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AS Discoverer Configuration Guide
Version 9.0.2
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AS Discoverer Navigation and Accessibility
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1 Introducing Oracle9
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AS Discoverer
1.1 Introducing Oracle9
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AS Discoverer
1.2 About this guide
1.3 What is Oracle9
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AS Discoverer?
1.4 About Oracle9
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AS Discoverer and Oracle9
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Application Server
1.5 What is the Oracle9
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AS Discoverer architecture?
1.6 About the Discoverer client tier
1.6.1 About the Discoverer client tier and Discoverer Plus
1.6.2 About the Discoverer client tier and Discoverer Viewer
1.7 About the Discoverer Services tier
1.7.1 About the Discoverer J2EE components
1.7.1.1 What is the Discoverer servlet?
1.7.1.2 What is the Discoverer Plus servlet?
1.7.1.3 What is the Discoverer Portlet Provider servlet?
1.7.2 About the Discoverer CORBA components
1.7.2.1 What is the Discoverer Session component?
1.7.2.2 What is the Discoverer Preferences component?
1.7.2.3 What is the Object Activation Daemon?
1.8 About the Discoverer database tier
1.9 How does Oracle9
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AS Discoverer work?
1.9.1 How does Discoverer Plus work?
1.9.2 How does Discoverer Viewer work?
2 Using Discoverer with Oracle Enterprise Manager
2.1 Using Discoverer with Oracle Enterprise Manager
2.2 About Oracle Enterprise Manager
2.3 Why use Oracle Enterprise Manager?
2.4 How to start Oracle Enterprise Manager
2.5 How to create a public connection
3 Running Oracle9
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AS Discoverer
3.1 Running Oracle9
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AS Discoverer
3.2 About the Oracle9
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AS demo database
3.3 About running Discoverer Plus for the first time on a client machine
3.4 How to run Discoverer Plus in Microsoft Internet Explorer for the first time
on a client machine
3.5 How to run Discoverer Plus in Netscape Navigator for the first time
on a client machine
3.6 How to run Discoverer Viewer
4 Maintaining Oracle9
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AS Discoverer
4.1 Maintaining Oracle9
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AS Discoverer
4.2 Starting and stopping the Discoverer Windows service
4.2.1 What is the Discoverer Windows service?
4.2.2 When does the Discoverer Windows service start?
4.2.3 How to start the Discoverer Windows service manually
4.2.4 How to stop the Discoverer Windows service manually
4.2.5 How to change the Discoverer Windows service to manual startup
4.2.6 How to see Discoverer Windows service errors
4.3 Shutting down the Discoverer system
4.3.1 When to shut down the Discoverer system
4.3.2 How to shut down individual servers (Windows only)
4.3.2.1 How to shut down individual servers gradually (Windows only)
4.3.2.2 How to shut down individual servers immediately (Windows only)
4.3.3 How to shut down the entire Discoverer system (Windows and UNIX)
4.3.3.1 How to shut down the Discoverer system gradually
4.3.3.2 How to shut down the Discoverer system immediately
4.4 How to stop standalone Oracle9
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AS Discoverer components in Unix
5 Installing Oracle9
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AS Discoverer in a multiple machine environment
5.1 Installing Oracle9
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AS Discoverer in a multiple machine environment
5.2 Why install Oracle9
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AS Discoverer on multiple machines?
5.3 About Oracle9
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AS installations
5.4 About configuring Discoverer in a multiple machine installation
5.5 About specifying the machine that is going to run the Discoverer
Preferences component
5.5.1 How to find out the name of the Discoverer Preference Server machine
5.5.2 How to modify the register session scripts of other machines in the
multiple machine installation to use the Preference Server machine
5.6 About configuring the tnsnames.ora file in a multiple machine installation
5.7 About using multiple Oracle HTTP Servers and OC4J components?
5.7.1 Using Oracle9
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AS Discoverer with a single installation of the Oracle HTTP Server and multiple installations of Oracle9
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AS Containers for J2EE
5.7.2 Using Oracle9
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AS Discoverer with multiple installations of Oracle HTTP Server, and multiple installations of Oracle9
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AS Containers for J2EE
6 Managing the Discoverer CORBA components
6.1 Managing the Discoverer CORBA components
6.2 About the Discoverer CORBA components
6.3 About managing Discoverer CORBA components
6.4 How to confirm that the OAD is running and responding
6.4.1 How to confirm that the OAD is running and responding on UNIX
6.4.2 How to confirm that the OAD is running and responding on Windows
6.5 How to view the registered components
6.6 How to register and unregister the Discoverer Session component with the OAD
6.6.1 How to register and unregister the Discoverer Session component
using the command line
6.6.1.1 To unregister the Discoverer Session component using the command line
6.6.2 How to register and unregister the Discoverer Session component
using the Windows Start menu
6.7 How to start and stop the Preferences component
6.7.1 How to start and stop the Discoverer Preferences component on UNIX
6.7.2 How to start and stop the Discoverer Preferences component on W indows
7 Editing Discoverer preferences
7.1 Editing Discoverer preferences
7.2 What are Discoverer preferences?
7.3 About Discoverer system preferences
7.4 About Discoverer user preferences
7.5 How to set user preferences for all users
7.6 How to set individual preferences for specific users
7.7 List of Discoverer user preferences
7.7.1 About the EnhancedAggregationStrategy user preference setting
7.8 List of arguments to use with the dis51pr command line utility
7.9 List of Discoverer system preferences
8 Starting Discoverer using URL parameters
8.1 Starting Discoverer using URL parameters
8.2 Why use Discoverer with URL arguments
8.3 What is the URL parameter syntax?
8.4 Examples of using URL parameters
8.4.1 Example 1: To start Discoverer Viewer using URL parameters
8.4.2 Example 2: To start Discoverer Plus using URL parameters
8.4.3 Example 3: To start Discoverer without exposing a password in the URL
8.5 Generic Discoverer URL arguments
8.6 Discoverer Plus URL arguments
8.7 Discoverer Viewer URL arguments
9 Using Discoverer with Oracle9
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AS Web Cache
9.1 Using Discoverer with Oracle9
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AS Web Cache
9.2 About Oracle9
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AS Web Cache
9.3 What are the benefits of Oracle9
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AS Web Cache?
9.4 How does Oracle9
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AS Web Cache work?
9.5 When to use Discoverer Viewer with Oracle9
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AS Web Cache
9.6 How to use Discoverer Viewer with Oracle9
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AS Web Cache
9.7 How to turn on Oracle9
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AS Web Cache for Discoverer Viewer
9.8 How to display the Rerun Query link, hide the Preferences link,
and hide the Presentation Options link
9.9 How to turn off Discoverer Viewer's 'sticky worksheet' behavior
9.10 Notes about using Discoverer Viewer with Oracle9
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AS Web Cache
9.10.1 How to remove Discoverer Viewer documents from the cache
9.10.2 How to check that the correct languages are being deployed
9.10.3 How to prevent unauthorized users accessing cached pages
9.10.3.1 How to specify that multiple documents with the same URL
can be cached
9.10.3.2 How to create a session/personalized attribute related caching rule
9.10.4 List of the Oracle9
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AS Web Cache cacheability rules that are pre-configured
for Discoverer Viewer?
9.10.4.1 Cacheability rule to not cache the Rerun Query page
9.10.4.2 Cacheability rule to not cache the Scheduled Workbooks page
(and any workbooks derived from it)
9.10.4.3 Cacheability rule to not cache Discoverer Plus pages
9.10.4.4 Cacheability rule to not cache query pages containing
cached query parameters
9.10.4.5 Cacheability rule to not cache query pages containing cached
drill specifications
9.10.4.6 Cacheability rule to cache all pages served by the Viewer Servlet
10 Customizing Discoverer Viewer
10.1 Customizing Discoverer Viewer
10.2 What is Discoverer Viewer customization?
10.3 What tools do you need to customize Discoverer Viewer?
10.4 About updating Discoverer Viewer CSS files
10.5 About updating Discoverer Viewer XML files
10.6 About presentation options
10.7 About presentation templates
10.8 About the sample browser look-and-feel file (blaf.htm)
10.9 How to change the default Discoverer Viewer look and feel
10.10 How to change the default Discoverer Viewer logo
10.11 How to remove Discoverer Viewer user interface options
10.12 How to create a presentation template
10.13 How to run Discoverer Viewer with Javascript disabled
11 Using Discoverer with Oracle9
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AS Portal
11.1 Using Discoverer with Oracle9
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AS Portal
11.2 What is Oracle9
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AS Portal?
11.3 How to use Oracle9
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AS Discoverer with Oracle9
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AS Portal
11.4 How to register the Discoverer Portlet Provider with Oracle9
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AS Portal
11.5 How to edit the Discoverer Portlet Provider
11.6 About changing the default performance settings for Oracle9
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AS Discoverer
12 Optimizing Discoverer performance and scalability
12.1 Optimizing Discoverer performance and scalability
12.2 About Discoverer and performance
12.3 About Discoverer and scalability
12.4 How to improve Discoverer's performance
12.4.1 How to improve Discoverer performance by using worksheets and
page items appropriately
12.4.2 How to improve Discoverer performance by reducing the time taken
to display business areas and folders
12.4.3 How to improve Discoverer performance by using summary folders
12.4.4 How to improve Discoverer performance by providing a method to provide
a select all parameter values' option that does not use a DECODE statement
12.4.5 How to improve Discoverer performance by using Discoverer
Administrator hints
12.4.6 How to improve Discoverer performance by setting the Case Storage
item property appropriately
12.4.7 How to improve Discoverer performance by increasing the size of the
array used to fetch rows from the database
12.4.8 How to improve Discoverer performance by basing lists of values
on tables containing distinct values
12.4.9 How to improve Discoverer performance by changing cache
settings for your system
12.4.10 How to improve Discoverer performance by scheduling worksheets
to run overnight
12.4.11 How to improve Discoverer performance by using Oracle9
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AS Web Cache
12.5 How to take advantage of Discoverer's scalable architecture
12.5.1 How to take advantage of Discoverer's scalable architecture using
the scalability features of Oracle9
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AS
12.5.2 How to enhance Discoverer scalability by specifying OC4J
memory usage parameters
12.5.3 How to enhance Discoverer scalability by specifying the number
of OC4J processes
12.5.4 How to enhance Discoverer Viewer scalability using XSL stylesheet pooling
13 Maintaining data security with Discoverer
13.1 Maintaining data security with Discoverer
13.2 About Discoverer and data security
13.3 About Database security
13.4 About End User Layer security
13.4.1 About business areas
13.4.2 About Discoverer connections
13.4.3 About Single Sign-On
13.4.3.1 What is Oracle9
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AS Single Sign-On?
13.4.3.2 About Single Sign-On and Discoverer
13.4.3.3 About authentication in non-Single Sign-on environments
13.4.4 About Discoverer and Portal security
13.5 About network security
13.5.1 About Discoverer Viewer security
13.5.2 About Discoverer Plus security
13.5.2.1 About configuring Discoverer Plus for a non-standard signing authority
13.5.2.2 About specifying a Discoverer Plus communication protocol
13.5.2.3 How to display the Oracle9
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AS Discoverer Plus Configuration
page in OEM
13.5.2.4 How to set up Discoverer Plus to use the default communication
protocol
13.5.2.5 How to set up Discoverer Plus to use the Tunneling
communication protocol
13.5.2.6 How to set up Discoverer Plus to use the Secure Tunneling
communication protocol
13.5.3 What are the differences between Oracle9
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AS Discoverer Plus version 9.0.2
and version 4.1
13.5.4 About security vulnerabilities
13.6 Frequently asked questions about security
13.6.1 What is a firewall?
13.6.2 What is a demilitarized zone (DMZ)?
13.6.3 What is HTTPS and why should I use it?
13.6.4 How do I configure Discoverer to work in an intranet
13.6.5 How do I configure Discoverer to work through a firewall?
13.6.6 Can I configure Discoverer to work through multiple firewalls?
13.6.7 How do I configure Discoverer to use encryption in an intranet?
13.6.8 How do I configure Discoverer to use encryption through firewalls?
13.6.9 How can I verify that Discoverer is encrypting communications?
13.6.10 Can I configure Discoverer for both SSL and non-SSL communication?
13.6.11 Can I configure Discoverer for both intranet users and users
accessing Discoverer through a firewall?
13.6.12 Can I use Discoverer with a NAT device?
14 Oracle9
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AS Discoverer and Oracle Applications
14.1 Oracle9
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AS Discoverer and Oracle Applications
14.2 About Discoverer connections and Oracle Applications
14.3 About Discoverer configuration settings for Oracle Applications
14.4 How to configure Discoverer for an Oracle Applications only environment
14.5 How to configure Discoverer for a mixed application environment
A Discoverer configuration files
A.1 Discoverer configuration files
A.2 List of Discoverer file locations
A.3 List of configuration settings in ui_config.xml
A.4 List of configuration settings in configuration.xml
A.5 List of configuration settings in plus_config.xml
B Generating trace information in Discoverer
B.1 Generating trace information in Discoverer
B.2 About trace information
B.3 How to generate trace information
C Frequently asked questions
C.1 Frequently asked questions
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