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SampleApp v406 - Automatic startup of OBIEE

Last week Oracle released v406 of SampleApp [http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/bi-foundation/obiee-samples-167534.html] . SampleApp is a one-stop-shop for a demonstration of pretty much any conceivable thing that OBIEE is capable of, and then some more on top of it. It is a VirtualBox [https://www.virtualbox.org/

Technical

screen and OBIEE

With the recent delivery of the Rittman Mead Exalytics server [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2012/05/rittman-mead-take-delivery-of-our-exalytics-server/], I have been fortunate enough to be spending time setting it up, most of it at a Linux terminal window. One of the tools I come back to, again and again, is

Oracle BI Suite EE

Scripted OBI 11g Linux startup/shutdown

Update - this post is now obsolete A much neater way of automating the startup/shutdown of OBIEE on Linux is to use the script we have published on the Rittman Mead scripts repository on github [http://ritt.md/init.d]. You can see details of how to implement it