Upgrading OBIEE from 10G to 11G and post upgrade activities Part 1

So we have successfully installed OBIEE 11G in my linux machine and we even applied a patch successfully,  now let's take what I have in the 10G environment, the rpd, web catalog files and turn it into 11G version. An upgrade process is called for. After installing 11g, in its directory under 'Oracle_BI1/Bin' folder, there is the upgrade utility, so just start running it: $ Oracle_BI1/Bin: ./ua The upgrade utility window pops up, which...

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Applying patches for OBIEE 11G

After installing OBIEE 11.1.1.6.0, I have decided to apply a big patch, as a result of this action it will upgrade my current version to 11.1.1.6.5. I will go over how this is done in my environment. The current version after the installation: Now comes the steps: 1. Download and extract the following zip files to my linux machine and unzip them p    14665284_111160_Linux-x86-64.zip  p    14696072_111160_Generic.zip  p...

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Install OBIEE 11G on Linux part 3 --- Installing OBIEE 11G

Previously RCU has been run and completed, now it's time to install OBIEE 11G. Oh, I forgot to mention that the version I am installing is 11.1.1.6.0, which is pretty buggy. Remember those 3 disks or 5 zip files we unzipped into 'bishiphome' folder? We will go there (under Disk1) and run the installer file to launch the installation wizard: Here are the rest of the steps: 1. Choose Enterprise Install: 2. Checking prerequisites and passing: 3....

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Install OBIEE 11G on Linux part 2 --- Installing RCU

From the previous entry, we have covered all of the prerequisites and getting the system fully ready, the only thing missing from there was pressing the button. So now, let's press that button and kick off RCU. Because the 11G architecture is different, before the actual installation of 11G, repository and schema need to be created and by referenced later during the 11G installation, therefore this step must be done before 11G installation. 1....

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Install OBIEE 11G on Linux part 1

Hello Today I want to talk about the detail process that I went through to install OBIEE 11G and setting up the entire OBIEE development environment. In my case, I was given a Linux machine and told that I was free to do anything with it as long as I install OBIEE 11G there and use it as development environment. Doing it from scratch forced me to evaluate everything about the environment, so let me start by going over the prerequisites...

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Starting OBIEE 11G Service Components --- For Server bi_server1, Node Manager Associated with Machine not reachable

Hello again. So I have installed OBIEE 11G, now what do I do to bring everything up so I can log in and see the 11G dashboards? I am assuming you have the basic understand of OBIEE 11G architecture, or at least you know the relationship between weblogic and BI Components. So from there, the first time we do is to start the weblogic services. Take my Linux environment for instance, you navigate to the following directory and run the weblogic start...

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