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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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OBIEE 11.1.1.6.2 BP1 – Logical SQL Diagnostic view
New in 11.1.1.6.2 BP1 is the Logical SQL Diagnostic view for a report. There’s nothing in the release notes about it, nor the documentation, so it’s possible that it’s a debug option that ought to have...
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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...
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OBIEE / FMW and networking on DHCP hosts
FMW can be a bit of a sensitive soul when it comes to networking. Something that always seems to antagonise it is running within a VM (both VMWare Fusion and VirtualBox, since you ask). Being on-site...
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Advanced Presentation Services settings for OBIEE testing & development
As John Minkjan pointed out a while ago, the XSD (XML Schema) for the OBIEE configuration files can yield some interesting things. I’ve been looking at obips_config_base.xsd and found the following...
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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Alternatives to the Summary Advisor for Refreshing Exalytics Aggregates
One of the several elements of Exalytics’ power comes from it holding pre-calculated (aggregated) data in the TimesTen for Exalytics In-Memory Database. Exalytics comes with a tool called the Summary...
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Incremental refresh of Exalytics Aggregates using TimesTen
Introduction One of the key reasons that Exalytics can deliver sub-second response times is the use of TimesTen in-memory database to hold data pre-calculated to various levels of aggregation as...
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Performance and OBIEE – part II – Test – Define
Take the first tentative steps along the yellow brick road of investigating performance and OBIEE with this jump into the nitty gritty of how we should define a performance test. An overview of...
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Performance and OBIEE – part III – Test – Design
Having defined our test, we can now design it. Wordplay? Not really. Regardless of how we run our tests, we’ve got to define up front what it is we are testing. Once we’ve got that, we can then work...
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Performance and OBIEE – part IV – Test – Build
This article is the fourth in a series about performance and OBIEE. In previously articles I described how test design should be approached, and in this article I explain in detail how to use some of...
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Performance and OBIEE – part I – Introduction
Performance matters. Performance really matters. And performance can actually be easy, but it takes some thinking about. It can’t be brute-forced, or learnt by rote, or solved in a list of Best...
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Performance and OBIEE – part V – Execute and Measure
Having designed and built our tests, we now move on to looking at the real nitty-gritty – how we run them and collect data. The data that we collect is absolutely crucial in getting comprehensible test...
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Performance and OBIEE – part VI – Analysing results
This part of the OBIEE performance cycle is the one which arguably matters most. Having defined what we’re going to test, built a means by which to test it, and executed that test, we now need to sift...
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Performance and OBIEE – part VII – Optimising OBIEE performance (“Tuning”)
Potato potato? When I first drafted this blog post, I gave it the title “Tuning”, rather than “Optimising”. Tuning is the word used so often in the context of performance, but it can actually be a bit...
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Performance and OBIEE – Summary and FAQ
This article is the final one in a series about OBIEE and performance. You can find the previous posts here: Introduction Test – Define Test – Design Test – Build Execute Analyse Optimise Summary The...
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Upgrading OBIEE to 11.1.1.7
OBIEE 11.1.1.7 was released earlier this week, and brings with it the usual delights and challenges of the Fusion Middleware (FMW) platform. Because OBIEE is part of Fusion Middleware, and because it...
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