Requirements

You must configure the web server that hosts the HTML Reporting web pages. If you have installed a web server for PATROL Central-Web Edition, you can use the same versions of the web server and the Tomcat servlet engine for HTML reporting.

Note

The menu command (PCO) of HTML reporting no longer exists in PATROL for Oracle Database 9.7.11 version and above.


If you are not using the PATROL Central-Web Edition, or want to install a separate web server for HTML reporting, you must ensure that the web server fulfills the following requirements:

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Requirements

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Operating system

  • Microsoft Windows NT, 2000
  • UNIX ® (any UNIX platform that is supported by PATROL for Oracle)

See Installing

FTP communication

  • FTP Publishing service must be run on the web server, and you must be able to read and write to the default FTP directories.

PATROL Agent host must be able to communicate through FTP to the web server.

Web Server

  • Microsoft IIS
  • Windows 2000
  • Apache Web Server

For Microsoft Windows NT and Windows 2000 computers, the DNS address must be static.

Oracle Java

  • Sun Java2 Platform Standard Edition
  • set the new environment variable JAVA_HOME to point to the root directory of the Sun JDK™ hierarchy
  • add JAVA_HOME/bin directory to your PATH environment variable

Java2 is available from http://java.sun.com.|

Tomcat servlet engine

  • 3.3.x, 3.2.x, 3.11
  • 4.0x, 4.1.x
  • Set the new environment variable TOMCAT_HOME to point to the root directory of your Tomcat hierarchy if you are not using the Tomcat that is installed as part of PATROL Central - Web Edition.
  • During the FTP setup from PATROL for Oracle, you must update the server.xml file for the Tomcat servlet engine, which is stored in the TOMCAT_HOME/conf directory.

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  1. Tim Bocardo

    The link to "Installing and migrating PATROL for Oracle" links back to this page

    Feb 10, 2021 09:38
    1. Swati Malhotra

      Thanks for bringing it to our notice, Tim Bocardo ! We have fixed the link.


      Thanks and regards,

      Swati

      Feb 10, 2021 06:40