Monday, 30 December 2013

OBIEE 11.1.1.7.0 Step By Step Installation on Linux RHEL 6.5 x86_64 bit

  1. Hardware Requirements
  2. Download of Installation Files
  3. Prerequisites
  4. Creation of the Middleware Home directory
  5. Libraries for Linux Red Hat
  6. Ulimits
  7. Creating an RCU on Database
  8. OBIEE 11.1.1.7 Installation
    • Unzip the installation files on Linux box
    • Start the installation process
    • Specify inventory directory
    • Installer starts main GUI for installation
      • Step 1: Installer release Notes etc
      • Step 2: Software updates
      • Step 3: Installer Type: Simple Install
      • Step 4: The prerequisite checks starts here
      • Step 5 : Specify Installation Location
      • Step 6: Weblogic User and Scale Out
      • Step 7: Select Components to Install
      • Step 8: Fill in Database Details related to RCU Created
      • Step 9: Oracle Security Updates
      • Step 10: Generate a Response File (Silent Install File) & Summary
      • Step 11: Installation Has Started Copying Of Files
      • Step 12: Installation Has Started Configuring OBIEE
      • Step 13: Installation Result Summary Screen


I. Hardware Requirements

            Hard Disk required around 40 GB (Including installation files etc)
            RAM = 4 GB Minimum

II. Download the installation files



             Libraries for this installation are available from here if any are missing.


III. Prerequisite

On Linux, running Oracle Business Intelligence 11.1.1.6 Installer as the root user is not supported.
Make sure there is a user available with the oinstall group and dba group memberships assigned.

Create MiddlewareHome Directory in a location where there is sufficient space available.
Use the command df –h to check space available to you for the install and space for the installation files.

When you have found the directory where you would like to install then create a middleware home.

IV. Creation of Middleware Home Directory

                 Log in as root and make a new directory as follows,
                 mkdir -p /MiddlewareHome
                 chown -R wishtree:oinstall /MiddlewareHome
                 chmod -R 775 /MiddlewareHome

          When installation starts it will run a prerequisite check on the system to make sure all libraries needed for the install are available. You can either use YUM or the above link in the document to download the required libraries identified during the prerequisite check.

V. Libraries for Linux

           If Libraries need to be installed cancel the install – Download and install the libraries using the commands below:
        To install: rpm –ivh <package_name>

VI. Ulimits

                Set the Ulimit Parameters (Soft and Hard Limits)
            set the /etc/security/limits.conf file
            oracle soft nofile 4096
            oracle hard nofile 65536

If you have set the Ulimits in the conf file above then the Linux instance will need a bounce for the settings to be set on boot up.

To set ulimit, you can execute the below command, log in as root,
           Ulimit -n 4096

To see if you have set the ulimit correctly the command to use is :
           ulimit –a | grep open

VII. Creating an RCU on Database

     As we are running OBIEE on Linux 64 Bit platform, we have to create the RCU from a Windows Machine. We are using windows 7 for this. This utility can be run any time prior to the OBIEE installation and the database user must have sysdba privilege on the required database. Database version we are using is 11.2.0.2.0.
  1. Start rcu.sh
    
     2. Click Next.

      3. Fill in the relevant details.
          This can be found in the tnsnames.ora file for the database that you want install the RCU on.
          Click Next.

      4. Ignore the Warning for database supported versions.

    5. Select Create to create a new schema in database.

    6. Click Ok when operation is completed.

      7. Click Oracle Business Intelligence and click Next. Make a note of the Prefix.

     8. Click Ok when operation is completed.

     9. Select Use passwords for all schema. Set the password for both the schema which you are going to create in your database.

       10. Make a note of your schema Owners and Click Next.

          11. Click Ok to confirm the Tablespaces.

          12. Create Ok when operation completed.

           13. Make sure summary is ok and you have taken down all notes and click Create.

          14. You will get a completion Summary. Click Close.

That's it. If you login to your  database, you will see 2 schemas with their objects  have been created ready to support your OBIEE main installation.

VIII. OBIEE 11.1.1.7.0 Installation

Unzip the installation files on the Linux box

When you issue the first unzip command it will create a bishiphome directory and with increate sub directories for the disks.

If you do not have enough disk space on the Linux box you can keep deleting the installation zip files after you unzip them.

         1. Navigate to the following directory on the server. 
             Initiate the installation by giving the following command on the server, 
             ./runInstaller 

         2. Specify Inventory directory.

      3. Deselect "Continue installation with local inventory" and then Ok.

       4. Step 1: Install release notes, etc. Click Next.

       5. Step 2: Skip Software updates if you want and click Next.

      6. Step 3: Click Simple install and click Next.

       7. Step 4: If any prerequisite check fails, then Cancel the installation, make them correct and restart the installer. If succeed, click Next.

         8. Step 5: Point to Middleware Directory Created earlier on install guide. And Click Next.

         9. Step 6: Fill in Weblogic and your password. Click Next.

         10. Step 7: Select components to install. Click Next.

      11. Step 8: Fill in Database Details related to RCU Created. (For DEV_BIPLATFORM)

                        The same for MDS and & BIPLATFORM schemas created in RCU Process.
                        Fill in Database Type : Oracle Database Connect String : Description as above.
                        BIPLATFORM : Schema as created when creating RCU and password used.
                        Click Next.

      12. Click Next for DEV_MDS schema accepting defaults. Click Next.

     13. Step 9: Deselect Support check box as follows and Click Next.

       14.Click Yes.

     15. Step 10: Generate a response file (Silent Install File) & summary.

                         Here you can generate a response file (Silent Install File) Click Save.
                         You can use this file for another installation if needed.

     16. Step 11: Click Install.

                  Install stage of copying files has started, post install scripts and one off patches etc.
                  Once at 100% the copying is complete.

       17. Step 12: Installation has started configuring OBIEE.

                   This is where the Installer is Configuring OBIEE 11.1.1.6 and Weblogic and Fusion                                      Middleware etc. Make sure everything is Success, and then only everything will be working as                      expected. Click Next.

     18. Step 13: Installation Result Summary screen.

                Save the Completion Summary to the box and copy all the URL’s Needed etc to launch OBIEE.
                That’s it for the installation. Run the EM makes sure everything is ok.

     19. Test your URL’s from your completion summary and everything is up and running.


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Sunday, 22 December 2013

OBIEE 11g Interagtion with MS-Office (Installation & Configuration)


Here are the Steps to configure the MS-Office in OBIEE 11g environment.

Step1. Download Oracle BI for MS Office from OBIEE 11g Home Page.

Step 2. Run the Installer and complete the installation as below.
(Before this installation, you may need to install the .Net Framework 2.0 or later.)



Step 3. Open Microsoft Power Point (or Excel). You will be prompted with a window like this.
Select "Do not show this dialogue again" and then click Ok.

Step 4. The Preferences window will open and you need to select NEW connection.

Step 5. Click on New button to create a new connection as below.
Details are here:

Server Name             : You can give any name . I have given BI Server here.

BI Office Server       : Give your sever name. (If you have installed obiee in your local machine then give localhost or your machine name.)

Application Name     : bioffice by default (leave it unchanged).

Port                            : 7001

Step 6. Test the connection.

Step 7. Verify the connection details as below.

Step 8. Click Ok to complete the setup.
Step 9. Open the Power Point and you will see the Oracle BI add-on in the tab as below.

Step 10. Click the login button and enter the credentials.

Step 11. You will get an error like this ...!!!!

No Worries , This happens because in the Step 6 you have give the PORT as 7001 and the default bioffice port is 9704.

This is because in bioffice.xml file.

[C:\OBI11g\user_projects\domains\bifoundation_domain\servers\AdminServer\tmp\_WL_user\bioffice_11.1.1\hsq62b\war\WEB-INF] SawBaseURL is pointing to 9704 port.

Step 12. Change it to 7001 and then Save the file.

Step 13. Restart the services from EM. [http://yourservername:7001/em] and then try login again, it should work.

Step 14. Once you are logged in, you will see the BI catalog on the right pane of Microsoft PowerPoint.

Create the Required reports form the available subject area in the right side plane.

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