As said in the introduction, legacy versions of OBIEE, prior to Oracle BI 11g, contained functionality to deliver analyses to a targeted set of end-users. So delivery of reports through e-mail and alerts is not new. The object that was created to provide the Delivers method of delivery in those legacy versions was described as an iBot. This functionality has been retained and iBots have been renamed as Agents. To support this functionality, we need to have the Scheduler metadata tables (created by the RCU) and Oracle BI services running as we have covered previously as part of the start up process in order for the full process and following examples to work. So let's go through the process of creating an agent.
The example that we will go through involves e-mailing one of our previously created analysis reports to a user. To do this, we initially have to set up OBIEE with details of a mail server. If you do not have your organization's mail server information or do not wish to set...