We saw how to install the Oracle Analytics Server 6.4 in an Oracle Linux 8.5 VirtualBox VM in a previous post. Now that is has been installed successfully, we are now going to see how to configure it, and once again I have documented all the steps in this page.
This product requires an installation of the Oracle Fusion Middleware Infrastructure as well as a supported database. We are now going to execute the Configuration Assistant script to configure the Oracle Analytics Server Domain.
The “config.sh” script is located in the “ORACLE_HOME/bi/bin” directory, it is located in “/home/oracle/Oracle/Middleware/Oracle_Home/bi/bin” directory in this VM. I used the cd command to change to this directory and I executed the “config.sh” script:
After a few seconds, the Configuration Assistant appeared with a Welcome message (Step 1). I clicked the “Next” button to navigate to Step 2:
Step 2 allowed to select the components to configure, I selected both “Oracle Analytics Server” and “Oracle Analytics Publisher” and I clicked the “Next” button:
Step 3 did some prerequisite checks and as they were all successful, I clicked the “Next” button:
Step 4 asked for the new domain parameters, I used the default domains directory, I chose “BI” for the domain name and accepted the default domain home. I used the default “weblogic” username for the administrator account and I entered and confirmed a password before clicking the “Next” button:
Step 5 offered a choice between either to create new database schemas or to use existing ones created with the RCU tool. I chose the first option and I provided the connect string (oraclelinux:1521:orclpdb1 here) and the credentials of the database account that had privileges to create the new schemas. I chose “BI” for the schemas prefix, I provided a schema password and I clicked the “Next” button:
Step 6 asked about the port numbers range that Oracle Analytics and Weblogic server could use, I kept the default port range (9500-9999) and I clicked the “Next” button.
Step 7 asked to specify whether to set up a default installation (with no content) or to start with content exported from another Oracle Analytics or Oracle BI Enterprise Edition installation. I chose the first option and I clicked the “Next” button.
Step 8 was a summary of the configuration and offered the possibility to save the configuration into a response file that could be used during a silent installation for instance. I saved the response file and I clicked the “Configure” button.
Step 9 did the configuration of the Oracle Analytics Server.
The process took a while and appeared to be stuck at the “Start all Servers” step…
But, after something like 20 minutes, the configuration finally concluded with a success and I clicked the “Next” button to navigate to the last Configuration Assistant screen.
Step 10 was a summary of the successful configuration and I allowed to save that information into a file. I clicked the “Save” button to save the information and the “Finish” button to close the Assistant.
I tried to connect to the Enterprise Manager using the “http://oraclelinux.localdomain:9500/em” URL. I entered the weblogic credentials in the login page, and after something like two minutes I was finally connected. There was a message recommending to enable the discovery cache and/or to improve the application server performance. That’s definitively something that I would have to do, two minutes to establish a connection was clearly too much. We will see how to enable the discovery cache in an other tutorial.
I tried to connect to Oracle Analytics using the “http://oraclelinux.localdomain:9502/analytics” URL and it worked too.
finally, I had a working Oracle Analytics Server VM, now it was a good time to backup the VM.
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