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 Empty rpd
- Now Stop the presentation services via “stop.sh -i obips”
- Retry the initial upload of the rpd
- If successful restart the presentations services.