How to move In-Process Reports Server to default standalone under OPMN and EM control?

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Today we will discuss about , "How to move In-Process Reports Server to default standalone under OPMN and EM control?"

The In-process reports server is a child of OC4J_BI_FORMS and requires restart of application to restart reports server.
Can the reports server:
1)  be standalone and still have the same name,
2)  be able to be started independently by OPMN and EM,
3)  and still be the default reports server so that the "server=" parameter can be omitted from the URL? 

This post will give the steps to accomplish this.

Solution

To implement, do the following:
This applies to Unix and Windows. Only Unix traversing is shown in this note.

Step 1. Stop opmn.
$ cd $ORACLE_HOME/opmn/bin
$ opmnctl stopall

Step 2. Stop EM console.
$ cd $ORACLE_HOME/bin
$ emctl stop iasconsole


Step 3. Edit the $ORACLE_HOME/reports/conf/rwservlet.properties file:

From
SERVER_IN_PROCESS=YES
To
SERVER_IN_PROCESS=NO


Step 4. Note the in the rwservlet.properties file the value for SERVER=<somename>.
The SERVER parameter defines the "default" reports server names when server=.. is omitted from URL.

Step 5. Make a backup of $ORACLE_HOME/sysman/emd/targets.xml.


Step 6. Delete the existing in-process report server entries from the targets.xml file:
<Target TYPE="oracle_repserv" NAME="localAS.localhost_Reports_Server:<somename>" DISPLAY_NAME="Reports Server: <somename>" VERSION="1.0" ON_HOST="localhost">
.....
</Target>


Step 7. Add the report server to opmn.xml and targets.xml fles using addnewservertarget.sh or addnewservertarget.bat:
$ cd $ORACLE_HOME/bin/
$ addNewServerTarget.sh <somename>   <= this is the name from step 4


Step 8. Restart opmn.
$ cd $ORACLE_HOME/opmn/bin
$ opmnctl startall

Step 9. Verify that report server is an ias-component.
$ opmnctl status
- Look for the report server name in the first column.


Step 10. Restart EM console.
$ cd $ORACLE_HOME/bin
$ emctl start iasconsole

To start and stop the ONLY reports server from OPMN use the following command:
$ cd $ORACLE_HOME/opmn/bin
$ opmnctl startproc ias-component=<somename>
$ opmnctl stopproc ias-component=<somename>
 
NOTE: If using namingService for reports server discovery, then Dependancy need to be added to new entry in OPMN.XML
1. Edit the new opmn.xml and add the following to the repserv tag:

FROM

<dependencies>
<OID infrastructure="true"/>
<database infrastructure-key="portal"/>
<managed-process ias-component="OC4J" process-type="OC4J_BI_Forms" process-set="default_island" autostart="true"/>
<managed-process ias-component="HTTP_Server" process-type="HTTP_Server" process-set="HTTP_Server" autostart="true"/>
</dependencies>

TO

<dependencies>
<OID infrastructure="true"/>
<database infrastructure-key="portal"/>
<managed-process ias-component="OC4J" process-type="OC4J_BI_Forms" process-set="default_island" autostart="true"/>
<managed-process ias-component="HTTP_Server" process-type="HTTP_Server" process-set="HTTP_Server" autostart="true"/>
<managed-process ias-component="namingservice" process-type="namingservice"
process-set="namingservice" autostart="true"/>
</dependencies>


I hope this will help you in such scenarios..

Regards,
Ajinkya Vichare
ajinkya-vichare.blogspot.com