the operations that the agent is to perform. Oracle BI Presentation Services packages information such as priority, delivery devices, and user, into a job, and tells Oracle BI Scheduler when to execute the job. For information, see What is Oracle BI Scheduler? in Oracle Fusion Middleware Scheduling Jobs Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Note: If you are migrating an Oracle Business Intelligence environment to a new system, then ensure that you also migrate the Oracle Business Intelligence repository file, the Oracle BI Presentation Catalog, and the Oracle BI Scheduler tables. The Oracle BI Scheduler tables are required for agents. See Section 8.5.6, Diagnosing Issues with Agents for information about diagnostics and log files for agents.