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Built-In OBIEE Load Testing with nqcmd
nqcmd ships with all installations of OBIEE and includes some very useful hidden functionality – the ability to generate load tests against OBIEE. There are lots of ways of generating load against...
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Visualising OBIEE DMS metrics with Graphite
Assuming you have set up obi-metrics-agent and collectl as described in my previous post, you have a wealth of data at your disposal for graphing and exploring in Graphite, including: OS (CPU, disk,...
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BI Forum 2014 preview – No Silver Bullets : OBIEE Performance in the Real World
I’m honoured to have been accepted to speak at this year’s Rittman Mead BI Forum, the sixth year of this expert-level conference that draws some of the best Oracle BI/DW minds together from around the...
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Extended Visualisation of OBIEE Performance Data with Grafana
Recently I wrote about the new obi-metrics-agent tool and how it enables easy collection of DMS data from OBIEE into whisper, the time-series based database behind graphite. In this post I’m going to...
View ArticleMobile App Designer mis-configuration error
I’ve been doing some work recently with OBIEE’s new Mobile App Designer (MAD). It’s a great bit of software that I’m genuinely impressed with, but it’s got its little v1 quirks, and helpful error...
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Visual Regression Testing of OBIEE with PhantomCSS
Earlier this year I wrote a couple of blogs posts (here and here) discussing the topic of automated Regression Testing and OBIEE. One of the points that I was keen make was that OBIEE is a stack of...
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SampleApp v406 – Automatic startup of OBIEE
Last week Oracle released v406 of SampleApp. SampleApp is a one-stop-shop for a demonstration of pretty much any conceivable thing that OBIEE is capable of, and then some more on top of it. It is a...
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OBIEE SampleApp in The Cloud: Importing VirtualBox Machines to AWS EC2
Virtualisation has revolutionised how we work as developers. A decade ago, using new software would mean trying to find room on a real tin server to install it, hoping it worked, and if it didn’t,...
View ArticleFirst-timer tips for Oracle Open World
Last week I had the great pleasure to attend Oracle Open World (OOW) for the first time, presenting No Silver Bullets – OBIEE Performance in the Real World at one of the ODTUG user group sessions on...
View ArticleUsing rlwrap with Apache Hive beeline for improved readline functionality
rlwrap is a nice little wrapper in which you can invoke commandline utilities and get them to behave with full readline functionality just like you’d get at the bash prompt. For example, up/down arrow...
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Monitoring OBIEE with the ELK stack
Monitoring the health of an OBIEE system and diagnosing problems that may occur is a vital task for the system’s administrator and support staff. It’s one that at Rittman Mead we help customers with...
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Analytics with Kibana and Elasticsearch through Hadoop – part 1 – Introduction
Introduction I’ve recently started learning more about the tools and technologies that fall under the loose umbrella term of Big Data, following a lot of the blogs that Mark Rittman has written,...
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Analytics with Kibana and Elasticsearch through Hadoop – part 2 – Getting...
Introduction In the first part of this series I described how I made several sets of data relating to the Rittman Mead blog from various sources available through Hive. This included blog hits from the...
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Analytics with Kibana and Elasticsearch through Hadoop – part 3 – Visualising...
In this post we will see how Kibana can be used to create visualisations over various sets of data that we have combined together. Kibana is a graphical front end for data held in ElasticSearch, which...
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Auditing OBIEE Presentation Catalog Activity with Custom Log Filters
A question that I’ve noticed coming up a few times on the OBIEE OTN forums goes along the lines of “How can I find out who deleted a report from the Presentation Catalog?”. And whilst the BI Server’s...
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OBIEE SampleApp v406 Amazon EC2 AMI – available for public use
I wrote a while ago about converting Oracle’s superb OBIEE SampleApp from a VirtualBox image into an EC2-hosted instance. I’m pleased to announce that Oracle have agreed for us to make the image (AMI)...
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Linux cluster sysadmin — SSH keys
In this short series of blog posts I’m going to take a look at a few very useful tools that can make your life as the sysadmin of a cluster of Linux machines easier. This may be a Hadoop cluster, or...
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Linux cluster sysadmin — Parallel command execution with PDSH
In this series of blog posts I’m taking a look at a few very useful tools that can make your life as the sysadmin of a cluster of Linux machines easier. This may be a Hadoop cluster, or just a plain...
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Linux cluster sysadmin — OS metric monitoring with colmux
In this mini-series of blog posts I’m taking a look at a few very useful tools that can make your life as the sysadmin of a cluster of Linux machines. This may be a Hadoop cluster, or just a plain...
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Concurrent RPD Development in OBIEE
OBIEE is a well established product, having been around in various incarnations for well over a decade. The latest version, OBIEE 11g, was released 3.5 years ago, and there are mutterings of OBIEE 12c...
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