Re: Absolute minimum for Oracle portal to work

andreyNSPAM_at_bookexchange.net (NetComrade) wrote in message news:<3fd51148.3923225680_at_nyc.news.speakeasy.net>...
> What is the absolute minimum that needs to be working for Oracle
> Portal to work? I've been trying to evaluate it, but so far has spent
> 3 days installing it. I am past compilation problems, and db creation
> problems. The things that 'failed' are Internet Directory
> Configuration Assistant, Infrastructure Instance Configuration
> Assistant, Oracle 9i Application Server randomize password, Single
> SIgn-on Config Assistant, mod_osso config assistant, and OPMN
> Configuration assistant (DAS Instance). ANd this is just the
> 'infrastructure' part. I don't want to start the portal installation,
> since it depends for some of these services to be up.
>
> This product is evil! What happenned to the simlicity of WebDB? All I
> want is to run some stinking reports.
>
> BTW, I tried RTFM, it's just not clear what's needed for what, and I
> don't want to configure services I don't need.

You must've missed something. Like Chapter five of the Oracle9i Application Server Administrator's Guide, which has dependencies of components (unless they've changed the docs radically).

It is a pretty ridiculous amount of research and work just to get a report out, but it can be made to work. Try support, they go through this every day (and have an amazing range of conflicting styles for making it work). You pretty much have to be on it every day to be productive with reports, and the basic reporting stuff can't do anything too sophisticated - kind of interesting code in the packages it generates, though.

I take it you have the cookbook?

jg

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