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12.4 Managing Business Intelligence Components

The latest
release of Oracle Application Server, Oracle Application Server
10g, was designed to ease the overall management
burden by automating many management tasks for large-scale grid
computing deployment. These include:

Software provisioning, including installation, configuration,
cloning, patching, and upgrades

User provisioning, including security and identity management

Application management and monitoring

Workload management, including dynamic resource allocation and
failover notification

Systems management and monitoring

Oracle provides Oracle Enterprise Manager, a management tool and
framework, as part of every application server and Oracle database.
Management capabilities in Oracle Enterprise Manager include not only
generic monitoring of Oracle Application Server (e.g., CPU and memory
usage), but also extended support of specific BI components deployed
as part of Oracle Application Server. For example, configuration of
OracleAS Discoverer and OracleAS
Reports Services is performed via
Oracle Enterprise Manager. OracleAS Reports Services performance can
also be monitored, and job queues can be viewed and managed through
Oracle Enterprise Manager.

The web-based
Application Server
Control tool, accessible through Oracle Enterprise Manager, allows
you to view the Log Repository error logs. These logs can be
populated with warnings and errors generated by OracleAS Discoverer
and OracleAS Reports Server for debugging purposes. The Log Loader,
started through Application Server Control, initiates and populates
this Log Repository.

There are myriad ways to use Oracle Enterprise Manager to manage
OracleAS Discoverer; here are some examples:

Starting and stopping the OracleAS Discoverer Service

Enabling and disabling client-tier components

Selecting the locale for public connections

Enabling or disabling graphs in Discoverer Viewer and Discoverer
Portlet Provider

Managing connections for Discoverer Plus and Discoverer Viewer

Specifying the number of stylesheets to pool for Discoverer Viewer
and Discoverer Portlet Provider

Specifying a delay value for the query progress page in Discoverer
Viewer

Specifying the communications protocol for the middle tier for
Discoverer Plus

Specifying the maximum number of Discoverer Portlet Provider sessions
to pool

Starting and stopping Discoverer Servlets

Searching for and analyzing the log files

See Chapter 3 for more information about Oracle
Enterprise Manager.