OBIEE 11g

Agents

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Agents

Agents allow you to automate business processes through a scheduler

Deliver analyses to people via email or other devices
Check for events and do something based on them
Create alerts
Call a business process based on changes in your data

Deliver content through a wide range of devices

(email, dashboard, pager etc)

Were called iBots in OBIEE 10g

By default, Alerts will be displayed in M y Dashboard of the user.

Alerts

A notification delivered by an agent, delivering personalized and actionable

content

By default, appears on the My Dashboard page

Default location of alert messages, can be moved/replicated on other
pages

Message also appears in global header area, Alerts section of homepage

Can be sent to other devices (phone, email etc)

Components of an Agent

An agent is made up of several (optional/mandatory) components

The schedule that the agent runs to (can be set to immediate)
A optional condition (named/inline) to determine whether agent completes
An analysis that is to be distributed

Actions that can be automatically executed dependent on the condition

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Conditions

Conditions can be defined as part of an agent

Condition is checked before the rest of the agent executes

Can be defined either inline (as part of the agent) or named (stored in the
catalog)

Condition can be based on an analysis or KPI

Schedules

Agent can be scheduled to run now, or in the future

One-off execution, or to a timetable

Daily, Weekly, Monthly runs
Then re-run the agent for a specified time period during that day

Can run forever, or until a certain date

Can be temporarily disabled, and then re-enabled later.

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Hands-On

Login to Analytics with weblogic user.

Create an Analysis and save it.

Click on New -> Agent and create an agent.

From the General tab, leave the default values.

Leave the Condition tab as it is for now.

From the Schedule tab, select Frequency as Once and leave the other values as
default.

From the Delivery Content tab, Click on Browse and Select the Analysis to be
delivered and provide any name in the Subject.

From the Recipients tab, Select the users to receive the Alert.

Leave the Actions tab as it is for now.

Save the Agent.

Go to Home page and run the Agent.

See the Alerts on the top.

Open my Dashboard and Alert is automatically displayed in the Dashboard.

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