Installing TrueSight Operations Management Report Engine with Oracle database
This section provides installation information for BMC TrueSight Operations Management Report Engine, with Oracle as the Reporting database. You must install the Report Engine on a computer different from the one on which SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise is installed.
This topic includes information for:
Before you begin
Before installing the Report Engine, ensure that:
- You are logged in as an administrator (Windows) or a root user (Linux) on the host on which you are installing.
- You have installed BMC TrueSight Infrastructure Management Server and the Oracle database on different computers.
- You have access to the installation files.
- You have created tablespaces and a user for the Oracle database.
- If you are installing more than one Report Engine, ensure that you install the Report Engines one after another instead of installing them simultaneously.
- By default, the Report Engine is installed with AES 256-bit encryption key size. If you want to set this to 128-bit encryption key size, set the following environment variable before installing the Report Engine to:
AES_ENCRYPTION_KEY_SIZE=128
To install BMC TrueSight Operations Management Report Engine on the first computer
Navigate to the Reports/ReportEngine/platform folder, where the platform is Linux or Windows.
- For Windows, double-click ReportEngine10.7.00_buildnumber.exe.
For Linux, at the command line, run the following command: ReportEngine10.7.00_b buildnumber .bin
- In the Welcome page, click Next.
- In the License Agreement page, click I agree to the terms of the license agreement.
IIn the Feature Selection page, select the appropriate features that you want to install.
Selecting the BMC TrueSight Operations Management Report Engine Installation check box selects both the Install BMC TrueSight Operations Management Report Engine 10.7.00 and Import universe and reports 10.7.00 check boxes.In the Database Selection page, select Oracle Standard Edition or Oracle Enterprise Edition and provide the necessary information using the values that you populated in the Planning sheet for installation and configuration, and click Next.
In the BMC TrueSight Operations Management Report Engine Database page, enter the following information:
- Fully-Qualified Database Host Name: Oracle database host
- Port: Oracle Server instance port number (by default, the port number is 1521)
- Database SID or Service Name: Oracle database SID or service name.
- Database Login: the login name for the Oracle database you created.
- Database Password: password for the Oracle database you created.
- Confirm Database Password: password for the Oracle database you created.
- Click Next.
- In the Time Zone Selection page, select an appropriate time zone, and click Next.
- In the Directory Selection page, accept the default directory or select a different directory to install BMC TrueSight Operations Management Report Engine, and click Next.
- In the BMC Truesight Infrastructure Management Server Details page, enter the following information:
- Details for Host Name: Enter the BMC TrueSight Infrastructure Management Server name
- Protocol: Select the network protocol that the TSIM uses (default protocol: HTTP)
- HTTP/S Port: TSIM port (default port: 443)
- Username: BMC TrueSight Infrastructure Management Server user name
- Password: BMC TrueSight Infrastructure Management Server password
- In the BMC TrueSight Infrastructure Management Server Registration page:
- If the BMC TrueSight Infrastructure Management Server is connected to an Oracle database, review all of the data that was automatically entered and make any necessary changes. Then, enter the password for the database user.
- If the BMC TrueSight Infrastructure Management Server is connected to a Sybase database, review all of the data that was automatically entered and make any necessary changes. The database user password is the default password. You can enter a new password if it is different than the default.
If you are working with a TrueSight Infrastructure Management Server that is earlier than version 10.7, the Registration page fields must be completed.
In the BusinessObjects Information page, provide the necessary information using the values that you entered in thePlanning sheet for installation and configuration, and click Next.
In the Installation Preview page, click Install.
The installer begins the installation process.- Click Done.
Apply the Hotfix_1070000010 hotfix.This is a mandatory hotfix, which resolves the issue where information about daylight saving information for the period after 31 December 2019 is not present in the Report Engine database.
For more information, see Adding-daylight-saving-information-in-the-Reporting-database.
To install BMC TrueSight Operations Management Report Engine on the second or subsequent computers
- To install the Report Engine, run the file located in the \Reports\ReportEngine folder, relevant to the operating system.
- (Windows) Run the ReportEngine10.7.00_buildNumber.exe file
- (Linux) Run the ReportEngine10.7.00_buildNumber.bin command
- Follow the instructions on the wizard pages. You need to enter the following information:
- Installing the Report Engine and importing the latest universe and reports.
Database connection information such as the database computer name, default port number 1521, and account details of the user that you created at Creating table spaces and user.
- Directory in which you want to install the product.
- TrueSight Infrastructure Management Server registration details. You can register the current version of TrueSight Infrastructure Management Server.
- Details of the server in which BMC Reporting Foundation is installed, and the SAP BusinessObjects user who has administrator rights (if you select the Import universe and reports 10.7.00 check box)
- In the Installation Preview page, click Install. The installer begins the installation process.