OBIEE Performance - Why Metrics Matter (and…Announcing obi-metrics-agent v2!)
One of the first steps to improve OBIEE performance is to determine why it is slow. That may sound obvious—can’t fix it if you »
Forays into Kafka - Logstash transport / centralisation
The holy trinity of Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana (ELK) are a powerful trio of tools for data discovery and systems diagnostics. In a nutshell, they enable »
OBIEE Monitoring and Diagnostics with InfluxDB and Grafana
In this article I’m going to look at collecting time-series metrics into the InfluxDB database and visualising them in snazzy Grafana dashboards. The datasets I’ »
Using Groovy instead of WLST for OBIEE Systems Management
I remember some years back when Rittman Mead first received the OBIEE 11g beta and I tried installing it for the first time. It was a »
MDS XML versus MUDE Part 3: Configuring MDS XML with Git
In the previous installment of this series, I gave an overview of MUDE (multi-user development environment), and described it's strengths and weaknesses, hopefully presenting a fair »
Integrating Oracle WebCenter and Oracle BI EE Part 3 : Adding BI Content to Custom Portal Applications
In the previous two postings in this series I looked at Oracle's WebCenter Portal application at a high-level, and then explained how analyses and other BI »
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 »
Configuring OBI 11g to use port 80
Introduction By default, OBI 11g will listen for connections on port 7001 or port 9704 depending on your installation type. There are several reasons you may »
Changing your password in OBIEE 11G.
Since the release of OBIEE 11G, one of the questions asked relates to what most people consider a fairly basic bit of functionality: how can a »
Oracle BI EE 11.1.1.5 - New JDeveloper Extensions
As covered by Mark earlier, BI EE 11.1.1.5 has some significant new features and is a definite upgrade for customers using BI EE »