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Overview of OBIEE 11gR1

Key Features
Basic Architecture
System and Java Components
Oracle Process Manager and Notification Server
Oracle Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control
Weblogic Domain
Oracle instances
11g vs 10g
Q&A

Derived from Siebel Analytics, second major Oracle

release.
11gR1 new features focused on manageability and
Middleware integration.

 Oracle Business Intelligence is now more integrated with the Oracle Fusion
Middleware
Oracle WebLogic Server replaces Oracle Application Server and Oracle
Containers for Java (OC4J)
Oracle Business Intelligence 11g Installer replaces the installer that was used in
previous versions

 Following administration command-line utilities available

Oracle WebLogic Server scripting tool (WLST) for managing the Oracle
WebLogic Server domain
OPMN and the opmnctl commands for the Oracle Process Manager and
Notification Server
A database repository must be created before installation of the components
with the Repository Creation Utility (RCU) tool
Enhancements to the Oracle BI repository
Log centralization via the web log viewer

OBIEE is now deployed in a clustered configuration by default. Because of this,

the default ODBC DSN for the Oracle BI Server points to the Cluster Controller by
default, rather than to the Oracle BI Server.

 OBIEE

Components divided into System and Java

Components.
System components are still C/C++ executable and
are controlled by OPMN and managed by Fusion
Middleware Control
Java Components are J2EE applications and are
usually installed in the managed server and
controlled by Fusion Middleware Control.

OPMN (Oracle Process Manager and Notification Server )

You may have first come across this in Oracle Application
Server 10g, where it was used to start up the various
Application Server components (OC4J_BI_Forms,
OC4J_Portal etc).
Its since been adopted across the technology stack to
start, stop and monitor processes across distributed
servers, and its used in OBIEE 11g to do the same for the
system components (BI Server, BI Presentation Server, BI
Scheduler and BI Cluster Controller).
You can either access OPMN through the command line
(opmnctl), or Oracles recommended approach is to use
a graphical interface within Fusion Middleware Control.
OPMN is also used in the 11g stack to control Essbase,
Discoverer and other BI components, so its a tool thats
worth learning

 Manage

System Components (BI Server, BI

Presentation Server etc)
Start, Stop and Restart all System Components and
Managed Servers
Configure Preferences and Defaults
Scale out System Components
Performance Monitoring and Diagnostics

Each OBIEE 11g Oracle BI Domain contains a single Weblogic

Domain.
Contains one Admin Server and at the Start, One Managed Server
WebLogic Domain administered through Admin Console and
WLST(WebLogic Scripting).
Managed Servers can be started manually or through Node Manager.

 Collection

of system
components on a single
host.
Managed using OPMN.
Starts with one of each
system component.
An Oracle BI Domain
can contain multiple
instances, one per host.

OBIEE11g has had a major architectural overhaul adopting Fusion

Middleware 11g technologies

Core servers stay the same, but new middleware wrapper. Main
difference is wrapping components in WLS platform and EM management

Uses WebLogic Application Server for J2EE application hosting, security and
integration

Major security enhancements and changes

Enterprise Manager used for systems management

Individual servers, components are still the same (BI Server, Presentation
Server,BI Publisher J2EE application etc)

Some reworking has taken place in 11gR1 (unified logging, management of

config files using EM etc)

Basic concepts, plus clustering (OBIEE), scheduling etc are the same as in
10g

OBIEE 11g still works in fundamentally the same way as OBIEE 10g.

Users queries via the

Presentation Server
The Oracle BI Server
converts these queries to
physical SQL/MDX, via the
Oracle BI Repository
Queries are passed to the
underlying physical
databases and OLAP cubes
Data returned to users in
the form of dashboards and
reports

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