Discoverer Connections

Hi
I am in the process of doing some testing of BI Discoverer 10.1.2.0.2 as we are about to upgrade from Discoverer 9i.
I am trying to create a Dynamic connection to Discoverer plus so that when a user clicks on the connection they have to enter their username and password. Is this possible? I have created private and public connections.
Any help on this would be appreciated.
Regards
Seán Garvan

Hi Seán
Private connections will do what you want but if you want these to be available across the whole system, asopposed to only using a cookie on the local machine, you will need to enable Single Sign-ON. With this enabled, after the user authenticates their own private connection will appear.
There's no way you can have the same connection accept a different username because at the very least the username is embedded into the connection.
Does any of this help?
Regards
Michael

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Error while trying to open the discoverer connections page

Dears,
please your kindly help!!!
Error while trying to open the discoverer connections page
When I tried to open the link http://192.168.4.222:7778/discoverer/viewer
I received the error:
An error occurred while handling the event. See the application log for more details.
A fatal application error has occurred. Please consult with your OracleAS administrator or look at the application log file.
I checked the OC4J application.log file and I found the following:
10/03/11 10:34:16 discoverer: [ERROR] [AJPRequestHandler-ApplicationServerThread-6] oracle.discoverer.applications.framework.
GlobalExceptionHandler.execute null
java.lang.NullPointerException
at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:172)
at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:131)
at java.awt.Font$2.run(Font.java:606)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.awt.Font.createFont(Font.java:600)
at oracle.discoverer.renderer.pdf.XDOConfig._discoverFonts(Unknown Source)
at oracle.discoverer.renderer.pdf.XDOConfig.<init>(Unknown Source)
at oracle.discoverer.renderer.pdf.XDOConfig.getNewInstance(Unknown Source)
at oracle.discoverer.renderer.pdf.PDFGenerator.initPDF(Unknown Source)
at oracle.discoverer.applications.viewer.model.ViewerApplication.init(Unknown Source)
at oracle.discoverer.applications.framework.ApplicationFactory.create(Unknown Source)
at oracle.discoverer.applications.framework.ApplicationController.getApplication(Unknown Source)
at oracle.discoverer.applications.framework.ApplicationController.execute(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.processActionPerform(RequestProcessor.java:484)
at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.process(RequestProcessor.java:274)
at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.process(ActionServlet.java:1482)
at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.doGet(ActionServlet.java:507)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:740)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
at com.evermind[Oracle Application Server Containers for J2EE 10g (10.1.2.0.2)].server.http.ServletRequestDispatcher.
invoke(ServletRequestDispatcher.java:824)
at com.evermind[Oracle Application Server Containers for J2EE 10g (10.1.2.0.2)].server.http.ServletRequestDispatcher.
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at com.evermind[Oracle Application Server Containers for J2EE 10g (10.1.2.0.2)].server.http.ServletRequestDispatcher.
forward(ServletRequestDispatcher.java:222)
at oracle.discoverer.applications.viewer.url.URLServlet._process(Unknown Source)
at oracle.discoverer.applications.viewer.url.URLServlet.doGet(Unknown Source)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:740)
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at com.evermind[Oracle Application Server Containers for J2EE 10g (10.1.2.0.2)].server.http.ResourceFilterChain.doFil
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at com.evermind[Oracle Application Server Containers for J2EE 10g (10.1.2.0.2)].server.http.ServletRequestDispatcher.
forwardInternal(ServletRequestDispatcher.java:330)
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RequestHandler.java:224)
at com.evermind[Oracle Application Server Containers for J2EE 10g (10.1.2.0.2)].server.http.AJPRequestHandler.run(AJP
RequestHandler.java:133)
at com.evermind[Oracle Application Server Containers for J2EE 10g (10.1.2.0.2)].util.ReleasableResourcePooledExecutor
$MyWorker.run(ReleasableResourcePooledExecutor.java:186)
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at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.processException(RequestProcessor.java:553)
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at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.process(RequestProcessor.java:274)
at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.process(ActionServlet.java:1482)
at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.doGet(ActionServlet.java:507)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:740)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
at com.evermind[Oracle Application Server Containers for J2EE 10g (10.1.2.0.2)].server.http.ServletRequestDispatcher.
invoke(ServletRequestDispatcher.java:824)
at com.evermind[Oracle Application Server Containers for J2EE 10g (10.1.2.0.2)].server.http.ServletRequestDispatcher.
forwardInternal(ServletRequestDispatcher.java:330)
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forward(ServletRequestDispatcher.java:222)
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at oracle.discoverer.applications.viewer.url.URLServlet.doGet(Unknown Source)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:740)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
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at oracle.discoverer.applications.framework.ApplicationEncodingFilter.doFilter(Unknown Source)
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at com.evermind[Oracle Application Server Containers for J2EE 10g (10.1.2.0.2)].server.http.ServletRequestDispatcher.
forwardInternal(ServletRequestDispatcher.java:330)
at com.evermind[Oracle Application Server Containers for J2EE 10g (10.1.2.0.2)].server.http.HttpRequestHandler.proces
sRequest(HttpRequestHandler.java:830)
at com.evermind[Oracle Application Server Containers for J2EE 10g (10.1.2.0.2)].server.http.AJPRequestHandler.run(AJP
RequestHandler.java:224)
at com.evermind[Oracle Application Server Containers for J2EE 10g (10.1.2.0.2)].server.http.AJPRequestHandler.run(AJP
RequestHandler.java:133)
at com.evermind[Oracle Application Server Containers for J2EE 10g (10.1.2.0.2)].util.ReleasableResourcePooledExecutor
$MyWorker.run(ReleasableResourcePooledExecutor.java:186)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:534)
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at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:172)
at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:131)
at java.awt.Font$2.run(Font.java:606)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
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at oracle.discoverer.renderer.pdf.XDOConfig.<init>(Unknown Source)
at oracle.discoverer.renderer.pdf.XDOConfig.getNewInstance(Unknown Source)
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at oracle.discoverer.applications.viewer.model.ViewerApplication.init(Unknown Source)
at oracle.discoverer.applications.framework.ApplicationFactory.create(Unknown Source)
at oracle.discoverer.applications.framework.ApplicationController.getApplication(Unknown Source)
at oracle.discoverer.applications.framework.ApplicationController.execute(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.processActionPerform(RequestProcessor.java:484)
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Best Regards ,
Yasser

Welcome to the forums !
Pl see if MOS Doc 360403.1 (Launcing Discoverer Plus Fails With Error "Oracle.Discoverer.Applications.Framework.Globalexceptionhandler.Execute Null" in Application.log File) is applicable in your case
HTH
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Regards
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I invoke the following url in browser window 1 to open Oracle DIscoverer Plus.
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http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/html/B13918_03/tshoot.htm#sthref1287
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Hi.
Application server 10g 10.1.2.0.2
Discoverer (business intelligence)
HP-UX
10g Database
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A connection error has occurred.
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Hi everyone
There is a known issue when using AIX, HP-ux or Linux against a 10.1.x database. If this is your scenario, then you need to obtain and read the appropriate release notes. For your information, the necessary instructions are attached here:
When using Oracle Database 10g Release 1 (10.1.x) for the Metadata Repository or after upgrading the Metadata Repository to Oracle Database 10g Release 1, you might see the following error on the OracleBI Discoverer Plus Connection pages, the OracleBI Discoverer Viewer Connection pages, and the Public Connection definition page in Application Server Control:
The connection list is currently unavailable.
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ORA-06510: PL/SQL: unhandled user-defined exception
ORA-06512: at "ORASSO.WWSSO_UTL" line 728
ORA-28231: no data passed to obfuscation toolkit
ORA-06512: at line 1 Unable to retrieve connection list
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DB_install_home/dbs
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event="10946 trace name context forever, level 36"
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4. Log in as a sysadmin.
5. At the SQL prompt, shut down then start up the database server.
6. Restart the OracleBI Discoverer server using the command opmnctl restartall.
You can get the full AIX document by clicking here: http://download-east.oracle.com/docs/html/B25207_03/toc.htm
The Linux document by clicking here: http://download-east.oracle.com/docs/html/B25824_01/toc.htm
and the HP-ux document here: http://download-east.oracle.com/docs/html/B25199_03/toc.htm
and then searching for 06512.
Neither Windows nor Unix appear to be plagued this way, at least not so far. :-)
I hope this helps
Best wishes
Michael Armstrong-Smith
URL: http://learndiscoverer.com
Blog: http://learndiscoverer.blogspot.com

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We have a portal that has single sign on the discoverer. We need a way for the RAD descriptor we defined in the portal for a user (This being that database connection details a portal user has) to be the private
discoverer connection. We are able to query the sso information via a script we found on Metalink. Now we are searching for a way to create private Discoverer connections by batch for these details. Please Help as we can not enter 400 private connections.

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Any manual manipulation of the tables could introduce corruption and leave you in an unsupported state or situation where you have to restore from backup.
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Regards,
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