12/18/24, 8:59 PM OBIEE 11gR1 : Architecture and Use of WebLogic Server

OBIEE 11gR1 : Architecture

and Use of WebLogic Server
Mark Rittman
Jul 9, 2010 • 9 min read

Although the most obvious new thing about the recently launched
11gR1 release of OBIEE is the user interface, under the covers there's
been a lot of changes to the architecture, and how you perform systems
management. There's still the basic concept of a BI Server,
Presentation Server, RPD and so on, but it's now all managed and in
some cases hosted, using WebLogic Server, the J2EE application server
that Oracle have adopted following the acquisition of BEA.

For the 10g release, OC4J and in some cases, Oracle Application
Server, was used in a limited form to provide a gateway between the
users' browser and the C++ OBIEE server applications, and to host the
BI Office and BI Publisher J2EE applications, but you generally didn't
have to get too involved with it. In OBIEE 11g, WebLogic together with
associated technologies such as OPMN, DMS and ODL are much more
prominent and if you're going to be administering an OBIEE 11g
system (including running it on your own desktop), you'll be getting to
know WebLogic pretty well, together with the latest version of Oracle
Enterprise Manager (or as it's called in this release, Oracle Fusion
Middleware Control).

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When looking at the architecture of a new product, I often like to start

at the top and work down. The diagram below shows the high-level
architecture for OBIEE 11g, with the diagram showing a single OBIEE
"BI Domain", a container for a complete, single (and perhaps
clustered) installation of OBIEE 11g.
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you had to create manually in 10g, plus a few others new for 11g.

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So whilst it looks initially a bit confusing and overwhelming, the basics

are still the same. The BI Server is still a standalone C++ application,
it's just that it's managed (stopped, started, monitored etc) through
Fusion Middleware Control and OPMN. The various J2EE components
such as BI Publisher are still J2EE, they are just installed in WebLogic
now (apparently this will be extended to other J2EE application servers
over time). Some key differences, especially if you're running on
Windows, is that there are no longer and BI Server, BI Presentation
Server etc services, and you also can't go around editing configuration
files now as WebLogic manages them (actually this is only partially
true, and I'll get onto that in a separate posting). More importantly, all
the WebLogic overhead means that you'll need about 4GB of RAM if
you're installing OBIEE 11g on your laptop, along with a database for
the repository schemas as source data, which is about twice what you
need for the 10g version, so now's the time to put in for a laptop
upgrade.

There are some key Fusion Middleware technologies, terminology and

utilities that you'll need to get to know when starting to work with
OBIEE 11g.
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Server, with JRockit (as opposed to the Sun JVM) generally ar

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the RPD (including the Administrator user, which has now b

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look at how the components start up after a reboot. With OBIEE 11g,
you use Oracle WebLogic Server admin console to start up the
WebLogic Managed Server that contains the OBIEE components, and
then you use Oracle Fusion Middleware Control to start these
individual components up.

UPDATE 14-Aug-2010 : The official GA release also introduces a

Windows Start Menu entry for starting all OBIEE 11g services. See

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this posting for full details.

1. Once the WebLogic Server admin server is up and running,

your first step is to log into the WebLogic admin console
(typically, at http://localhost:7001/console) and navigate to
the Server view. You then instruct the Node Manager to start
WebLogic managed server, which typically takes a couple of
minutes to complete.
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4. Keeping with Fusion Middleware Control, I select Capacity

Management > Availability from the tabs, and see that it's
the Scheduler that's down.

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5. Finally, I want to switch off caching, as OBIEE turns it on by

default for new installs but this interferes with results when
I'm doing development work. In OBIEE 11g, whether caching
is turned on or not is still determined by an entry in the
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nqsconfig.ini file, but you're meant to manage this setting

via Fusion Middleware Control (if you edit it directly in the
file, the admin server will overwrite your changes when you
restart it, though you can disable this behaviour). To turn off
caching, I navigate to the Capacity Management >
Performance tab, where I can see the entry to enable the
cache.
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st
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it

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g)
.

In the meantime, if you'd like to keep abreast on the news on OBIEE

11g as it becomes available, including details of our forthcoming 11g-
focused training courses and services, be sure to bookmark our newly-
launched OBIEE 11g Resource Centre. We'll be posting links to all our
OBIEE 11g articles, and there'll be news in a few days time about a
special, hands-on OBIEE 11g Training Days event we'll be running in
London and Atlanta in October 2010.

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Krishna − ⚑
12 years ago

Hi Mark,

We are planning to install OBIEE enterprise version for ORACLE 11.2.0.3 using WLS
10.3.1(which already have) and Apache as Webservers.
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We are new to use OBIEE in our environment. Can you please suggest on architecture?
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Also can you please confirm whether we by Ghost
need to be install OBIEE client in Oracle DB
server?

PS: We are not using RAC for DB server. This is single instance.

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Krishna − ⚑
12 years ago

Hi Mark,

We are planning to install OBIEE enterprise version for ORACLE 11.2.0.3 using WLS
10.3.1(which already have) and Apache as Webservers.

We are new to use OBIEE in our environment. Can you please suggest on architecture?
Also can you please confirm whether we need to be install OBIEE client in Oracle DB
server?

PS: We are not using RAC for DB server. This is single instance.

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Rams − ⚑
12 years ago

hi all,
i'm install oracle bi publisher with weblogic.
i can make the report in my reports in bi using weblogic in my local system. but how can i
publish or share the bi application through web.

please help me...

Regards
Rams

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R
Rams − ⚑
12 years ago

hi all,
i'm install oracle bi publisher with weblogic.
i can make the report in my reports in bi using weblogic in my local system. but how can i
publish or share the bi application through web.

please help me...

Regards
Rams

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parya − ⚑
12 years ago

hi mark
this was a useful,thanks alot, you have perfect documents about Obiee , I do it, and I
remove dsn in odbc and add it agian, it work
best regard
parya

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parya − ⚑
12 years ago

hi mark
this was a useful,thanks alot, you have perfect documents about Obiee , I do it, and I
remove dsn in odbc and add it agian, it work
best regard
parya

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parya − ⚑
12 years ago

In environment variables set the ORACLE_INSTANCE to \\instances\instance1. Restarted

BI services and to be sure checked the services by using the command opmnctl status
and I seen instance is down. and It doesnt start. this text is comment for previouse my
post and first post is wrong.
thank you for your attention.
parya

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parya − ⚑
12 years ago

In environment variables set the ORACLE_INSTANCE to \\instances\instance1. Restarted

BI services and to be sure checked the services by using the command opmnctl status
and I seen instance is down. and It doesnt start. this text is comment for previouse my
post and first post is wrong.
thank you for your attention
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thank you for your attention.
parya

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12 years ago

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doesnt start.I start it manually but ,it has error , please help me , I start opmn start all but ,
it doesnt work. please help me

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hi
Actually, I get this error –

Error 500–Internal Server Error

From RFC 2068 Hypertext Transfer Protocol — HTTP/1.1:
10.5.1 500 Internal Server Error
The server encountered an unexpected condition which prevented it from fulfilling the
request.
Aneel Kanuri Says:

May 6th, 2011 at 5:38 pm

Hi Karthi,

https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2010/07/obiee-11gr1-architecture-and-use-of-weblogic-server/ 74/85
12/18/24, 8:59 PM OBIEE 11gR1 : Architecture and Use of WebLogic Server

The above message says – Presentation Server is down. Please login to enterprise
manager console and check what all services are down. I do it , but instance in
coreapplication doesnt start and it is 50 % down. instance in serives doesnt start.I start it
manually but ,it has error , please help me , I start opmn start all but , it doesnt work.
please help me

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parya − ⚑
12 years ago

hi
Actually, I get this error –

Error 500–Internal Server Error

From RFC 2068 Hypertext Transfer Protocol — HTTP/1.1:
10.5.1 500 Internal Server Error
The server encountered an unexpected condition which prevented it from fulfilling the
request.
Aneel Kanuri Says:

May 6th, 2011 at 5:38 pm

Hi Karthi,

The above message says – Presentation Server is down. Please login to enterprise
manager console and check what all services are down. I do it , but instance in
coreapplication doesnt start and it is 50 % down. instance in serives doesnt start.I start it
manually but ,it has error , please help me , I start opmn start all but , it doesnt work.
please help me

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crystal − ⚑
13 years ago

Mark,
how to install OBIEE weblogic and System components on different machine?

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crystal − ⚑
13 years ago

Mark,
how to install OBIEE weblogic and System components on different machine?

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Olu − ⚑
13 years ago

Mark,
Many thanks for brilliant master pieces you always put out on your blog, this happens to
be one of these. Very kind and thoughtful of you.
Ciao Ciao
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Olu

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Olu − ⚑
13 years ago

Mark,
Many thanks for brilliant master pieces you always put out on your blog, this happens to
be one of these. Very kind and thoughtful of you.
Ciao Ciao
Olu

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Kani − ⚑
13 years ago

Hi... try with the port 7001

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Kani − ⚑
13 years ago

Hi... try with the port 7001

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Amit − ⚑
13 years ago

Hi Mark ,

As like other posts from you . this one also really useful information .

I have question . At client location they have 10g environment as follows

1) One single catalog containing pre developed reports and dashboard which is connected
to 5 different BI servers for each region (5 rpd) which in turn connects to 5 different
databases of same structure .
2) Users use different link to connect to their region specific rpd .

I know this may not be the ideal architecture which they have designed before me joining
the project.

Now client wish to migrate to 11g .

What could be the best architecture approach in your opinion ?

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Amit − ⚑
13 years ago

Hi Mark ,

As like other posts from you . this one also really useful information .

https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2010/07/obiee-11gr1-architecture-and-use-of-weblogic-server/ 76/85
12/18/24, 8:59 PM OBIEE 11gR1 : Architecture and Use of WebLogic Server

I have question . At client location they have 10g environment as follows

1) One single catalog containing pre developed reports and dashboard which is connected
to 5 different BI servers for each region (5 rpd) which in turn connects to 5 different
databases of same structure .
2) Users use different link to connect to their region specific rpd .

I know this may not be the ideal architecture which they have designed before me joining
the project.

Now client wish to migrate to 11g .

What could be the best architecture approach in your opinion ?

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Abhijeet Nazar − ⚑
13 years ago

Hi Mark,

Can we deploy OBIEE 11g (BI system components) on other web application server other
than weblogic, like websphere/tomcat? Also can we use fusion middleware with other
application server?
Please provide link if any.

Thanks,
Abhijeet

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Mark Rittman > Abhijeet Nazar − ⚑
13 years ago

Not yet in this release. Support for WebSphere is probably coming in 11.1.1.6.

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Abhijeet Nazar − ⚑
13 years ago

Hi Mark,

Can we deploy OBIEE 11g (BI system components) on other web application server other
than weblogic, like websphere/tomcat? Also can we use fusion middleware with other
application server?
Please provide link if any.

Thanks,
Abhijeet

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Mark Rittman > Abhijeet Nazar − ⚑
13 years ago

Not yet in this release. Support for WebSphere is probably coming in 11.1.1.6.

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Vikas − ⚑
13 years ago

Hi Mark,
I have installed OBIEE 11g. Now I am trying to open the answers page using the url but
unable to launch login page of OBIEE analytics. All the opmn services (presentation server
mainly) are running properly. Please let me know what could be the issue and solution for
the same.

http://localhost:9710/analytics/

Note: I am using 9710 port instead of 9704 (default) port as the presentation server in my
system (OBIEE installation) is running on 9710 port.

Regards,
Vikas.

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Vikas − ⚑
13 years ago

Hi Mark,
I have installed OBIEE 11g. Now I am trying to open the answers page using the url but
unable to launch login page of OBIEE analytics. All the opmn services (presentation server
mainly) are running properly. Please let me know what could be the issue and solution for
the same.

http://localhost:9710/analytics/

Note: I am using 9710 port instead of 9704 (default) port as the presentation server in my
system (OBIEE installation) is running on 9710 port.

Regards,
Vikas.

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Ravi − ⚑
14 years ago

I have installed OBIEE 11g last evening. I was able to connect to the dashboard and run a
simple report also - all before shut down. Now when I try to access OBIEE 11g thru port
:9704 after starting the BI services, I am getting the following error.

"Error 404--Not Found

From RFC 2068 Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1:
10.4.5 404 Not Found

My Weblogic server is working fine but im not able to access EM or ANALYTICS.

When I click Programs > OBI > Start BI Services it opens 3 wndows and says weblogic
server is started and Im able to login to Weblogic server via
"http://localhost:7001/console".
When i start my machine the following services are started automatically:
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e sta t y ac e t e o o g se ces a e sta ted auto at ca y:
1) Oracle WebLogic node Manager
2) OracleDBConsole
3) Oracle Service
4) OracleOraDB11g_home2_TNSListener

The following services are not started:

1) OracleDB11g_home2_ClrAgent
2) OracleJobScheduler
3) Oracle Process Manager(instance1)
4) Oracle VSS Writer Service

can you pls let me know how to start the Weblogic Admin Server?

I have even tried to reinstall and when the installation completes im able to login to "EM",
"weblogic" and "Analytics" also, but once i restart my machine im not able to login to
"Analytics" as well as to "EM".
The process im following is:
When i start the BI Services from Start->Programs->Oracle Business Intelligence->Start BI
Services, i get a popup window where it asks for weglogic user and password, then i have
entered the user as "weblogic" and has give the password entered at the time of
installation, then 2 popups opens and it runs several java files, then im able to login to
weblogic but no luck with "em" or "analytics".
If i try to login to weblogic and try to start the "bi.em", "biadminservices" i get java error
message.

Even i dont get Oracle Logo on the Admin tool also.

Can you pls let me know the repository password also as i have tried with "Admin123" but
no luck.
Every time when i do the installation im able to access all the services for the first time but
once i restart the machine then only weblogic will be working.
I have installed OBIEE 11.1.3 on Windows 7 Ultimate N(32 bit) OS with Oracle11g
Database

Pls let me know if im missing anything here?

Appreciate your help

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Ravi − ⚑
14 years ago

I have installed OBIEE 11g last evening. I was able to connect to the dashboard and run a
simple report also - all before shut down. Now when I try to access OBIEE 11g thru port
:9704 after starting the BI services, I am getting the following error.

"Error 404--Not Found

From RFC 2068 Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1:
10.4.5 404 Not Found

My Weblogic server is working fine but im not able to access EM or ANALYTICS.

When I click Programs > OBI > Start BI Services it opens 3 wndows and says weblogic
server is started and Im able to login to Weblogic server via
https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2010/07/obiee-11gr1-architecture-and-use-of-weblogic-server/ 79/85
12/18/24, 8:59 PM OBIEE 11gR1 : Architecture and Use of WebLogic Server
"http://localhost:7001/console".
When i start my machine the following services are started automatically:
1) Oracle WebLogic node Manager
2) OracleDBConsole
3) Oracle Service
4) OracleOraDB11g_home2_TNSListener

The following services are not started:

1) OracleDB11g_home2_ClrAgent
2) OracleJobScheduler
3) Oracle Process Manager(instance1)
4) Oracle VSS Writer Service

can you pls let me know how to start the Weblogic Admin Server?

I have even tried to reinstall and when the installation completes im able to login to "EM",
"weblogic" and "Analytics" also, but once i restart my machine im not able to login to
"Analytics" as well as to "EM".
The process im following is:
When i start the BI Services from Start->Programs->Oracle Business Intelligence->Start BI
Services, i get a popup window where it asks for weglogic user and password, then i have
entered the user as "weblogic" and has give the password entered at the time of
installation, then 2 popups opens and it runs several java files, then im able to login to
weblogic but no luck with "em" or "analytics".
If i try to login to weblogic and try to start the "bi.em", "biadminservices" i get java error
message.

Even i dont get Oracle Logo on the Admin tool also.

Can you pls let me know the repository password also as i have tried with "Admin123" but
no luck.
Every time when i do the installation im able to access all the services for the first time but
once i restart the machine then only weblogic will be working.
I have installed OBIEE 11.1.3 on Windows 7 Ultimate N(32 bit) OS with Oracle11g
Database

Pls let me know if im missing anything here?

Appreciate your help

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Ram − ⚑
14 years ago

@preshanth,
I am running through the same issue did any of you have a solution for the issue.
Issue: cannot start opmn. I have 11g database and only have obiee 11g on my computer.
Any help guys..

Thanks
Ram

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R
Ram − ⚑
14 years ago

@preshanth,
I am running through the same issue did any of you have a solution for the issue.
Issue: cannot start opmn. I have 11g database and only have obiee 11g on my computer.
Any help guys..

Thanks
Ram

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Aneel Kanuri − ⚑
14 years ago

Hi Karthi,

The above message says - Presentation Server is down. Please login to enterprise
manager console and check what all services are down. I am sure PS will be one of it.
Please start it to fix the issue.

Thanks,
Aneel

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Aneel Kanuri − ⚑
14 years ago

Hi Karthi,

The above message says - Presentation Server is down. Please login to enterprise
manager console and check what all services are down. I am sure PS will be one of it.
Please start it to fix the issue.

Thanks,
Aneel

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Karthi − ⚑
14 years ago

Actually, I get this error -

Error 500--Internal Server Error

From RFC 2068 Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1:
10.5.1 500 Internal Server Error
The server encountered an unexpected condition which prevented it from fulfilling the
request.

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Karthi − ⚑
14 years ago

https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2010/07/obiee-11gr1-architecture-and-use-of-weblogic-server/ 81/85
12/18/24, 8:59 PM OBIEE 11gR1 : Architecture and Use of WebLogic Server
Actually, I get this error -

Error 500--Internal Server Error

From RFC 2068 Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1:
10.5.1 500 Internal Server Error
The server encountered an unexpected condition which prevented it from fulfilling the
request.

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Karthi − ⚑
14 years ago

Mark, My installation was successful with no hitches and I was even able to test the
sample app that comes with OBIEE 11g by logging into presentation services (I
bookmarked the URL) using the weblogic userid and password. I logged out.

Now, I started the BI Services from the start up menu and now, when I used the same URL,
the weblogic page is not even showing up....am I missing something?

You have mentioned above -

"1. Once the WebLogic Server admin server is up and running, your first step is to log into
the WebLogic admin console (typically, at http://localhost:7001/console) and navigate to
the Server view."

1. How will I know if WebLogic Server admin server is running and how do I start it?

2. Should I stop the BI services I just started before doing 1.?

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Karthi − ⚑
14 years ago

Mark, My installation was successful with no hitches and I was even able to test the
sample app that comes with OBIEE 11g by logging into presentation services (I
bookmarked the URL) using the weblogic userid and password. I logged out.

Now, I started the BI Services from the start up menu and now, when I used the same URL,
the weblogic page is not even showing up....am I missing something?

You have mentioned above -

"1. Once the WebLogic Server admin server is up and running, your first step is to log into
the WebLogic admin console (typically, at http://localhost:7001/console) and navigate to
the Server view."

1. How will I know if WebLogic Server admin server is running and how do I start it?

2. Should I stop the BI services I just started before doing 1.?

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Ben − ⚑
14 years ago
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12/18/24, 8:59 PM OBIEE 11gR1 : Architecture and Use of WebLogic Server

Thanks - a very useful overview. A great help to someone who is still quite new to OBIEE.

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Ben − ⚑
14 years ago

Thanks - a very useful overview. A great help to someone who is still quite new to OBIEE.

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Mark Rittman − ⚑
14 years ago

Rahul,

There are not any issues that I know of when migrating RPD and catalog content from a
Windows 32-bit environment to a Linux 64-bit one.

regards, Mark

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Mark Rittman − ⚑
14 years ago

Rahul,

There are not any issues that I know of when migrating RPD and catalog content from a
Windows 32-bit environment to a Linux 64-bit one.

regards, Mark

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Rahul Khullar − ⚑
14 years ago

Thanks for confirming Mark. One more doubt i have. We are starting the development
probably in win 32 bit environment but in prod we have Linux 64 bit. Will this deployment
be smooth or we have to do an extra bit for deploying RPD n Catalog from 32/64 bit
windows to 64 bit Linux.?

Regards,
Rahul

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Rahul Khullar − ⚑
14 years ago

Thanks for confirming Mark. One more doubt i have. We are starting the development
probably in win 32 bit environment but in prod we have Linux 64 bit. Will this deployment
be smooth or we have to do an extra bit for deploying RPD n Catalog from 32/64 bit
windows to 64 bit Linux.?

Regards,
Rahul
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Rahul

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Mark Rittman − ⚑
14 years ago

Rahul

There is a built-in webserver in Weblogic, which is all you need. If you want to enhance
security though and put the webserver into a firewall DMZ, leaving WebLogic in the trusted
area, you can also do this as well by doing a separate install of Apache + the required OHS
modules (see the Enterprise Deployment Guide in the online docs for details).

Mark

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Mark Rittman − ⚑
14 years ago

Rahul

There is a built-in webserver in Weblogic, which is all you need. If you want to enhance
security though and put the webserver into a firewall DMZ, leaving WebLogic in the trusted
area, you can also do this as well by doing a separate install of Apache + the required OHS
modules (see the Enterprise Deployment Guide in the online docs for details).

Mark

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Rahul Khullar − ⚑
14 years ago

Hi Guys,

I have installed OBI11g on my laptop and all the components are working absolutely fine.
While configuring RCU and then OBI Setup, do keep in mind to specify FQDN instead of
localhost (wherever hostname is required). If you have given localhost then Cluster
controller installation will fail and then PS installation will also fail.

a Temp Solution to this failed installation is go and modify NQSClusterConfig file with
FQDN as hostname instead of localhost.

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Rahul Khullar − ⚑
14 years ago

Hi Guys,

I have installed OBI11g on my laptop and all the components are working absolutely fine.
While configuring RCU and then OBI Setup, do keep in mind to specify FQDN instead of
localhost (wherever hostname is required). If you have given localhost then Cluster
controller installation will fail and then PS installation will also fail.

a Temp Solution to this failed installation is go and modify NQSClusterConfig file with
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p g y g
FQDN as hostname instead of localhost.

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Mark Rittman − ⚑
14 years ago

@Pavani,

Can I suggest you read the article? There are one or two clues within it ;-)

Mark

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Mark Rittman − ⚑

https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2010/07/obiee-11gr1-architecture-and-use-of-weblogic-server/ 85/85