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Copyright 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

BI Publisher Server:

Administration and Security


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Objectives

After completing this lesson, you should be able to: Describe BI Publisher administration tasks

Configure data sources

Identify BI Publisher supported security models

Configure security settings

Manage user roles and permissions

Configure delivery options

Configure the Scheduler

Manage the runtime configuration

Configure the integration settings for BI Presentation

Services


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Administration Page

The Administration page enables you to manage various tasks

for configuring BI Publisher settings.


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Data Sources

BI Publisher supports retrieving data from a variety of datasources. You can create connections with any one of the data

sources.


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Setting Data Sources: JNDI

JNDI connection pool is the recommended data source setup.


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Setting Data Sources: JDBC


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Setting Data Sources: Files



Setting Data Sources: LDAP

BI Publisher supports queries against Lightweight DirectoryAccess protocol (LDAP) data sources.



Setting Data Sources: OLAP

BI Publisher supports Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)queries against your OLAP data sources.



Viewing or Updating a Data Source



BI Publisher Security Model: Security Center



BI Publisher: Supported Security Models

The Security Configuration section allows you to select thesuitable security model.



BI Publisher: Oracle Fusion Middleware Security

Model



Fusion Middleware Security for BI Publisher:

Default Users

Two default users are defined during installation: AdministratorUser

BISystemUser



Fusion Middleware Security for BI Publisher:

Default Users

The default user is preconfigured with these groups: Administrators

BIAdministrators

This example indicates

that the default user,weblogic, is

preconfigured with

Administrator and

BIAdministrator groups.



Default Users:

BISystemUser Account

JDBC data source connecting to the Oracle BI EE Server: Is preconfigured to use the installed Oracle BI EE Server

Uses the BISystemUser account



Administration Configurations by Utilizing

BISystemUser Account

Integration with Oracle BI Presentation Services:



Fusion Middleware Security:

Default Groups

There are three default groups. Additional groups can be addedby using the Oracle WebLogic Administration Console.




Default Roles

The default groups and users are preconfigured with defaultroles that grant these users certain privileges. They are:

BISystem

BIAdministrator

BIAuthor BIConsumer




Default Publisher Permissions by Default Role

BIAdministrator

oracle.bi.publisher.administerServer

BIAuthor

oracle.bi.publisher.developDataModel

oracle.bi.publisher.developReport

BIConsumer

oracle.bi.publisher.runReportOnline

oracle.bi.publisher.scheduleReport

oracle.bi.publisher.accessReportOutput

oracle.bi.publisher.accessExcelReportAnalyzer

oracle.bi.publisher.accessOnlineReportAnalyzer




BIAdministrator Role




BIAuthor Role




BIConsumer Role



BI Publisher Roles and Permissions

The preconfigured roles and permissions for the authenticateduser appears on this page.



BI Publisher Folder Permissions


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BI Publisher Report Object Permissions


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Digital Signature:

Overview

BI Publisher supports digital signatures on PDF outputdocuments.

Digital signatures enable you to verify the authenticity of

the documents that you send and receive.

BI Publisher can access your digital ID file from a central,secure location, and at run time sign the PDF output with

the digital ID.


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Registering a Digital Signature

Adding a digital signature to the user role:


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Practice 8-1 and 8-2: Overview

This practice covers the following topics: Defining a file data source

Reviewing the roles assigned to your user ID


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Delivery Options


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Delivery: Delivery Configuration

Use the Delivery Configuration page to set general propertiesfor email deliveries from BI Publisher, and for defining your SSL

certificate file.


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Delivery: Print or Fax

Printing is only supported through Internet Printing Protocol (IPP).


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Delivery: Printing PDF

PDF printing:


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Delivery: Email

Email option:


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Delivery: WebDAV

WebDAV option:


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Delivery: HTTP Server

HTTP Server option:


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Delivery: FTP Server

FTP Server option:


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Delivery: CUPS Server

CUPS Sever option:


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Delivery

Channels

Quartz Tables ESS Tables

Scheduled

Job Q

Report Q

Delivery

Q(s)

BIP System

Topic

Scheduled

Job

Email

Printer

Fax

Repository

CUPS

File | FTP | Web Folder

Report Processor

FAX

Processor

Print

Processor

Email

Processor

FTP

Processor

File

Processor

WebDAV

Processor

ESS SchedulerQuartzScheduler

Job Processor (Normal Job / Bursting Job)

System Maintenance: Scheduling

Architecture Overview


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BI Publisher Scheduler

Process Flow

Submit Job

Job Processor

Bursting Engine

FO Report Processor

Delivery Processors

BI Publisher System Topic

Bursting Engine Listener

Batch Job Process

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4

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Admin

Server

Managed

Server

Job Processor

Report Processor

Email Processor

FTP Processor

File Processor

Print Processor

WebDav Processor

Fax Processor

Job Processor

Report Processor

Email Processor

FTP Processor

File Processor

Print Processor

WebDav Processor

Fax Processor

Repository

JMS

Queues

& Topic

Email

Printer

Fax

Repository

JNDI

Quartz Table

Managed

Server

System Maintenance: Scheduling

Clustering Example


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Scheduler Configuration:

Overview

BI Publisher Scheduler Configuration page:


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Scheduler Diagnostics:

Overview

The Scheduler Diagnostics page provides the runtime status ofthe Scheduler.


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Scheduler Diagnostics:

Overview

The Scheduler Diagnostics page provides information on thefollowing components:

JMS

Cluster

Database Quartz


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Runtime Configuration:

Overview

The Runtime Configuration page enables you to set runtimeproperties at the server level.


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Setting Runtime Properties

Many of the Runtime propertiesfor BI Publisher are shown here.


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Defining Font Mappings

BI Publisher hasafont mapping feature to map the fonts inRTF and PDF templates to the target fonts in published

documents.


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Creating a Font Mapping


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Defining Currency Formats

Currency formats enable you to map a number format mask to

a specific currency, so that your reports can display multiplecurrencies with their own corresponding formats.


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Integrating with Oracle BI Presentation Services:

Overview


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Configuring Integration with Oracle BI

Presentation Services

A typical configuration is presented here for the integration with

Oracle BI Presentation Services:


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Summary

In this lesson, you should have learned how to: Describe BI Publisher administration tasks

Configure data sources

Identify BI Publisher supported security models

Configure security settings Manage user roles and permissions

Configure delivery options

Configure the Scheduler

Manage the runtime configuration

Configure the integration settings for BI Presentation

Services


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Practice 8-3: Overview

This practice covers the following topic: Configuring the email server as a delivery option


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Quiz: Overview

This quiz examines your knowledge of the concepts discussedin the lesson.


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Quiz

The various data sources for which BI Publisher can beconfigured are:

a. JDBC, JNDI and Email server

b. JDBC, JNDI, LDAP, OLAP, and file

c. JDBC, JNDI, LDAP, and OLAP onlyd. Email sever, HTTP, FTP, Fax


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Quiz

The supported security models for BI Publisher are:a. Server Security, SIEBEL, and OLAP

b. Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Database

c. Oracle Fusion Middleware, BI Publisher, LDAP, Oracle BI

Server, Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle Siebel, andOracle Database

d. LDAP, Siebel, Database, and OLAP


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Quiz

Users and groups are maintained outside of BI Publisher andthey are created through the WebLogic Administration Console.

a. True

b. False


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Quiz

Scheduler Diagnostics enable you to view how many scheduledreport requests have been received by the JMS queues.

a. True

b. False


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Quiz

In BI Publisher, runtime properties that are set at the serverlevel take precedence over that of report level.

a. True

b. False


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Quiz

Currency formatting is only supported for RTF and XSLFOtemplates.

a. True

b. False


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Quiz

When you install Oracle BI Enterprise Edition, the integrationwith BI Publisher is automatically configured. This means that

the Oracle BI platform installer sets the Presentation Services

hostname, port, and URL suffix values.

a. True

b. False

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