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OP Administration Overview

Oracle9iAS Personalization (OP) permits Web applications to collect and store customer data in an Oracle database, build models, and make recommendations on the basis of the models. For more information about OP and how it works, see the Oracle 9iAS Personalization User's Guide.

This manual provides the generic instructions for administering Oracle9iAS Personalization and provides notes regarding installation. For more information about installing OP, see the Oracle9i Application Server Installation Guide and Oracle9iAS Personalization Release Notes.

This manual is organized as follows:

• Overview (Chapter 1)

• Security and Internationalization (Chapter 2)

• Installation Notes (Chapter 3)

• OP Schemas (Chapter 4)

• OP Configuration (Chapter 5)

• JSP Tags (Chapter 6)

• Initial Data Collection (Chapter 7)

• Stopping and Starting OP (Chapter 8)

Changes in Functionality

OP release 9.0.2 includes the following changes in functionality that administrators need to know about:

• Changes in installation

• Changes to scheduling OP tasks

• Changes in configuration parameters

• Changes to report names

Installation

The changes in installation procedures are described in Chapter 3, "Installation Notes" and in the Oracle9i Application Service Installation Guide.

Scheduling OP Tasks

The way OP tasks are scheduled has changed. The first release of Oracle9iAS Personalization used Oracle Workflow to perform scheduling of package builds, package deployments, and reports. Workflow also provided email notifications when these events completed. The scheduling tasks and email notification now use a different underlying mechanism, but provide the same functionality. See "Configuring the OP Scheduler" in Chapter 5 for details about configuring scheduling in OP.

Changed Configuration Parameters

The following configuration parameter no longer exists:

• WF_SCHEMA in MOR_CONFIGURATION

The following configuration parameter is new for release 9.0.2:

• ADMIN_EMAIL_ADDRESS in MOR_CONFIGURATION to hold email address of the OP administrator.

Changed Report Names

The "Visitor to Customer Conversion Report" is now called the "Purchasing Session Report."

The "Recommendation Effectiveness Report" is still called the "Recommendation Effectiveness Report."

The "Most Active Cross-Sold Products Report" is now called the "Itemized Recommendation Effectiveness Repport."