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OBIEE 12c Installation Guidelines
By Kumud13-Jan, 2015
Document Information
Document Title OBIEE 12c installation document
Document Version 1.0
Document Issue Date 13thJan 2016
File Name OBIEE 12c installation document step by step
Document History
Version Release Date Changes Author Status1.0 13th Jan 2016 Draft Kumud Thakur To be Reviewed
Abbreviations and Acronyms
Acronyms DescriptionDB Business AnalystOBIEE Change Data CaptureDW Data WarehouseEDW Enterprise DatawarehouseETL Extraction Transformation & LoadODS Operational Data StoreQA Quality Assurance
Table of CONTENTS
1 COMPONENTS:................................................................................................................................................................4
1.1 WEB LOGIC:..................................................................................................................................................................41.2 SYSTEM COMPONENTS:..................................................................................................................................................4
2 OBIEE INSTALLATION PREREQUISITES:...........................................................................................................................5
2.1 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS & SIZING:...................................................................................................................................52.2 DATABASE REQUIREMENTS:.............................................................................................................................................52.3 INSTALLERS REQUIREMENTS:...........................................................................................................................................5
3 INFRASTRUCTURE SETUP................................................................................................................................................6
3.1 INFRASTRUCTURE SETUP GUIDELINES...............................................................................................................................63.2 INFRASTRUCTURE SETUP STEPS......................................................................................................................................7
4 SETUP BI PLATFORM.....................................................................................................................................................11
4.1 OBIEE BI SETUP GUIDELINES.......................................................................................................................................114.2 OBIEE BI INSTALLATION STEPS.....................................................................................................................................124.3 CONFIGURING RCU.....................................................................................................................................................154.4 STEP BY STEP PROCESS OF CONFIGURING RCU...............................................................................................................154.5 STEP BY STEP OBIEE APPLICATION CONFIGURATION.........................................................................................................19
1 Components:
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Web Logic and System components are the main part of the OBIEE. Figure below depicts the high level architecture for Web Logic and System components.
1.1 Web Logic:
Administration Server: [ORACLE_HOME]/user_projects/domains/bi/servers Managed Server: [ORACLE_HOME]/user_projects/domains/bi/servers
1.2 System Components:
OBI Server: [ORACLE_HOME]/user_projects/domains/bi/servers/obis1/logs Presentation Server: [ORACLE_HOME]/user_projects/domains/bi/servers/obips1/logs Catalog Manager: /ORACLE_HOME]/user_projects/domains/bi/servers/obips1/logs/catalogmanagero Scheduler: [ORACLE_HOME]/user_projects/domains/bi/servers/obisch1/logso JavaHost: [ORACLE_HOME]/user_projects/domains/bi/servers/obijh1/logso ClusterController: [ORACLE_HOME]/user_projects/domains/bi/servers/obiccs1/logs
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2 OBIEE Installation Prerequisites:
2.1 System Requirements& Sizing:
Table below depicts desired system requirement for OBIEE 12c installation.Disk Space 500GB or more(necessary for OBIEE)
RAM 16GB or more(Be necessary to view complex dashboards)
Temp Space 1150MB or more
Swap Space 3GB or more
Java 1.8
2.2 Database Requirements:
Oracle Database 12c
2.3 Installers Requirements:
1. Download and install JDK 1.8 from this link, the current release is JDK-8u65
2. Download and install the Web Logic server; installation will be covered in this post fmw_12.2.1.0.0_infrastructure_Disk1_1of1.zip
3. Download and install Oracle Business Intelligence 12c (12.2.1.0.0) consisting of 2 zip file fmw_12.2.1.0.0_bi_windows64_Disk1_1of2.zip fmw_12.2.1.0.0_bi_windows64_Disk1_2of2.zip
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3 Infrastructure Setup
3.1 Infrastructure Setup guidelinesThis section describesthe infrastructure set-up that is required before installation of OBIEE 12c BI Platform. As a part of infrastructure setup, we will need to Install Fusion Middleware 12c.
To accomplishthis, we need to first download the executable jar file from the link http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/bi-enterprise-edition/downloads/business-intelligence-2717951.htmland extract it using windows command prompt using syntax as shown in the figure below:
After initiating file extraction process in command prompt, following screen appears:
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Fig: Executable Jar File Fig: Command Prompt Syntax
3.2 Infrastructure Setup StepsAfter file extraction, Welcome installation screen for Oracle Fusion Middleware 12c will appear as shown in the figure below:
Step 1: Welcome installation screen launches post file extraction
Step 2: Click Next
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Step 3: Specify the OBIEE location path
Step 4: Click Next
Step 5: Click Next
Step 6: Check the check-box
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Step 7: Click YES
Step 8: Click Next
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Step 10: Successful Installation of Oracle Fusion Middleware 12c infrastructure.
4 Setup BI Platform
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4.1 OBIEE BI Setup GuidelinesOBIEE BI Platform can be set-up after successfully setting up BI infrastructure as defined in the previous section. This section defines step by step process of OBIEE BI Platform setup and installation.
For installing the OBIEE BI platform, we need to download and extract the BI Platform executable package from the following path http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middlewareFigure below shows the zipped file / extracted file name and screen that appears after launching (double clicking) the GUI extractor file.
Fig: Installation file name
Fig: Oracle Installer Screen
After launching the application file (GUI self extractor set-up file), Installation welcome page appears that will have step by step navigation screen which will be used to install OBIEE BI Application. Next section covers step by step process of OBIEE BI installation
4.2 OBIEE BI Installation Steps
Step 1: After Installer page opens, click Next
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Step 2: Click Next
Step 3: Specify the ORACLE_HOME Path as shown below
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Step 4: Click Next
Step 5: Click Next
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Step 7: Click Next
Step 8: Click Finish to complete installation of BI Platform
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4.3 Configuring RCUAfter successful installation of OBIEE BI platform, we need to configure RCU for which, GO TO following path:D:\OBIEE12C\Middleware\Oracle_Home\oracle_common\bin where we will find the RCU setup file as shown below:
4.4 Step by step process of Configuring RCU
Follow the step by step process as described below to successfully configure RCU and launch the BI application.
Step 1: On launching the RCU setup file, you will see the welcome page
Step 2: Click Next
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Step 3: Provide database connection details
Step 4: Give the Database Connection Details
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Step 5: Click Next
Step 6: Click Next
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Step 7: Click Next
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Step 8: Click finish to complete the setup
4.5 Step by step OBIEE Application configurationAfter successful RCU configuration, follow the below mentioned steps to configure OBIEE application
Step 1: Go to bin folder
Go to bin folder using the path “D:\OBIEE12C\Middleware\Oracle_Home\bi\bin” and click config.exe as shown below:
Step 2: Click next on Welcome Home Page
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Step 3: Click next
Step 4: Provide username: we can rename the username
Step 5: Provide database credentials
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Step 6: Provide port numbers and click next
Step 7: Choose Oracle sample application and click next
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Step 9: Click Next
Step 10: Click Next
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Step 14: Use welcome page to login
Step 15: Login to your BI environment
Step 16: Start building OBIEE Reports
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