Contents

Title and Copyright Information

Preface

• Audience
• Documentation Accessibility
• Related Documents
• Conventions

New Features for Exalytics Machine

Part I Installation

1 Installation Overview

• 1.1 Installable Products
• 1.2 Oracle Exalytics Architecture
• 1.3 System Requirements and Certification

2 Installing Software on the Exalytics Machine

• 2.1 Before You Install Software on the Exalytics Machine
  • 2.1.1 Documents to Review
  • 2.1.2 Prerequisites for Installing on the Exalytics Machine
• 2.2 Installing the Software
  • 2.2.1 Step 1: Creating the User on the Operating System
  • 2.2.2 Step 2: Creating the Inventory for TimesTen
  • 2.2.3 Step 3: Downloading Oracle Files into the Directory Structure
  • 2.2.4 Step 4: Creating the Database Schemas
  • 2.2.5 Step 5: Editing the Properties File
  • 2.2.6 Step 6: Preparing to Run the Installation Scripts
  • 2.2.7 Step 7: Verifying the Checklist
  • 2.2.8 Step 8: Running the Scripts
  • 2.2.9 Step 9: Verifying the Installation
• 2.3 Troubleshooting the Installation and Configuration Processes
  • 2.3.1 Resolving Issues with the Installation
  • 2.3.2 Viewing Log Files
  • 2.3.3 Reinstalling Software on the Exalytics Machine
  • 2.3.4 Manually Setting the HardwareAcceleration MBean Attribute
  • 2.3.5 For More Information

3 Postinstallation Tasks

• 3.1 Installing and Uninstalling Oracle Business Intelligence Client Tools
• 3.2 Creating the boot.properties File
• 3.3 Starting and Stopping Components on the Exalytics Machine
• 3.4 Running the Daemon Configuration Scripts for TimesTen
• 3.5 Configuring Memory Settings on the Server
• 3.6 Instantiating the TimesTen In-Memory Database
• 3.7 Configuring the ODBC Connection from Oracle Business Intelligence to TimesTen
• 3.8 Mapping TimesTen Instances into the Physical Layer of the Oracle BI Repository
• 3.9 Installing and Configuring BI Composer for Oracle BI EE
• 3.10 Creating a DSN for IBM DB2 or Microsoft SQL Server
• 3.11 Configuring IBM DB2 to Support Multibyte Data
• 3.12 Configuring Sample Reports for Oracle BI Publisher
• 3.13 Changing the Default Password for SampleAppLite.rpd

4 Deinstalling Software on the Exalytics Machine

Part II System Management

5 System Management (Configuration, Diagnostics, and Monitoring)

6 Patching

• 6.1 What Files Can Be Patched?
• 6.2 Related Documents on Patching

7 Deploying Oracle Exalytics for High Availability

• 7.1 Requirements for High Availability
• 7.2 Diagram of High Availability
• 7.3 Configuring for High Availability
  • 7.3.1 Step 1: Preparing the First Exalytics Machine
  • 7.3.2 Step 2: Preparing the Second Exalytics Machine
  • 7.3.3 Step 3: Installing Oracle WebLogic Server
  • 7.3.4 Step 4: Installing Oracle Business Intelligence
  • 7.3.5 Step 5: Scaling Out the Existing BI Domain from the First Exalytics Machine
  • 7.3.6 Step 6: Installing and Configuring TimesTen
  • 7.3.7 Step 7: Scaling Out System Components to the Second Exalytics Machine
  • 7.3.8 Step 8: Configuring Shared Storage for Persistent Stores
  • 7.3.9 Step 9: Configuring the Front-End Load Balancer
• 7.4 Troubleshooting the Highly Available Deployment
  • 7.4.1 Connection Issues with the Oracle BI Server and TimesTen
  • 7.4.2 Client Installer Cannot Locate TimesTen Driver
  • 7.4.3 Oracle BI Server Does Not Fail Over to the TimesTen Instance
  • 7.4.4 Aggregates Are Not Present in Second Instance

8 Backup and Recovery

9 Disaster Recovery