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Software Installation Step By Step : OBI EE 11.1.1.5.0 For Oracle Linux 5u3

Software Installation Step By Step : OBI EE 11.1.1.5.0 For Oracle Linux 5u3
OBI EE 11g has many advantages over its older 10g version. Specially if you are working on Linux platforms then the biggest advantage of this version is to have a 64 bit support rather than a 32 bit installers. This is really helpful if you have lots of memory in your server and due to 32 bit limitation you can not use them for your applications. In this document I will cover step by step installation of Oracle BI EE 11.1.1.5.0 on a 64 bit Linux server (in my case OEL). If you follow the guide lines of Oracle then you will find that in a 64 bit Linux OS only the Software only installation is supported. That means the installation is little different than the one we get with a Enterprise installation type. In this installation process you have to install Oracle Weblogic Server Software 10.3.5.0 onto your server with a 64 bit jdk (better use Oracle JRockit JDK). Once this is done you have to install the software. You can use XMing or other Xwindow servers to get a feed from your Linux environment to your local windows PC and complete the installtion or you can use a response file to start the installation. My this blog I will cover the installation with response file. 1. Minimum Hardware Requirement for 64 bit Linux machines Physical Memory (RAM) = 8 GB Swap Memory = 8 GB Temp Memory = 2 GB CPU Speed = 1.5 MHz Disk Space = 30 GB 2. Create Database Schemas : Oracle BI 11g comes with a schema builder utility commonly known as RCU - Repository Creation Utility. As you have noticed in Oracle BI 10g or in Siebel 7.8.X versions, the tool needs a set of database tables to store data for its scheduler and usage tracking components. In the older version you will have a set of .sql files that you have to execute on the database server to generate these tables. In the new version all these tasks are automated with RCU. Now you have to specify the details of the database and an account having SYS DBA access to the database. (In case you have a user only DBA access you have to give it grant execute on sys.dbms_lock with grant option, grant execute on sys.dbms_lob with grant option and grant execute on sys.dbms_output with grant option). Select BIPLATFORM and MDS schemas for installation. If you are running the rcu utility from linux environment then the typical command will look like - "./rcu -silent -createRepository -databaseType ORACLE -connectString IP:PORT:SID -dbUser [DB User Name] schemaPrefix POC -component MDS -tablespace [DATA Tablespace Name] -component BIPLATFORM -tablespace [DATA Tablespace Name] -f [Full path of the password file]" 3. Create Response File : In my case I first create the response file in my windows environment (no need to install the software just follow the steps and before the installation start save the response as response file). Then modify the response file as per your linux requirement. Now create a staticports.ini file that will be used for your installation. 4. Install Oracle Weblogic Server 10.3.5.0 Install Oracle Weblogic Server 10.3.5.0 on the machine and remember the path of the Oracle middleware home. This will be needed during the software installation of OBI EE 11g software. Domain creation is not needed. Domain will be created after the OBI EE software installation and this domain is now onwards called as BI Domain.
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Software Installation Step By Step : OBI EE 11.1.1.5.0 For Oracle Linux 5u3

5. Install OBI EE Software : Once you have reated the response file and the staticports.ini file the rest of the software installation is very easy in 11g. The installer supports both graphical and console mode. If you are using graphical mode using X-Window servers like xming, then you get same input pages as you will find in windows environment. But in case of a console based installation you have to invoke the silent installer using the following command "./runInstaller -silent -force -ignoreSysPrereqs -invPtrLoc /tmp/bishiphome/inst/oraInst.loc responsefile [full path of response file] -jreLoc [full path of jdk]" In case the installation stops with "Can't load library" error, you have to check that all the linux libraries needed for OBI EE 11.1.1.5.0 are installed on the server (use yum - list command). If they are missing, install them using yum install command and try the installation again. 6. Performance Related Changes in Linux : Once the installation is completed make sure to set these kernel parameters to enhance the performance of the OBI EE environment. You need root access to make these changes in the server. Set tcp_fin_timeout to 30 echo "30" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_fin_timeout Set tcp_max_syn_backlog to 4096 echo "4096" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_max_syn_backlog Set resource hard and soft limit to 65535 Add the folloing in the file /etc/security/limits.conf hard nofile 65535 soft nofile 65535 Posted 5th April 2012 by Somnath De Labels: Oracle BI Installation In Linux
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