2 Introduction to Oracle Communications Data Model Installation

Types of Installations Provided for Oracle Communications Data Model

Using the Oracle Installer you can perform two types of Oracle Communications Data Model installations:

• Installation of the Oracle Communications Data Model component, itself. You must install this component to create an Oracle Communications Data Model data warehouse.

• Installation of sample reports (and schemas) that you can use for ideas about how to design your own reports. Installing these samples is optional.

  Note:

  The reports and dashboards that are used in examples and delivered with Oracle Communications Data Model are provided only for demonstration purposes. They are not supported by Oracle.

Different items are installed depending on whether you install the database objects or the sample reports and schemas.

Communications Data Model Installation

When you perform a Communications Data Model installation of Oracle Communications Data Model, Installer installs the Oracle Communications Data Model component without data. Specifically, Installer creates the following schemas in the target database:

• ocdm_sys which is the main schema for Oracle Communications Data Model. This schema contains all the relational and OLAP components of Oracle Communications Data Model, including the Oracle Communications Data Model data mining results tables.

• ocdm_mining which is the data mining schema of Oracle Communications Data Model. This schema contains all the mining components of Oracle Communications Data Model except the data mining results tables.

There is no data in these two schemas. You need to populate data into the schema.

Sample Reports Installation

When you perform a Sample Reports installation of the Oracle Communications Data Model, Installer creates the Oracle Communications Data Model sample schema in the target database, and copies and configures all the sample reports to your OBIEE server. Specifically, the Installer installs:

• The following files that provide the data for the sample reports:

  • ocdm_sample.dmp.zip which is a dump file of the schemas that contain the sample data for the relational and data mining components of Oracle Communications Data Model.

    Tip:

    The default user name for the schema is ocdm_sample.

  • ocdm_sample.eif which is a dump file containing sample data for the Oracle Communications Data Model analytic workspace (that is, the OLAP cubes).

• The following files that define and create the sample reports:

  • ocdm.rpd

  • ocdmwebcat.zip

Oracle Communications Data Model Home Directory Structure

The installation image contains the following directories under ORACLE_HOME/ocdm:

• report which contains the sample report files required for Oracle Communications Data Model installation.

• pdm which contains the physical schema dump, creation script, and lookup value population as listed in the following table.

Overview of the Installation Process

Installation of Oracle Communications Data Model requires the following tasks:

1. Read Oracle Communications Data Model Release Notes to identify any last minute changes.

2. Verify that your system is one of the supported platforms and that it satisfies the hardware and software requirements as described in Chapter 1, "Hardware and Software Requirements."

3. Identify and perform any necessary pre-installation tasks, as described in "Pre-installation Tasks".

4. Install the Oracle Communications Data Model component or the Oracle Communications Data Model sample reports, as described in "Installer Execution".

   Tip:

   you can also perform a silent installation, see "Silent Installation" for more information.

5. Identify and perform any necessary post-installation tasks, as described in "Post-Installation Tasks".

6. Install the additional components that you need to create an Oracle Communications Data Model data warehouse or run the sample reports, as described in Chapter 4, "Installation of Additional Components."