Rittman Mead Blog

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 don’t know what you’re fixing, right? Unfortunately, the “Drunk Man anti-method”, in which we merrily stumble from one change to another, maybe

Big Data

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 you to easily search through your log files, slice & dice them visually, drill into problem timeframes, and generally be the boss of knowing

Technical

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’m going to use are OS metrics (CPU, Disk, etc) and the DMS metrics from OBIEE, both of which are collected using the support

Oracle BI Suite EE

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 nightmare. If you think the 11.1.1.3 release was challenging, you should have tried working with any one of the betas. It

Oracle BI Suite EE

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 assessment on both sides. For a recap, here are three properties that I think any metadata layer development (and really... any development period) should

Technical

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 content from OBIEE 11g could be added to WebCenter Portal : Spaces applications. In most cases, if you're predominantly a BI developer this is as

Technical

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 (both VMWare Fusion and VirtualBox, since you ask). Being on-site at clients I'll often find my laptop's network details change, and because I'm using

Business Insights

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 want to change this, and one of them would be to make it use port 80, the default http port. If you use port

Oracle BI Suite EE

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 user change his/her own password ? The simple answer is that, out of the box, this is not (yet) supported in the 11G release,

Oracle BI Suite EE

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 11.1.1.3(even for 10g customers). I know the release is only a week old, hence calling it a definite upgrade requires

Oracle BI Suite EE

Oracle BI EE 11g and Oracle ADF - Part 2 - Real Time reporting using View Objects

In the last part i showed how BI EE 11g and Oracle ADF are integrated through the same Security Framework. In this part, we shall look into another reporting innovation (by use of the common ADF Framework) i.e. real time reporting using BI EE by directly reversing metadata from

Technical

Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g - BI ADF Components - First impressions

One of the few things that i have been working on this week is in understanding how the recently released Fusion Middleware 11g will influence Oracle BI EE in the near future. As was demonstrated & presented in the last Open World by Oracle, the strategic direction of Oracle is