OBIEE 11gR1 : Installation and Initial Configuration
August 14th, 2010 by Mark Rittman
Venkat broke the news earlier today that the full, production release of OBIEE 11gR1 is now available for download on OTN, and in this posting, I’m going to look at the process of installing and initially configuring OBIEE 11gR1. Now I’m not going to go through every step in the process as it’s fairly self-explanatory, but I wanted to pick out some of the changes since OBIEE 10g, highlight some of the interesting bits and talk about what it takes to set up a self-contained demo environment. In later postings I’ll be looking at setting up the RPD, managing the environment using Enterprise Manager, and taking a look at some of the new front-end features.
In my demo environment, I’ve got Oracle Database 11gR2 already installed on Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition 32-bit. I’m actually using VMWare Fusion (as I’m on a Mac; on Windows I’d use VMWare Workstation or Server instead) to which I’ve allocated 4GB of RAM. This is the first big change compared to OBIEE 10g, which you could generally get to run, along with a local Oracle database, within 1.5GB – 2.GB of RAM. We’ll see later on just what’s taking up the additional memory.
There are two main stages to the OBIEE 11gR1 installation:
- Firstly, we use the RCU (Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g Repository Creation Utility) to set up the BIPLATFORM schema to support OBIEE 11gR1, and
- Then, we install OBIEE 11gR1, including the Oracle WebLogic Server J2EE application server that takes the place of OC4J and Oracle Application Server 10g in this release.
If you’ve ever installed any Fusion Middleware 10g or 11g products (such as Oracle Application Server 10g, or some of the new 11g products such as Discoverer 11g), you’ll be familiar with the Repository Creation Utility. This is a Java application, like the Universal Installer, that sets up one or more schemas that need to be in place for the products you are installing. For this release, you can install the required schema into either Oracle Database 9i, 10g or 11g, Microsoft SQL Server or IBM DB/2. I start the RCU, select the option to create schemas (as opposed to dropping them), and then choose the Oracle Database option and enter the required credentials.
The RCU then carries out a quick check on the database you intend to use (my 11gR2 database didn’t need any changes, and I’d installed it fresh with the data warehousing option), and then prompts you to choose which schemas to install. This version of the RCU has an entry for Oracle Business Intelligence, which has a single entry for a component called Business Intelligence Platform. The MDS schema under AS Common Schemas is selected automatically, and is required by the underlying Fusion Middleware platform.
The prefix section is so that you can install multiple sets of schemas for different environments on the same database, but for now I leave this at the default value of DEV, for “development”. In OBIEE 11gR1, this DEV_BIPLATFORM schema contains all of the tables that in prior releases, were in schemas such as S_NQ_ACCT, S_NQ_SCHED and the BI Publisher scheduler schema, and it also contains tables that are used by OBIEE 11gR1 additional products such as the EPM Suite Calculation Manager, Oracle Real Time Decisions and other supporting products.
The database is then checked for compatibility, and then another screen is displayed, where you can fine-tune the names given to the tablespaces used for the DEV_BIPLATFORM schema plus other ones that are needed by Fusion Middleware 11g. I just leave these at the default values and allow a separate tablespace to be created for each schema. The RCU then creates the tablespaces and temporary tablespaces, and then creates the schemas and their tables. This process replaces all of the separate scripts that you have to run to set up the Delivers scheduler tables, the BI Publisher scheduler tables, the usage tracking accounting tables and so on that you had to do as post-install steps with OBIEE 10g. Once this is done, you’re ready to install OBIEE 11g proper.
Once the RCU process is complete, it’s time to install OBIEE 11g proper. After starting up the OBIEE 11gR1 installer, the first big change compared to 11g is that we’re now using the 11g version of the Oracle Installer (as used in Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g, and Oracle Database 11gR2) as opposed to the old Siebel-derived one. This new installer prompts you to use the RCU if you’ve not done so already, and lists out the tasks down the left hand side that you’ll need to complete.
The first page proper of the new installer asks you to select from one of three install types:
- Simple Install, which is what most developers testing out the software will require, installs a basic OBIEE 11gR1 system along with WebLogic Server, using default values for things like domain names, port numbers and the like.
- Enterprise Install gives you a few more options than a Simple Install, letting you customize the name of the WebLogic domain, the WebLogic Managed Server, the ports that are used and so on. If you need to vary away from the defaults, or “scale out” an existing installation, choose this option (but for most developers, Simple Install will be fine)
- Software Only Install will install the OBIEE 11gR1 software (but not WebLogic Server, you need to have this already installed), but doesn’t set up any “instances” of OBIEE, a similar situation to when you install the Oracle Database binaries but don’t configure a database instance.
Selecting the Simple Install option will move you on to the next page for the installer, which then prompts you to select a “middleware home” for your installation. All of the OBIEE 11gR1 installation will go into this (there are no longer OracleBI, or OracleBIData directories), including the binaries and the “OBIEE instance” files, creating a separation in 11gR1 between those files that are static – the binaries and configuration file templates – and those that change over time, which include the configuration files, repositories, XML files and web catalog.
Pressing Next then brings you onto a screen that prompts you for a username and password for the WebLogic Server, and OBIEE, administrator. In 11gR1 there is no longer the concept of an Administrator user, and instead you create an administrator user here that becomes the default admin login into OBIEE (and the various WebLogic Server administration tools). I choose the username weblogic password welcome1, and press Next to proceed.
I’m now asked to confirm the products that I want to install. In later releases of OBIEE 11g, this list may include products such as Oracle Essbase and the other EPM Suite products, but for now you can select Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition, Business Intelligence Publisher, and Oracle Real Time Decisions. I select all three and press Next to proceed.
Next I’m prompted to enter connection details to the database in which I set up the DEV_BIPLATFORM schema. I look back to the connection details I used for the RCU and enter these details, pressing Next to continue.
After running a couple of checks and asking me for my Metalink login (optional, can be used for notification about available patches), the installer then summarises what it’s going to do next, and invites me to press the Install button to start the installation.
The installation process then begins, and starts by installing the supporting WebLogic Server files required for the infrastructure layer.
It then proceeds to install what in 11gR1 are called the “System Components”, which in this release are still C++ applications but are managed now by WebLogic.
Once installation has finished, the configuration process starts. Initially, this is concerned with instantiating the WebLogic domain and managed server, together with supporting technologies such as Enterprise Manager and Oracle Web Services Manager.
Then, the BI Server, BI Presentation Server and other system components are registered within the WebLogic Server managed server, and OPMN is configured so that it can stop, start and monitor them (more on this in future blog posts).
Other components that were included as part of the components I selected are then configured, and in the screenshot below we can see the parts of OBIEE that run as J2EE applications (referred to in 11gR1 as “Java Components” as opposed to “System Components”) being deployed to the WebLogic Server managed server. Both the Java components and system components will later on be managed by Enterprise Manager and the WebLogic Server admin console.
Assuming all of this completes without error, you are finally presented with a summary of what’s been installed on your system, like this:
So what does the Enterprise Install option do then, beyond and above this? Let’s go back to the start of the installation process and see what extra choices we get.
After selecting the Enterprise Install option, you are firstly asked whether you want to Create a new BI System, or Scale Out BI System. We’ll get onto the scale out option in a moment, but for now we select the option to install a new system, and enter the WebLogic / OBIEE administration user details, and also in this instance give a name to the WebLogic domain that’ll be set up.
I choose the same user name and password as before for this account, and leave the domain name at the default. Pressing Next then brings me to the next set of choices, where I supply the location of the middleware home, the domain home and the instance home and name, which is where the various configuration and repository files will be stored for the new OBIEE instance.
After this screen, you are then prompted to select from the same product list as in the Simple Install option. After selecting the same products as before, the next new screen is one where you can either choose to use the default port numbers, or you can point the installer to a file that contains your own custom port mappings (this is a standard process in the Oracle Universal Installer, but the Simple Install option just used the defaults).
Beyond this point, the installation process is the same as with the Simple Install option, and the installer will continue to install, and then configure, the options you have chosen.
Going back a moment to the start of the Enterprise Install option, you may remember that there was an option to “scale out” an existing OBIEE system. What this does is allows you to add more OBIEE and WebLogic components to an existing OBIEE 11gR1 domain, and we’ll look at this option in more detail in a later blog posting. In a similar vein, the third option, for a Software Only Install, lets you install just the OBIEE components (system components and Java components) into an existing WebLogic installation, like this:
This is useful if you’ve already got a WebLogic Server installation somewhere and you want to configure it to run OBIEE as well, and we’ll look at these last two areas in some future blog postings when we address the topic of scalability, clustering and high availability. For now though, we’ve got an OBIEE 11gR1 system installed, and once we’ve done a reboot (not mandatory, but can often free up a bit of memory after the install process) we can select the Run BI Services entry from the Oracle Business Intelligence Windows Start Menu entry to start all the processes.
If you take a look at the list of Windows services before this menu entry is selected, you can see that the list of servers – Oracle BI Server, Oracle BI Presentation Server and so on – that were listed as part of 10g, have now been replaced by two new ones in this release.
Oracle Process Manager (Instance1) is the service for OPMN, and controls the status of the system components that have replaced the individual services for components such as the BI Server and Presentation Server. Oracle WebLogic NodeManager (c_Middleware_wlserver_10.3) is a service that starts up and shuts down the individual WebLogic Server managed servers, not strictly necessary on a one-node system but essential for multi-node systems, so that an individual WebLogic Server admin server can start up remote managed servers.
Once you run the Windows Start Menu entry, a DOS box opens up which allows you to type in the WebLogic Server admin username and password, which you set earlier on in the install process.
Once this is entered, a WebLogic Server script then starts the admin server, then the managed server, the OPMN service any other components, and about five minutes later you should be able to log into OBIEE 11g, again using the WebLogic Server admin username and password.
So there we have it. Tomorrow, I’ll be writing about basic OBIEE 11gR1 administration processes including a guide to where all the key files have gone, which will then be followed next week by a series of postings by Venkat on new features in the BI Server 11g.
August 14th, 2010 at 9:45 pm
Mark, Very nice write-up! I was just going through the same scenario on OEL5x32. You may also want to mention the minimum JDK 1.6_18/JRocket 1.6_17 pre-requisite as a starter.
It may not be obvious to some that are used to just firing up the installer.
The certification matrix is on OTN here:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/bi-enterprise-edition/bi-11gr1certmatrix-166168.html
Again, very nice write-up!
Regards,
Steve
August 14th, 2010 at 10:53 pm
Just installed it on a Windows 2008 R2 64 bit box with 4GB of RAM and a Core 2 Duo 2.5Ghz and it took about 4-5 minutes for it to load completely. I though that being that it was 64 bits would speed things up a bit, but I see that there are lots of things that only run at 32 bit. I also run the db from the same machine, but previous versions of OBIEE have been much lighter in that sense than this one.
Thanks for the write up. Great Work.
Pablo
August 15th, 2010 at 4:43 am
@mark
Excellent post thanks mark,every step in installation has changes in it,Should look into it.Can this be installed on Windows7?
August 15th, 2010 at 7:35 am
Thanks for the detailed post. Completed installing it. Did Enterprise Install – During the Configuration Tools step one configuration failed, it looks something like “optnctl coreapplication…obips1″ I retried 3 times but no use. Do this causes any problem in future?
When can we expect your book on OBIEE 11g?? I am waiting for it…….
Thanks,
Ven
August 15th, 2010 at 9:34 am
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An error occurred during authentication. Try again later or contact your system administrator.
I am getting this error while trying to login. I used weblogic credentials. I am able to login to Weblogic console but not to BI Presentation services………Please help….
Thanks,
Ven
August 16th, 2010 at 11:34 am
I will try to install the same.
August 16th, 2010 at 2:14 pm
So, just to get a demo env. going you need 4Gb RAM minimum? So, a prod env for a SME type installation would easily be around 8Gb to start with?
As part of your beta-testing did you guys run any benchmarks on system sizing?
Thanks.
August 16th, 2010 at 6:20 pm
Did you run across any errors when installing this? When I enter the Administrator Details information, it will not proceed. The section label turns red, but there is no error message
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/VQkWIMWYErCgXOLfxsYtwA?feat=directlink
August 16th, 2010 at 6:38 pm
Joe,
What password did you put in? I think there are restrictions on what password you can use -I generally use “welcome1″, I think there has to be a number as well as letters.
Mark
August 16th, 2010 at 9:13 pm
I did use welcome1. I restarted the installation and selected “Enterprise Install” and it seems to be working now. I am still waiting for it to wrap up the install.
August 17th, 2010 at 8:51 am
Really very Nice ! I Will try to install this.
August 17th, 2010 at 8:53 am
CAn we install OBIEE 10g and 11g on same machine..what about upgrade?
August 18th, 2010 at 11:57 am
Hi,
When it goes to configration progress step,
Create ASInstance failed and all step related to opmnctl failed too,I think something is wrong.Is there any thing to be done first?
August 19th, 2010 at 2:44 am
I encounter the same the error as Victor, when installing on W2k3R2 SP2 server.
August 19th, 2010 at 2:55 am
I can’t create ASInstance ,it confused me for a few days,is there any one knows?Help~!~
August 22nd, 2010 at 3:56 pm
Hi Venkat,
Its really fantastic document. I have a question here.. I can see lot of folders inside the rcu home.. So where i need to start??
Best,
Balaji
August 24th, 2010 at 3:32 pm
Want to confirm whether all 9i,10g version Oracle DB are supported.
As the certification matrix shows only the following(in Oracle DB) are supported.
Oracle 10.2.0.4+, Oracle 11.1.0.7+, Oracle 11.2.0.1+
I’ve installed Oracle DB 10.2.0.1 but had no luck with RCU. It has thrown error.
August 25th, 2010 at 5:22 am
Manage to install OBIEE 11g on Win2008R2 64bits (please note have to install oracle client too), with DB sitting on another server, BUT found 11g buggy. Cannot launch AdminTools.exe, cannot view error in Answer request. Disappointed.
August 26th, 2010 at 4:18 am
@Victor
This error is due to insufficient hardware resources. Upgrade RAM/processor and try again…
@Balaji Conda Shankar
navigate to rcuHome\Bin\rcu.bat
@Raghu
follow the certification matrix, I would recommend you to install repository on 11g DB, as other fusion middleware infrastructure (SOA) related repositories are well supported in that version. OBI 11g will be able to integrate with SOA processes and this middleware foundation would prove vital.
@Joe Somerlott
I also did get that error, i believe ..its some error in unzipping your disks.. i suppose…:-)
August 26th, 2010 at 2:56 pm
Installing obiee11g on my local machine at home and I have had a few issues. Firstly, I had to choose the Enterprise Install because I got the same issue as Joe Somerlott above, then finally installation starts and it gets to 98%(Installation Progress), with message Executing post install scripts… This has been running for over 30mis now(just that bit). Dont know whetehr to start again or not. Why are oracle tools so flaky to install?
August 27th, 2010 at 11:17 pm
Do I need to get the OBIEE 11g installer separately? I could not find anything on the site? Or it’s just part of the installation files?
August 29th, 2010 at 12:09 pm
When i select the simple installation its asking me for the username & password.
default user name is : weblogic
i am inputing the password welcome321, its not working. i am unable to reach to next screen. please suggest me.
Regards
Sohail
August 29th, 2010 at 12:20 pm
I am facing the same below issue, please suggest me.
Did you run across any errors when installing this? When I enter the Administrator Details information, it will not proceed. The section label turns red, but there is no error message
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/VQkWIMWYErCgXOLfxsYtwA?feat=directlink
August 30th, 2010 at 4:03 pm
I have my opmn services up and and also the Oracle Weblogic_Node Manager. Still the presentation services does not come up
What can be the issue ?
August 31st, 2010 at 10:36 am
Hi,if the installation fails during post configuration steps(such as the opmnctl steps to start up the OBI cluster controller and the Presentation server) ,what could be the possible reason? Point to note is I was connected to a ISP that gives a dynamic IP to my machine while I did the installation. Does this affect the configuration? I hope not as I have never faced this with OBIEE installation before.Also , I did a simple install for my laptop for demo purposes. Can anyone help with this problem?
Regards,
Samrat
August 31st, 2010 at 10:39 am
Just to let you know I am installing OBIEE 11g on MS Vista with SP1. This should meet the certification requirements for OBIEE11g, doesn’t it?
Best Regards,
Samrat Mitra
August 31st, 2010 at 10:46 pm
@Victor and KT:
I too was getting failure at the Create ASInstance step on a WinXP laptop, no matter how many times I reghosted the box to try afresh. The odd thing is that it worked a week ago on this very machine and I was kicking myself for starting over from scratch.
Not a lot in metalink or on the web for OBIEE 11g yet, but all the Middleware Forms and Reports and other 11g articles I found seemed to point to the hosts file or dns lookup issues when this step fails.
I have my loopback adapter set to 10.10.10.10 and it was hard-coded in my c:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file. No matter how many times I looked at my settings, everything appeared fine.
Finally I went into the server room and looked at another XP laptop configured as a test bench OBIEE 10g “server.” Here I saw my error: I had keyed two hostnames for the loopback adapter, but I had listed the fully-qualified one (myhost.us.oracle.com) second instead of first. Once I reghosted the machine and switched the order in the hosts file, my install worked fine and continued right past the Creating ASInstance step.
Sharing this in case others can verify that this has something to do with the Creating ASInstance failed errors.
Here’s what my hosts file looks like now (note the order of the hostnames for my loopback adapter):
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows….
127.0.0.1 localhost
10.10.10.10 myhost.us.oracle.com myhost
-paul
September 1st, 2010 at 11:53 am
Thanks everyone for the feedback so far. It’s very interesting.
For me, the bit that’s surprising me is how many problems people are having with the installation. We were on the beta since about May, and pretty much all of the beta releases (except one that had a known issue) installed fine for me, with none of the issues that have been reported. Others within RM have mentioned a couple of the issues, but not on the scale that have been reported here and elsewhere on the web.
I thought it’d be worth outlining how I set up OBIEE, at least so I can give a reference point.
1. I installed using both the simple install, and the enterprise install. I’ve also performed the enterprise/scale out BI system install with no problems.
2. The OS I installed on was Windows Server 2003 SP2, 32-bit.
3. I assigned 4GB of RAM to the VM, which sometimes was taken down to 3GB after the install. I’m not sure if the full 4GB was even used really, as it’s 32-bit Windows Server.
4. I installed it using VMWare Fusion 3, on the Mac, with the Mac host having 8GB of RAM.
5. For the Windows Server environment, the only pre-install configuration I performed was to install the Microsoft loopback adapter, assign a static IP address to it, install the VMWare tools, and install Oracle Database 11gR2 with the data warehouse install template.
6. The install of OBIEE would always go flawlessly, without requiring restarts of OPMN etc.
7. After the install, I’d need to add the entries under C:\Middleware\Oracle_BI1\network\ before the BI Server could see my database
I’ve also carried out an install using OEL5 and the 64-bit version of OBIEE 11g; again, there have been no problems, with a 4GB VM and an 8GB host system.
I suspect most problems people are having are falling into four categories:
- trying to install into an environment without enough RAM – this is causing processes to fail to start up, affecting the post-install config steps
- using marginally-supported OS versions – Vista, XP etc – I haven’t looked carefully at the supported systems doc, but I suspect these are not supported. I also always try to use Windows Server 2003 as (a) it’s a server OS and (b) it doesn’t have all the user access control guff that came with Vista/Windows Server 2008
- problems around networking – IPV6 as someone else mentioned; not setting up the loopback adapter, other other misc. networking and/or host naming issues
- Trying to do things like installing just the admin tool on its own, trying to run with certain service shut down etc – basically, the install process in 11.1.1.3 is pretty basic, can’t really be deviated from, I’ve not tried these but i’m not surprised they don’t work
What I will do now is try and collate together, from this thread, the comments on this blog, and other blog posts by the likes of Chet etc to see if we can start to categorize these standard install issues, and come up with a set of troubleshooting steps, and common resolutions, for them. I’ll post the results of this on this blog, and on the OBIEE EMG site where a similar conversation is going on :
http://groups.google.com/group/obiee-enterprise-methodology/browse_thread/thread/6b06be35d108b282
once I pull them together.
thanks
Mark
September 1st, 2010 at 1:21 pm
Hi All,
Following-up from my email, I’ve set up a public Google Docs spreadsheet where we can collate the install experiences we’ve had, and try and work out if there’s a pattern to what works, and what doesn’t work, and if there are categories of problems that people are hitting that we can try and find answers for collectively.
I’ve produced an input form for the spreadsheet, which is here:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/a/rittmanmead.com/viewform?formkey=dDJhVTFfMmc3ekpYczVQWW45ZGNJNkE6MQ
It would be great if anyone who’s done an install can complete this, as it’ll allow us to relate the successes or not with the host OS, amount of RAM, etc etc.
The spreadsheet itself can be accessed from here:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Alsb7uc3oet7dDJhVTFfMmc3ekpYczVQWW45ZGNJNkE&hl=en
The spreadsheet is open to the public, and editable, so be careful (but also record anything that’s of use).
Once we get sufficient responses in, we can try and draw some conclusions
thanks
Mark
September 20th, 2010 at 1:51 pm
I am installing OBIEE 11g on window server 2003 R2,at the part of installation it hangs at 98%, and throw an error
‘export’ is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Invalid weblogic home specified: D:\Middleware\wlserver_10.3
I am able to install OBIEE 11g on window vista.
Please let me know if someone face the similar kind of issue
Thanks
Aseem
October 1st, 2010 at 9:08 pm
I have made 2 passes at installing OBI 11 on Win7_Ultimate…I have experienced no issues through the config of RCU or client install (Simple Install) until step 11 where the configuration process takes effect.
Until now, the elapsed time to get through step 1 – 10 has been 18 minutes and change, however, at step 11, I see no ‘progress’ in creating a domain…
Do I need to manually kick off a process to get this step initiated or am I just being impatient? How long should step 11 take given an i9 processor with 9GB RAM?
Thank you for your reponses,
Jonathan
October 1st, 2010 at 9:49 pm
Server – Windows 2003 VM Server
Database – Oracle 11g
OBIEE – 11.1.1,3
RCU installation – completed
I have a static ip address for my server as well.
I cannot get past the OBIEE installation step . it fails at 98% . here is what the error log says. Ay ideas?
‘export’ is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Invalid weblogic home specified: c:\OBIEE\wlserver_10.3
at oracle.as.install.bi.installaction.NodeManagerService._validate(NodeManagerService.java:64)
at oracle.as.install.bi.installaction.NodeManagerService.install(NodeManagerService.java:32)
at oracle.as.install.bi.installaction.BIInstallAction._installNodeManagerService(BIInstallAction.java:459)
at oracle.as.install.bi.installaction.BIInstallAction.executeAfterCopy(BIInstallAction.java:216)
at oracle.as.install.engine.modules.util.installaction.InstallActionProviderUtility.invokeExecuteAfterCopy(InstallActionProviderUtility.java:91)
at oracle.as.install.engine.modules.presentation.ui.common.wizard.ModifiedDWizard.executeEvent(ModifiedDWizard.java:2907)
at oracle.as.install.engine.modules.presentation.PresentationModule.processModuleEvent(PresentationModule.java:655)
at oracle.as.install.engine.modules.util.PartnerModuleImpl.processEvent(PartnerModuleImpl.java:118)
at oracle.as.install.engine.InstallEngine.notifyListeners(InstallEngine.java:626)
at oracle.as.install.engine.InstallEngine.processEvent(InstallEngine.java:584)
at oracle.as.install.engine.modules.util.PartnerModuleImpl.notifyAllEventListenersHelper(PartnerModuleImpl.java:227)
at oracle.as.install.engine.modules.util.PartnerModuleImpl.notifyListeners(PartnerModuleImpl.java:158)
at oracle.as.install.engine.modules.install.InstallModule.onSuccess(InstallModule.java:478)
at oracle.as.install.engine.modules.install.action.InstallManager.notifySuccess(InstallManager.java:321)
at oracle.as.install.engine.modules.install.command.InstallSuccessCommand.execute(InstallSuccessCommand.java:42)
at oracle.as.install.engine.modules.install.action.InstallManager.onInstallEvent(InstallManager.java:333)
at oracle.as.install.engine.modules.install.action.AbstractOUIHandler.fireInstallEvent(AbstractOUIHandler.java:145)
at oracle.as.install.engine.modules.install.action.OUIInstaller.succeed(OUIInstaller.java:524)
at oracle.as.install.engine.modules.install.action.OUIInstaller.start(OUIInstaller.java:469)
at oracle.as.install.engine.modules.install.action.InstallManager.launchOUI(InstallManager.java:211)
at oracle.as.install.engine.modules.install.InstallModule.launchOUI(InstallModule.java:155)
at oracle.as.install.engine.modules.install.InstallModule$1.run(InstallModule.java:246)
October 8th, 2010 at 6:46 am
Hi Team,
While installing OBIEE11g with database 11g the installation getting successful at 98% and Post installation steps are executing and getting hanged.
after verifing the log the below message came across.
pls. suggest how to resolve this error.
[2010-10-06T17:18:13.558+05:30] [as] [NOTIFICATION] [] [oracle.as.install.bi] [tid: 15] [ecid: 0000Ii1FPUX1ZbS_UDk3yc1Cf5UQ000006,0] Validating node manager service arguments…
[2010-10-06T17:18:13.558+05:30] [as] [ERROR] [] [oracle.as.install.bi] [tid: 15] [ecid: 0000Ii1FPUX1ZbS_UDk3yc1Cf5UQ000006,0] Invalid weblogic home specified: D:\OBIEE11g\wlserver_10.3
[2010-10-06T17:18:13.558+05:30] [as] [ERROR] [] [oracle.as.install.engine.modules.install] [tid: 15] [ecid: 0000Ii1FPUX1ZbS_UDk3yc1Cf5UQ000006,0] Error occurred during OUI launch[[
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Invalid weblogic home specified: D:\OBIEE11g\wlserver_10.3
at oracle.as.install.bi.installaction.NodeManagerService._validate(NodeManagerService.java:64)
at oracle.as.install.bi.installaction.NodeManagerService.install(NodeManagerService.java:32)
at oracle.as.install.bi.installaction.BIInstallAction._installNodeManagerService(BIInstallAction.java:459)
at oracle.as.install.bi.installaction.BIInstallAction.executeAfterCopy(BIInstallAction.java:216)
at oracle.as.install.engine.modules.util.installaction.InstallActionProviderUtility.invokeExecuteAfterCopy(InstallActionProviderUtility.java:91)
at oracle.as.install.engine.modules.presentation.ui.common.wizard.ModifiedDWizard.executeEvent(ModifiedDWizard.java:2907)
at oracle.as.install.engine.modules.presentation.PresentationModule.processModuleEvent(PresentationModule.java:655)
at oracle.as.install.engine.modules.util.PartnerModuleImpl.processEvent(PartnerModuleImpl.java:118)
at oracle.as.install.engine.InstallEngine.notifyListeners(InstallEngine.java:626)
at oracle.as.install.engine.InstallEngine.processEvent(InstallEngine.java:584)
at oracle.as.install.engine.modules.util.PartnerModuleImpl.notifyAllEventListenersHelper(PartnerModuleImpl.java:227)
at oracle.as.install.engine.modules.util.PartnerModuleImpl.notifyListeners(PartnerModuleImpl.java:158)
at oracle.as.install.engine.modules.install.InstallModule.onSuccess(InstallModule.java:478)
at oracle.as.install.engine.modules.install.action.InstallManager.notifySuccess(InstallManager.java:321)
at oracle.as.install.engine.modules.install.command.InstallSuccessCommand.execute(InstallSuccessCommand.java:42)
at oracle.as.install.engine.modules.install.action.InstallManager.onInstallEvent(InstallManager.java:333)
at oracle.as.install.engine.modules.install.action.AbstractOUIHandler.fireInstallEvent(AbstractOUIHandler.java:145)
at oracle.as.install.engine.modules.install.action.OUIInstaller.succeed(OUIInstaller.java:524)
at oracle.as.install.engine.modules.install.action.OUIInstaller.start(OUIInstaller.java:469)
at oracle.as.install.engine.modules.install.action.InstallManager.launchOUI(InstallManager.java:211)
at oracle.as.install.engine.modules.install.InstallModule.launchOUI(InstallModule.java:155)
at oracle.as.install.engine.modules.install.InstallModule$1.run(InstallModule.java:246)
October 8th, 2010 at 7:02 am
Everyone,
Just to manage expectations here : we’re not able to help diagnose and fix installation issues in your environments, partly because we are all 100% busy on client engagements and also, because we’d really need access to your environments and a bit more background info to be able to do this.
Your best approach would be to raise an SR with Oracle support, after first having checked through the install docs and the supported platforms docs to make sure (a) you have done things like install the loopback adapter and set a static IP address, (b) you have enough memory (ideally 4GB+) on your machines and (c) followed the install instructions.
Sorry to have to say this, but I don’t want anyone else wasting their time posting stack traces etc on here – it isn’t the right place and Oracle support are better placed to help you.
regards, Mark
January 23rd, 2011 at 6:57 pm
I’ve installed OBIEE+11.1.1.3.0 on EL5U5 x86_64 on a machine, all went well but during the install one fourth from the bottom task failed:
opmnctl start coreapplication_obips1. Went further and it seamed to be ok, logged into /em with weblogic user and pwd, but connecting to /analytics it gives the error:
“Unable to Sign In
An error occurred during authentication. Try again later or contact your system administrator.”
Same happened with Simple install and Enterprise install. Some comments out on the net speak about loopback devices on Windows but I don’t know what can be the problem on a 64 bit Enterprise Linux. Any thoughts?
February 16th, 2011 at 7:17 pm
I’m having the same issue with the install on RHEL 5.x x64. opmnctl start coreapplication_obips1 – authentication error Lazzlo did you get past this error and what did you have to do?
March 4th, 2011 at 2:23 pm
After abandoning the click-click installation and installing separately weblogic, web tier, then BI software only then configuring the entire stuff together it works fine. Now we try to deploy an rpd and it gives back the same error. Checking for bugs or solutions…
March 30th, 2011 at 6:09 am
I just installed 11.1.1.3 and noticed that the Oracle Process Manager (instance 1) is still Manual Start. It seems that having to fire off the Start BI Service manually from a command window on the server console would not work well in a production environment. Can the OPM just be set to Automatic?
March 30th, 2011 at 8:57 am
You can set the Oracle Process Manager services to automatically start, if it’s not set this way already. But the Start BI Service shortcut entry is separate to this; it needs the Oracle Process Manager (and the Node Manager) service to be running before it will work, but this is a separate process that runs an Ant script to start the Admin Server, Managed Server and then call OPMN to start the system components.
April 11th, 2011 at 5:32 pm
Hi David Swathy,
Please do remember to install weblogic version 10.3.3.0 with software only install of obiee, if you install version 10.4 then your installation will fail.
Regards,
Rahul
May 9th, 2011 at 10:59 pm
To VSR
I’ve got the same error as yours.
”
While installing OBIEE11g with database 11g the installation getting successful at 98% and Post installation steps are executing and getting hanged. …. ”
However, after I deinstalled obiee11g and change the regional setting to be English (US) and Location as United Stated. And installed again. It can pass 98%.
Thanasit V.
January 17th, 2012 at 4:18 pm
Hi there,
OBIEE 11g — unable to view charts
Error –Graphing engine not responding
PLease advise
Thanks
January 18th, 2012 at 5:31 am
Hi,
My pc configuration : Microsoft windows XP Professional,SP3,Intel Pentium 4 CPU 3.2 GHz, 4 GB RAM with 150 GB
I installed Oracle 11g r2,OBIEE 11G 11.1.1.5.0 (Simple Install) and installation completed successfully. I can able to login all the components except Obiee11g-em.
When I try to open the Enterprise Manager, the login page is coming up.
Logged in using the web logic admin user and password and after that the blank screen is coming up.
In the console the below error is coming up.
1). Warning: javax.enterprise.resource.webcontainer.jsf.application
BEA-000000>
2). I started Node manager then trying to start managed services
“bi_server1″- Managed service not listing under servers in console.
3). Please provide me steps to start/stop obiee services
Please suggest
Regards,
Kulkarni