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Discoverer 11g for Oracle eBusiness SuitePartnering for Sucess
October 2011
Thiru V. SadagopanPraveen Katari
Infrastructure Managed Services
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Confidentiality Agreement
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Primary Contact:
Bill Saltys, VP Business Development and Operations
Email: [email protected]: (978) 835‐3818 (M)
Apps Associates LLC40 Nagog Park, Suite 104Acton, MA 01726USA
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Agenda
• Discoverer Components
• Documentation
• Accessing Discoverer
• Enterprise Manager Console
• New features in Discoverer 11g
• Upgrading to Discoverer 11g
• Installing Discoverer 11g
• Weblogic Server in Discoverer 11g
• Status/Start/Stop from OS
• EM console in detail
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Discoverer Components
• EUL – metadata
• Administrator – build and administer EUL
• Plus/Desktop – create and run workbooks
• Viewer – Run reports
Source: http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E17904_01/bi.1111/b40107/overview.htm
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Discoverer Architecture
Source: http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E17904_01/bi.1111/b40107/overview.htm
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Discoverer Architecture
• Workbooks – stores reports and charts
• EUL – customized, simpler view of the data
• BI data – source data to analyze – EBS tables in this context
• Catalog, Workspaces – for OLAP
Source: http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E17904_01/bi.1111/b40107/overview.htm
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Documentation
• http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E12839_01/install.1111/e12003/claqi.htm Quick Installation Guide for Oracle Portal, Forms, Reports and
Discoverer (11gR1)
• http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E17904_01/bi.1111/b40107/toc.htm Configuration guide for Discoverer 11gR1
• http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/discoverer.html Additional documentation for Admin guide, etc
• Note 1074326.1 Using Discoverer 11g with EBS
• Note 313418.1 Using Discoverer 10g with EBS
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Accessing Discoverer
• Discoverer Home page http://monitor:<port>
• Discoverer Plus http://monitor:<port>/discoverer/plus
• Discoverer Viewer http://monitor:<port>/discoverer/viewer
• Discoverer Administrator Edition Start‐Programs‐.. On PC
• Discoverer User Edition Start‐Programs‐.. On PC
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EM Console
• Application Server Console http://monitor:<port>
• Performance Monitoring
• Minor customizations Look & feel, JVM, PDF memory sizing, etc
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• Apps Mode EUL Leverages EBS FND security via users & responsibilities
• Discoverer Administrator Manages access to Business Areas
• Can be SSO enabled with OID
Security
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New features in Discoverer 11gR1
Refer to Config guide Section 1.2• Infrastructure uptake
Better integration with latest JRE, SSO, Enterprise Manager
• Enhanced Viewer navigation Improvements to page navigation in Viewer
• Discoverer Web Services
• Manageability & Diagnosis
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• If existing EUL is from 10.1.2 no need to upgrade EUL; 11gR1 uses same EUL Install Discoverer 11gR1 with Weblogic server 10.3.4.0
and configure dbs/tnsnames for EBS connectivity
• If EUL is pre‐10.1.2, then perform auto‐upgrade from new 11gR1 home Install Discoverer 11gR1 with Weblogic server 10.3.4.0
and configure dbs/tnsnames for EBS connectivity
Run auto‐upgradeo $ORACLE_HOME/bin/eulapi ‐CONNECT <EUL User>/<Password>@<db> ‐AUTO_UPGRADE
Upgrading to Discoverer 11gR1
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Installing Discoverer 11gR1 for EBS
• Install Discoverer 11gR1 with Weblogic server 10.3.4.0 and configure dbs/tnsnames for EBS connectivity
• Create Schema in EBS database; Create EUL
• Apply EBS patch to obtain BI Discoverer files; set profile options and run AutoConfig
• Regenerate Business Views on EBS
• Grant rights and privileges; Import eex files
• Refresh Business areas against EBS data, from Discoverer server
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Weblogic Server in Discoverer 11gR1
Source: http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E12839_01/install.1111/e12003/claqi.htm
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• Install Weblogic server and Middleware home
• Install Discoverer 11gR1 Reference Weblogic server home
Create Weblogic domain for Discoverer
Specify Oracle Home for software install
Specify Oracle Instance locationo Discoverer runs from here; config files here
Installing Discoverer 11gR1 for EBS
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Checking Status ‐ Discoverer 11gR1
• Environment• MW_HOME=/u01/app/oradisco/product/Middleware
• DOMAIN_HOME=/u01/app/oradisco/product/Middleware/user_projects/domains/we
• btest_domain
• WL_HOME=/u01/app/oradisco/product/Middleware/wlserver_10.3
• ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/oradisco/product/Middleware/WEBTEST_AS
• ORACLE_INSTANCE=/u01/app/oradisco/product/Middleware/WEBTEST_INSTAS
• PATH=$WLS_HOME/server/bin:$DOMAIN_HOME/bin:$ORACLE_INSTANCE/bin:$PATH
• Status• [oradisco@LinuxBIdb bin]$ opmnctl status
• Processes in Instance: WEBTEST_INSTAS
• ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐+‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐+‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐+‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
• ias‐component | process‐type | pid | status
• ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐+‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐+‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐+‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
• emagent_WEBTEST_INSTAS | EMAGENT | 17808 | Alive
• Discoverer_WEBTEST_INSTAS | PreferenceServer | 17807 | Alive
• Discoverer_WEBTEST_INSTAS | ServicesStatus | 17806 | Alive
• webcache1 | WebCache ‐ admin | 17805 | Alive
• webcache1 | WebCache | 17804 | Alive
• ohs1 | OHS | 17803 | Alive
• [oradisco@LinuxBIdb bin]$
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Start / Stop‐ Discoverer 11gR1
• Stop
Oracle Instance $ORACLE_INSTANCE/bin/opmnctl stopall
Weblogic Managed Servers $DOMAIN_HOME/bin/stopManagedWebLogic.sh WLS_DISCO managed_server_name admin_url username password
Node Manager
Weblogic Administration $DOMAIN_HOME/bin/stopWeblogic.sh username password admin_url
• Start
Weblogic Administration nohup sh $DOMAIN_HOME/bin/startWebLogic.sh ‐Dweblogic.management.username=<weblogic user> ‐Dweblogic.management.password=<weblogic user password> > <logfilename> &
Node Manager nohup sh $WL_HOME/server/bin/startNodeManager.sh > startNodeManager.log &
Weblogic Managed Servers nohup sh $DOMAIN_HOME/bin/startManagedWebLogic.sh WLS_DISCO http://<discovererhostname>:<port> > <logfilename> &
Oracle Instance$ORACLE_INSTANCE/bin/opmnctl startall
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EM Console
• Application Server Console http://monitor:<port>
• Performance Monitoring
• Minor customizations Look & feel, JVM, PDF memory sizing, etc
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Open Q & A
Contact Information:Apps Associates LLC
Bill Saltys : (M) 978 835 3818VP Business [email protected](M) 978 835 3818
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