Changes Affecting the Identity Store

1-44 Upgrade Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence ■ The catalog is scanned and the old security representations are converted to the new ones. Permissions and privileges that existed in 10g are migrated. Each user in the upgraded Oracle BI Presentation Catalog is referenced using a user name and a new GUID attribute. This attribute has a unique value for each user. The value of the GUID attribute is inherited from the identity store that Oracle BI EE uses. Therefore, if you later switch identity stores, you can follow the instructions in Oracle Fusion Middleware Security Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition to update GUIDs. ■ The upgrade process leaves the 10g catalog groups in the upgraded catalog and assigns the same privileges, access, and membership.

1.5.2.5 Upgrading an Existing SSL Environment

Configuration settings, such as SSL settings, are not carried over from the upgrade source. For information regarding configuring SSL, see SSL Configuration in Oracle Business Intelligence in Oracle Fusion Middleware Security Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition.

1.5.2.6 Upgrading an Existing SSO Environment

Configuration settings, such as single sign-on SSO settings, are not carried over from the upgrade source. For information regarding configuring SSO, see Enabling SSO Authentication in Oracle Fusion Middleware Security Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition.

1.5.3 Oracle BI Security: Highlighted New 11g Functionality to Leverage

You can use the following security features in Oracle BI EE 11g: ■ Integrated with Fusion Middleware Security Model ■ Direct Access to LDAP Servers ■ Simplified SSL Configuration ■ Improved Model for Managing Administrative Privileges ■ Repository Protection and Encryption For more information about new features, see New Features in Oracle Business Intelligence Security in Oracle Fusion Middleware Security Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition.

1.6 Moving from 11.1.1.3 to 11.1.1.5

Moving from Oracle BI EE 11.1.1.3 to 11.1.1.5 is different from upgrading from 10g to 11g. For example, instead of using Upgrade Assistant, you use various other tools, including one that is called the Patchset Assistant. Another important difference is that upgrading from 10g to 11g is called an out-of-place upgrade while upgrading to another 11g is called an in-place upgrade, because the upgrade operates on existing files. Moving from one 11g release to another 11g release is sometimes referred to as patching. The steps are described in detail in Oracle Fusion Middleware Patching Guide. A summary of the steps is included in Table 1–16 .