OBIEE 12c Slow Startup and Shutdown within Linux When the entropy pool is low, then the OS needs to add bytes back to the pool. This can be a blocking operation and cause hangs or slowness when performing such tasks such as using nodemanger, starting Weblogic, etc Check the default system entropy pool $ cat…
You can no longer upload OBIEE RPD files using the Weblogic Enterprise Manager console. You now upload the RPD via a shell script, or windows batch file if uploading from a client machine. Trial and error suggests copying the RPD file to the server, then running the upload script is safer and faster than attempting…
On occasions when deploying the RPD file to a 12c OBIEE environment, the upload will fail, and often no actual errors to say why. Some tips below if this happens. Workaround shutdown the entire environment i.e. stop.sh cd $domainhome/bidata/service_instance/ssi/metadata/datamodel/customizations rm *.rpd cd default rm default_diff.xml touch default _diff.xml Now restart via “start.sh”. This will deploy and…
OBIEE can suffer Stuck threads, which is often hard to get to the bottom of the route cause. In searching for helpful documents some reference materials below. Oracle Load Test Tool – could be used for Pre-Production Load testing OBIEE: Load Testing OBIEE Using Oracle Load Testing (OLT) 12.x (Doc ID 1611188.1) Tuning notes OBIEE…
Some useful docs can be found on oracle support :- DOCID : 819373.1 – Data Model DOCID : 1274680.1 – Data Lineage
A good reference site for how best to create the correct chain length in a jks :- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16062072/how-to-add-certificate-chain-to-keystore Essentially, cat all pem files into one pem file cat cert.pem chain.pem fullchain.pem >all.pem Then create a p12 file, this can then be used to import into a keystore, then the chaining count should be correct openssl…
When you create an XML RPD patch from one RPD, in order to apply to a second RPD, you may find the application of the patch generates a warning such as :- [nQSError: 92006] Could not resolve the object “xxxxxx” (UID: e8f102b4-0c61-1000-8567-0a1fe5160000) So this occurs when the object in question i.e. “xxxxxx” is actually common…
The 12c baseline validation tool is useful for comparing dashboards once migrated from 11g to 12c. The BVT tool is distributed in the OBIEE 12c Client tools. It can be found @ your obiee 12c client tools directory i.e. C:\obiee12c\bi\components\oracle.bi.bvt Runtime :- cd C:\obiee12c\bi\components\oracle.bi.bvt\OracleBI-BVT bin\obibvt -config testconfig.xml -deployment PreUpgrade The testconfig.xml file is configurable, you can…
Connecting to Weblogic ( WLST ) export PATH=$PATH:$WL_HOME/server/bin cd $WL_HOME/server/bin . ./setWLSEnv.sh java weblogic.WLST Should then be-able to connect with the following command, type exit() to quit connect(‘weblogic’,’Admin123′,’localhost:7001′) To get a list of users from the internal LDAP, first create this properties file <details.properties> admin.url=t3://localhost:7001 admin.userName=weblogic admin.password=Admin123 ########## User Name which wants to get listed…
There could be a small bug in OBIEE12c, whereby if an analysis contains more than 10/11 fields, of which 2 perhaps are hierarchy drills, when you attempt to drill on the hierarchy you may receive a drill error i.e. NQSError 14061 or similar. See attached word document for reproduction of the issue seen even using…