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OBIEE Administration Tool – Import Metadata shows no schemas
Importing Metadata with the Administration Tool The client-only install of the OBIEE 11g Administration Tool is installed with a set of OCI libraries. This means that it can support basic Oracle...
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Downloading OBIEE patches from Oracle with wget
Last week saw the release of OBI 11.1.1.6.2 BP1, and with it, some eight patches to download (seven OBIEE, plus one JDeveloper). A very useful option when downloading the patches, particularly if you...
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Applying patches to OBIEE : 11.1.1.6.2 BP1
The recent release of OBIEE 11.1.1.6.2 BP1 weighs in with a hefty eight individual patches to apply. They use the standard Oracle opatch mechanism. Here we see how to apply the patches, and note any...
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Exalytics – TimesTen and OBIEE connectivity
Two of the key components in Exalytics are OBIEE and the TimesTen in-memory database. Configuring them to work together, particularly in non-standard configurations, can be fiddly, so here is a guide...
View ArticleOBIEE / AD integration – [OBI-SEC-00022] Identity found … but could not be...
A quick blog post to record for future Googlers a problem I encountered today. I was configuring OBIEE 11.1.1.6 to use Microsoft Active Directory (MSAD) as an Authentication Provider, following the...
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Automated Monitoring of OBIEE in the Enterprise – an overview
A lot of time is given to the planning, development and testing of OBIEE solutions. Well, hopefully it is. Yet sometimes, the resulting deployment is marked Job Done and chucked over the wall to the...
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An introduction to monitoring OBIEE with Nagios
Introduction This is the second post in a mini-series on monitoring OBIEE. The previous post, Automated Monitoring of OBIEE in the Enterprise – an overview, looked at the overview and theory to why and...
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Advanced monitoring of OBIEE with Nagios
Introduction In the previous articles in this series, I described an overview of monitoring OBIEE, and then a hands-on tutorial for setting up Nagios to monitor OBIEE. Nagios is an Enterprise Systems...
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Incremental refresh of Exalytics aggregates using native BI Server capabilities
One of the key design features of the Exalytics In-Memory Machine is the use of aggregates (pre-calculated summary data), held in the TimesTen In-Memory database. Out of the box (“OotB”) these...
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Testing aggregate navigation on OBIEE and Exalytics
One of OBIEE’s many great strengths is aggregate navigation; the ability to choose from a list of possible tables the one which will probably give the optimal performance for a given user query. Users...
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MDS XML versus MUDE Part 2: What is MUDE?
Mark Rittman once joked during a presentation on OBIEE and SCM that “MUDE” (multiuser development environment) was the closest thing to a dirty word in the OBIEE documentation. I know many people who...
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Embedding a D3 Visualisation in OBIEE
In this blog entry, my first since joining the company as a consultant a little over a month ago, I will be taking you through the process of embedding a D3 visualisation into OBIEE. In my first few...
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MDS XML versus MUDE Part 3: Configuring MDS XML with Git
In the previous installment of this series, I gave an overview of MUDE (multi-user development environment), and described it’s strengths and weaknesses, hopefully presenting a fair assessment on both...
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Patch OBIEE the quicker way – with OPatch napply
Since 2012, Oracle’s patching strategy for OBIEE has been Bundle Patches released approximately once a month. These bundle patches are usually cumulative ones, applied on top of the .0 version of the...
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Learn OBIEE 11.1.1.7 from the experts!
Here at RittmanMead we write and deliver our own courses on Oracle’s products including OBIEE, ODI, OWB and EPM. Our trainers also consult and deliver projects, meaning that our training is based on...
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The Rittman Mead scripts github repository
Here at RittmanMead we’re big fans of working smarter, not harder. One of the ways we do this is not re-inventing the wheel. There’s only so many ways that products such as OBI and ODI can be...
View ArticleTimesTen and OBIEE port conflicts on Exalytics
Introduction Whilst helping a customer set up their Exalytics server the other day I hit an interesting problem. Not interesting as in hey-this-will-cure-cancer, or oooh-big-data-buzzword interesting,...
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Tips and Tricks for the OBIEE linux sysadmin
As well as industry-leading solution architecture, consultancy and training on Oracle BI, here at Rittman Mead we also provide expert services in implementation and support of such systems. In this...
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OBIEE “Act As” vs “Impersonate”
There will come a point in the lifecycle of an OBIEE deployment when one user will need to access another user’s account. This may be to cover whilst a colleague is on leave, or a support staff trying...
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Collecting Usage Tracking Data with Metric Extensions in EM12c
In my previous post I demonstrated how OBIEE’s Usage Tracking data could be monitored by EM12c through a Service Test. It was pointed out to me that an alternative for collecting the same data would be...
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