Installing OracleAS 10g with the Business Intelligence and Forms Install Option

Testing the OracleAS 10g Business Intelligence and Forms Installation

Business Intelligence and Forms:
Enables personalization of applications, use of forms-based applications, and deployment of Decision Support System and Web-based reports. Includes all Oracle Application Server 10g components available in the Portal and Wireless install type. This middle-tier option requires OracleAS 10g Infrastructure Install.

Completed the Pre Installation Tasks module

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS/ES Version 2.1

Log in to the Linux box as user oracle and mount the Oracle Application Server 10g Release 9.0.4 CD. Change directory to the CD and execute the script runInstaller.

In the Oracle Universal Installer Welcome window click Next.

In the Destination section, specify the name as bi and change the path to /home/oracle/bi. Click Next.

Select Oracle Application Server 10g. Click Next.

Select Business Intelligence and Forms. Click Next.

This option will install Oracle Discoverer, Personalization, Reports and Forms Service. This option also installs and configures Portal and Wireless and the J2EE and Web Cache install options. This option requires an Infrastructure install.

Preview the middle-tier installation steps that will be performed. Click Next.

Verify that your computer meets all the minimum preinstallation requirements that are listed in this step. Select the Root Privileges check box so that you can perform tasks that need root privileges. Click Next.

Select OracleAS Portal, OracleAS Wireless, OracleAS Discoverer, OracleAS Personalization, OracleAS Reports Services and OracleAS Forms Services. These components along with Oracle HTTP server, Web Cache and Containers for J2EE will be configured automatically after the installation is over. Click Next.

Specify the Host and the Port of the Oracle Internet Directory server to which you want to register this middle-tier instance.

Host: Specify the hostname of the computer where the infrastructure OID server is running.

Port: Specify the port at which Oracle Internet Directory is listening.

Click Next.

Specify the Username and the Password to log into the Oracle Internet directory Server. Click Next.

If the Oracle Internet Directory server has multiple Identity Management Realms then another field Realm is displayed. Specify the Identity Management Realm against which user is authenticated.

Retain the default Database Connection String. Click Next.

Specify the SMTP outgoing mail server that will be used by the OracleAS Reports Services. Click Next.

Note: It is not a compulsory value, you can leave this field empty but you cannot distribute reports via e-mail untill this information is configured.

Specify the instance name as bi. Set and confirm the ias_admin password. The ias_admin user is the administrative user for the specified instance. The password must have a minimum of 5 characters and should contain at least one numeral. For example: welcome1

Click Next.

This screen displays all the software components that will be installed. Verify the selections and click Install.

This screen shows the progress of the installation.

When the Setup Privileges window appears, open a new terminal window and execute the script as shown in the next step.

You must execute root.sh as the root user. Enter the following commands:

su
<rootpassword>
cd /home/oracle/bi
./root.sh

Note: Keep the default path and when promted "Overwrite it?", do not overwrite the files.

Switch back to the Setup Privileges window and click OK.

This screen shows the progress of the configuration assistants that you had selected during the installation process. Details of the execution of the configuration assistants are displayed in the Details section.

Your installation is now complete. The screen displays some important information about the installation that you must remember.

Click Exit to close Oracle Universal Installer.

Click Yes to exit.

Open your browser window and enter the following URL:

http://<hostname>.<domainname>:<port>/

For example: http://edrsr23p1.us.oracle.com:1814/

Note: If you are installing BI&Forms just after the installing infrastructure the port will be 1811.

You log in as the ias_admin user. Enter ias_admin in the User Name field and welcome1 as the Password and click OK.

You have just logged in to Oracle Enterprise Manager. You will see that you have one stand-alone instance for your Business Intelligence database bi. Click the Infrastructure instance bi.<hostname>.<domainname>

Now you can view all the components associated with the bi instance.