OOW2011 : OBIEE 11g Systems Management Best Practices

My last session of this year's Oracle Openworld 2011 in San Francisco was on systems management of OBIEE 11g. Compared to the 10g release of OBIEE, the 11g release is much more complex, is deployed in much more distributed-type environments, and has a bunch of new tools that you need to manage the system based around Enterprise Manager and WebLogic Server.

The slides for this session are available for download here : OBIEE 11g Systems Management Best Practices

The main idea for this presentation came from a blog post I wrote a few months ago, entitled "So How Does Enterprise Manager work, Within OBIEE 11g?". In that blog post, I wrote about how Enterprise Manager, under the covers, uses the Java JMX MBeans to perform systems management tasks such as adding new system components to the cluster, uploading new repositories, or changing caching settings to enable, or disable it. Within the session, therefore, I talked about how Enterprise Manager is used primarily to manage the various components within an Oracle BI Domain, and how you could write scripts, like the one below, to manage the repository upload process and commit the changes to the domain.

If you're interested in scripting like this, keep an eye out for the next edition of Oracle Magazine, which has an article by myself on this topic and details of the above script. For me now though, it's off to the DW Global Leaders' meeting, where I'm presenting a session with Stewart Bryson on Exadata and OBIEE, and what's now possible with the new Exalytics BI Machine.