Discoverer Configuration

Hi,
I have a fresh installation of 11.5.10.2
My customer wants Discoverer 10g to be configured on separate machine and integrated with ebiz.
I have not worked on discoverer earlier but have very little knowledge abt discover.
Does 11.5.10.2 come with discoverer 4i ? How do we upgrade it to 10g ?

Does 11.5.10.2 come with discoverer 4i ?Yes
How do we upgrade it to 10g ?Note: 233436.1 - Installing Oracle Application Server 10g with Oracle E-Business Suite Release 11i
https://metalink.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/ml2_documents.showDocument?p_database_id=NOT&p_id=233436.1
Note: 313418.1 - Using Discoverer 10.1.2 with Oracle E-Business Suite 11i
https://metalink.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/ml2_documents.showDocument?p_database_id=NOT&p_id=313418.1

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