Contents

Title and Copyright Information

Preface

• Audience
• Documentation Accessibility
• Related Documents
• Conventions

1 Introduction to Oracle Real-Time Decisions Administration

• 1.1 What is System Administration in Oracle Real-Time Decisions?
  • 1.1.1 Typical Oracle Real-Time Decisions System Administration Tasks
  • 1.1.2 Oracle Real-Time Decisions as an Oracle Business Intelligence Component
  • 1.1.3 Oracle Real-Time Decisions Configured in a WebLogic Domain
  • 1.1.4 Which System Administration Tools Enable You to Manage Oracle Real-Time Decisions?
    • 1.1.4.1 Oracle Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control
    • 1.1.4.2 Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Console
    • 1.1.4.3 Oracle WebLogic Scripting Tool (WLST)
• 1.2 Topics of Interest in Other Guides
• 1.3 System Requirements and Certification

2 Main Administration Tools for Oracle Real-Time Decisions

• 2.1 Using Fusion Middleware Control to Manage Oracle Real-Time Decisions
  • 2.1.1 Logging into Fusion Middleware Control
  • 2.1.2 Administering Oracle RTD Using Fusion Middleware Control
• 2.2 Using Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Console to Manage Oracle Real-Time Decisions
• 2.3 General Administration Tasks
  • 2.3.1 Starting and Stopping Oracle WebLogic Server Instances
    • 2.3.1.1 Starting and Stopping the Administration Server
    • 2.3.1.2 Starting and Stopping Managed Servers
  • 2.3.2 Starting and Stopping Oracle RTD

3 Post-Installation Steps

• 3.1 Directory Structure of Oracle Real-Time Decisions Server-Side Files
• 3.2 Installing Oracle Real-Time Decisions Client-Side Files
  • 3.2.1 Installing Java Development Kit (JDK) for Oracle Real-Time Decisions Client Tools
• 3.3 Configuring Oracle Real-Time Decisions After Installation
• 3.4 About the Oracle RTD Runtime Environment
• 3.5 Populating the CrossSell Example Data (Optional)
• 3.6 Populating the DC_Demo Example Data (Optional)

4 Security for Oracle Real-Time Decisions

• 4.1 About the Security Framework
• 4.2 Getting Started with Security for Oracle RTD
  • 4.2.1 The Security Controls for Oracle RTD
  • 4.2.2 Key Authentication Elements
  • 4.2.3 Key Authorization Elements
• 4.3 Resource Types and Actions for Oracle RTD
  • 4.3.1 Default Oracle Real-Time Decisions Application Grants
  • 4.3.2 Examples of Oracle RTD Permissions
• 4.4 Administration Tools Used for Common Security-Related Tasks
• 4.5 Typical System Administration Tasks for Securing Oracle RTD
• 4.6 Managing Authentication for Oracle RTD
  • 4.6.1 Task Map: Configuring Authentication for Oracle RTD
  • 4.6.2 Understanding Oracle Real-Time Decisions Authentication
    • 4.6.2.1 Identity Stores and Authentication Providers
  • 4.6.3 Managing the Default Authentication Provider
    • 4.6.3.1 Managing Users and Groups
  • 4.6.4 Configuring a New Authentication Provider
    • 4.6.4.1 Configuring Oracle Internet Directory as an Authentication Provider
• 4.7 Managing Authorization and Privileges for Oracle RTD
  • 4.7.1 Task Map: Configuring Authorization for Oracle RTD
  • 4.7.2 Understanding the Authorization Process
    • 4.7.2.1 Policy Stores
  • 4.7.3 Configuring the Policy Store
    • 4.7.3.1 Configuring an LDAP-Based Policy Store
    • 4.7.3.2 Reassociating the Policy Store
  • 4.7.4 Managing the Policy Store Using Fusion Middleware Control
    • 4.7.4.1 Creating a New Application Role
    • 4.7.4.2 Creating an Application Role Like Another Application Role
    • 4.7.4.3 Editing an Application Role
    • 4.7.4.4 Deleting an Application Role
    • 4.7.4.5 Creating a New Application Policy
    • 4.7.4.6 Creating an Application Policy Like Another Application Policy
    • 4.7.4.7 Editing an Application Policy
    • 4.7.4.8 Deleting an Application Policy
• 4.8 Using SSL with Oracle RTD
• 4.9 Topics of Interest in Other Guides

5 Configuring Data Access for Oracle Real-Time Decisions

• 5.1 Creating Additional JDBC Data Sources in WebLogic
  • 5.1.1 Setting the Path to JDBC Jar Files for Your Data Source
  • 5.1.2 Creating a Data Source in WebLogic
  • 5.1.3 Adding the New Data Source to Oracle Real-Time Decisions
• 5.2 Testing a New Enterprise Data Source

6 Clustering and High Availability for Oracle Real-Time Decisions

7 Additional Configuration Settings and Starting Client Tools

• 7.1 Decision Center Browser Configuration
• 7.2 Accessing Oracle Real-Time Decisions Client Tools
  • 7.2.1 Accessing Decision Studio
  • 7.2.2 Accessing Decision Center
  • 7.2.3 Accessing Load Generator

8 Production Deployment of Oracle Real-Time Decisions

9 Command Line Deployment of Inline Services

• 9.1 Deploying the Inline Service

10 Setting Up and Using Model Snapshots

• 10.1 Overview of Setting Up and Using Model Snapshots
• 10.2 Model Snapshot Tables Schema
• 10.3 Configuring the Model Snapshot Tables
• 10.4 Populating and Clearing the Model Snapshot Tables
• 10.5 Creating Reports from the Model Snapshot Data
  • 10.5.1 Counts by Choice Query
  • 10.5.2 Top Six Predictive Attributes Query
  • 10.5.3 Difference Between Expected and Actual Counts Query
• 10.6 Handling Partitions
• 10.7 Tuning the Model Snapshot Process

11 Performance Monitoring

• 11.1 Setting Performance Monitoring Parameters
• 11.2 Viewing Common Performance Monitoring Snapshot Values
• 11.3 CSV File Contents
• 11.4 XLS File Contents
• 11.5 Switching Off Authentication and Authorization

12 Backup and Recovery of Oracle Real-Time Decisions

13 Managing Oracle Real-Time Decisions

• 13.1 Accessing the Oracle Real-Time Decisions MBeans
• 13.2 About JMX MBean Operations and Attributes
• 13.3 MBeans for Oracle Real-Time Decisions Cluster-Level Management
  • 13.3.1 About OracleRTD > SDManagement > SDClusterPropertyManager
  • 13.3.2 About OracleRTD > SDClusterPropertyManager > Misc
  • 13.3.3 About OracleRTD > SDClusterPropertyManager > Cluster
  • 13.3.4 About OracleRTD > SDClusterPropertyManager > Deployment
  • 13.3.5 About OracleRTD > SDCluster > SDManagement
• 13.4 MBeans for Oracle Real-Time Decisions Member-Level Management
  • 13.4.1 About OracleRTD > SDManagement > SDPropertyManager
  • 13.4.2 About OracleRTD > SDPropertyManager > Performance Monitoring
  • 13.4.3 About OracleRTD > SDPropertyManager > Misc
  • 13.4.4 About OracleRTD > Server > DecisionService
  • 13.4.5 About OracleRTD > Server > SDManagement
  • 13.4.6 About OracleRTD > Server > BatchAgent
  • 13.4.7 About OracleRTD > Server > BatchManager
  • 13.4.8 About OracleRTD > Server > BatchManager > Proxy > BatchManagerProxy
• 13.5 MBeans for Managing Inline Services
  • 13.5.1 About OracleRTD > SDManagement > InlineServiceManager
  • 13.5.2 About OracleRTD > InlineServiceManager > [Inline Service.Deployment State]
  • 13.5.3 Invoking Maintenance Operations
• 13.6 MBeans for Deployment States
  • 13.6.1 About OracleRTD > SDManagement > DeploymentStates
  • 13.6.2 About OracleRTD > Deployment States > [State]
• 13.7 MBeans for Managing Learning Services
  • 13.7.1 About OracleRTD > Server > LearningService
  • 13.7.2 About OracleRTD > Server > LearningService > Proxy > LearningServiceProxy
  • 13.7.3 About OracleRTD > Learning Server > [Study]
  • 13.7.4 About OracleRTD > Study > [Model.Study]
• 13.8 Post-Deployment Management of Inline Services
• 13.9 System Properties

A System Log and Configuration Files

• A.1 Searching and Viewing Server-Side Log Files
• A.2 Configuring Oracle RTD Server-Side Log Files
• A.3 Log Files
  • A.3.1 Main Oracle RTD Log Files
  • A.3.2 Log Files for Oracle RTD Client Tools
  • A.3.3 Server-Side Log Files
  • A.3.4 Eclipse Log File
• A.4 Configuration Files

B Upgrading Oracle Real-Time Decisions