Discoverer 10g & Oracle 11i Configuration Steps

does installing 10g Oracle Application Server Release 2 i.e. 10.1.2.0.2 itself is installing discoverer? what would be the URL to access discoverer then?

Yes Santosh,
when you install Application Sever 10.1.2.0.2 (With Middle Tier Option as BI & Forms) this will install Discoverer & rest other steps are configuring it with E-Business Suite . That’s why I mentioned in my previous post that Upgarding Discoverer is not supported but its New Install & Upgarde only EUL

Sorry I forgot to mention URL

its

http://hostname.domainname:port/discoverer/viewer

http://hostname.domainname:port/discoverer/plus

where hostname & domainnanme are machine name & domain name on which you installed 10g AS & port number is port you selected at install time defualt 7777

though you can change these hostname & port number to your desired value

Atul

Hi Atul,
Well done on the website!

I have installed 10.1.2.0.2 on the same physical server as my current 4i install. For the purpose of testing and parallel runs etc this was the only course of action I had open to me. Oracle recommend not to do this. Both are functioning fine at the moment with the 4i and 10g tables located in the same schema. I can’t fine out why Oracle warn against this (from Metalink etc).

Do you have any ideas?

Many thanks,
Derek

Derek,
first of all congarts for configuration.

I dobn’t see any document where Oarcle mention not to install discoverer 10g on same machine as discoverer 4i but they say you can’t share Oarcle_Home.

Could you please point me oarcle doc which say not to (or not recommended) to install 10g Discoverer on same host as on 4i discoverer .

Once again thanks for sharing this info with readers , It will really inspire them to go for Disco 10g R2 wiith Apps

Atul,

From
“Installing Oracle Application Server 10g with Oracle E-Business Suite Release 11i. Note:233436.1

Derek,
Thanks for pointing that out & docs for that.

I will also try to find reasoning behind Oracle’s recommendadtion that “Discoverer 4i and 10g be installed on separate physical servers”

Atul

Hi Atul,
Thanks for publishing a blog on Discoverer. DO you have any estimate on the activities performed during upgrade like:-
1. Migration of existing EUL to 10g

2. Regenration of business views

3. Import of Discoverer content using adupdeul.sh

4. Refresh Discoverer EUl

…etc

the size of my EUL Tbs is around 850 M.

Regards, VVS

Hi VVS ,
Is this from 3i or 4i ?

Hi Atul,
This is from 4i to 10g.
Also, I want to know how it is possible to maintain different URL’s for 4i and 10g, if we want to put two discoveres’s for one database, as I did not see anything in the xml file, which will facilitate the same.

Thanks in advance,
Regards, V V S

VVS ,
EUL upgrade should be around 1 hour or so (Depends on your server configuration as well).

You can have two different URL’s via Profile Options.

You have to set one URL at site level & other one at server level .

Raise your issues / doubts at forum http://teachMeOracle.com/forum dedicated to Apps DBA’s

hi atul
what is migration on db.

Abhi ,
Can you elaborate your question/doubt ?

Regards
Atul Kumar

HI Atul,
small doubt,I am upgading disco 4i to 10g with doc 313418.1.
i had done all the steps mentioned above up to changing profile options and all.
I am confused how to grant access on business areas to the users in Apps.
bcoz when i trying to access discoverer work books from apps itz telling invalid ID/PWD like..

what is the way to grant responsibilities on work books to application users…

Regards
Leenus

Hi,
PLEASE ANYONE TELL ME THE LOCATION OF “PDF FILES LOCATION ON MIDDLE TIER”

Regards,
Mahender.

Hi,
Please any one tell me the location of PDF FILES ON MIDDLE TIER

regards,
Mahender

which PDF files ?

Hi Atul,
You directed me from Application Server section to this discoverer section.
As shared in my previous post (AS section),
I am on 11.5.10 (9iAS)
I have created my EUL using Discoverer 10g.
But because of compatibility issue I am not able to use Discoverer Plus/Viewer with 10g EUL
Can you suggest what would be the steps?
I understand from your post that AS cannot be upgraded from 9iAS to 10g in Apps environment. Can you please elaborate?

Thanks again
Anand

11.5.10 by default comes with eul4 so install standalone 10g Discoverer on seprate oracle home and chnage tns in this oracle home pointing to your 11i database. and use disco URL using new 10g AS ORACLE_HOME . Check 10g Disco configurtaion with 11i metalink note for more information on how to do this .

Hi,

I want to learn discoverer.

I am having oracle 9i database and downloaded and installed OracleBITools10g from Oracle.i.e OracleBIDiscoverer Administrator and Oracle Discoverer Desktop, I don’t know how to configure it with my Oracle 9i Database and use it. Please any to help me?

Thanks
tkj

Hi Tkj,
I would say go for BI EE (Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition , Superseeding Disco) and to install server and related documentation at http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/bi_ee.html

hi Atul,

Thanks for the reply. I have a question, can i work configure Discoverer with my 9i oracle database and create EUL? otherwise should I have to have Oracle Apps , and on top of it only EUL can be created?

please help

thanks
tkj

TKJ,
You can use existing database and on top of that install discoverer server which you can use from disco client like OracleBITools and there is no need to install 11i in that case.

Installing BI server in existing database is advanced installation so I’ll suggest you install Oracle Application Server (10.1.2.0.2) with option as BI or stand alone Disco server , I am going to cover BI EE installation on this site in one or two weeks so stay tuned.

Atul

Hi All,

Where do i get MKS TOOLKIT. I am stuck with running adupdeul.sh

My apps is in UNIX and setup disco in win 2003.

Regards,
Ram

Hi Atul,

There are some steps (step 4 and above) in doc 313418.1 for .eex files. Are they necessary?

Yes these are

Hi Atul
We want to configure Discoverer.

Our current Architecture
11.5.10 CU2 with 10g R2 Database and 9iAS (1.1.2.2) Application server.

Which version of Discoverer we need to configure.

Could you pls help me.

When trying to login to Standalond Discoverer 10g as sysadmin, you get invalid username/password.Try loggin in as

sysadmin:System Administrator
password
SID

And the connection will go through.

Regards,

Jagdeep

Hi Atul & Team,

When you copy .dbc file from another discoverer home (instance) and make necessary changes as per the new instance, in case it is bad or not correct, is it necessary to bounce the discoverer services?
What services exactly we need to restart?
For example, opmnctl , etc..

Sincere Thanks.

Is Discoverer Plus in 10g same as Discoverer Designer present in the earlier version (4i)?

No. The bouncing of Discoverer services is not required. The connection is very much instant.

Hi Atul,
can we change the port configuration related to discoverer after installation?if yes please suggest the steps for manual port changing for discoverer 10g after installation.

@Siva

Yes, it is possible to change port related to discoverer after installation.

Check this

For changing discoverer port
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B14099_19/bi.1012/b13918/maint.htm#sthref388

For changing Application Server port
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B14099_19/core.1012/b13995/ports.htm#i1038959

Hi Atul and team,
We have discoverer version 10.1.2.1
and oracle database version 10.1.0.3.0-64bi
Now planning to upgrade oracle database to 11g ,which discoverer version will be compatible with oracle 11g.

Hi Atul and team,
is discoverer version 10.1.2.1
compatible with oracle database 11g

is discoverer version 10.1.2.1 compatible with
oracle database 11g version
if yes its k ,if not can you pls tell me the discoverer version compatible with oracle database 11g

We have an Oracel 9i database, can someone tell me what is the latest version of Oracle Discoverer we can use to connect to the Database??

We want to upgrade the current reporting server to Windows 2008, but are unsure if we install Discoverer on it, will it connect to the legacy 9i database???

Many Thanks
Neil

Hi Atul,

We are configuring DG for Ebiz 12.0.6 and Discoverer 10g, I would like to know what are the files or rather what are the directories need to be in sync for discoverer.

Kindly suggest.

Thanks
Ravi