Showing posts with label OBIEE Issues. Show all posts
Showing posts with label OBIEE Issues. Show all posts

Wednesday, 3 August 2016

Starting and Stopping OBIEE Services from Putty


To make sure no other process is running kill nodemanager and obiee processes
ps -ef |grep Node|grep nodemanager |cut -c10-15
ps -ef |grep obiee
Kill the above processes ( kill <PID>)

Stopping Weblogic

Go to
<OBIEE Home>/user_projects/domains/bifoundation_domain/bin/
Then run -> ./stopWebLogic.sh

Starting Weblogic
---------------
nohup sh
<OBIEE Home>/user_projects/domains/bifoundation_domain/bin/startWebLogic.sh -Dweblogic.management.username=weblogic -Dweblogic.management.password=weblogic234 > wls_start.log &
Note: Change password of your application. Nohup is the command to run the process in the linux and give the control back to putty.

Starting NodeManager
------------------
nohup sh  <OBIEE Home>/wlserver_10.3/server/bin/startNodeManager.sh > startNodeManager.log &

Starting EM
------------

nohup sh <OBIEE Home>/user_projects/domains/bifoundation_domain/bin/startManagedWebLogic.sh bi_server1
Note: bi_server1 is the server name. make sure your server name given properly

Starting OPMN
----------
cd <OBIEE HOME>/instances/instance1/bin/

./opmnctl startall


./opmnctl status   -- To Check the Status

OBIEE - Session Variables are not updated problem

OBIEE - Session Variables are not updated problem

When you are using Session Variables, with Row-wise initialization.

In case you have a problem with those session variables not being updated, unless you restart the BI server...

Please make sure that the "use caching" option is turned off. Otherwise the Session Variables are not refreshed each time you log in.

(The use caching is very useful in many other cases).

Tuesday, 26 July 2016

How to Increase no of rows in excel output in OBIEE

To use Fusion Middleware Control to set configuration options for views:

Go to the Business Intelligence Overview page, as described in Section 2.2.3, "Using Fusion Middleware Control to Manage Oracle Business Intelligence System Components."

Display the Performance tab of the Capacity Management page.

Click Lock and Edit Configuration to enable changes to be made.

Complete the elements using the descriptions in the help topic for the page. Click the Help button on the page to access the page-level help for the following options:

Maximum Number of Rows to Download option
Maximum Number of Rows Per Page to Include option
Click Apply, then click Activate Changes.

Return to the Business Intelligence Overview page and click Restart.


Method 2:

To manually edit the settings that change the display of data in views:

Open the instanceconfig.xml file for editing, as described in Section 3.6, "Where Are Configuration Files Located?"

Locate the Table, Pivot, Trellis, Charts, Narrative, Ticker, and Treemap parent sections, in which you must add the elements that are described in Table 19-2.

Include the elements and their ancestor elements as appropriate, as shown in the following example:

<ServerInstance>
  <Views>
      <Table>
        <MaxCells>10000</MaxCells>
        <MaxPagesToRollOutInDelivery>1000</MaxPagesToRollOutInDelivery>
        <MaxVisiblePages>1000</MaxVisiblePages>
        <MaxVisibleRows>500</MaxVisibleRows>
        <MaxVisibleSections>25</MaxVisibleSections>
        <DefaultRowsDisplayed>30</DefaultRowsDisplayed>
        <DefaultRowsDisplayedInDelivery>250</DefaultRowsDisplayedInDelivery>
        <DefaultRowsDisplayedInDownload>65000</DefaultRowsDisplayedInDownload>
        <DefaultRowsDisplayedInDownloadCSV>65000</DefaultRowsDisplayedInDownloadCSV>
      </Table>
      <Pivot>
        <MaxPagesToRollOutInDelivery>1000</MaxPagesToRollOutInDelivery>
        <MaxVisibleColumns>300</MaxVisibleColumns>
        <MaxVisiblePages>1000</MaxVisiblePages>
        <MaxVisibleRows>500</MaxVisibleRows>
        <MaxVisibleSections>25</MaxVisibleSections>
        <DefaultRowsDisplayed>30</DefaultRowsDisplayed>
        <DefaultRowsDisplayedInDelivery>250</DefaultRowsDisplayedInDelivery>
        <DefaultRowsDisplayedInDownload>65000</DefaultRowsDisplayedInDownload>
        <DefaultRowsDisplayedInDownloadCSV>65000</DefaultRowsDisplayedInDownloadCSV>
      </Pivot>
      <Trellis>
        <Simple>
            <MaxCells>1000</MaxCells>
            <MaxVisibleSections>10</MaxVisibleSections>
            <MaxVisiblePages>1000</MaxVisiblePages>
            <MaxVisibleRows>100</MaxVisibleRows>
            <MaxVisibleColumns>75</MaxVisibleColumns>
            <MaxPagesToRollOutInDelivery>1000</MaxPagesToRollOutInDelivery>
            <DefaultRowsDisplayed>10</DefaultRowsDisplayed>
            <DefaultRowsDisplayedInDelivery>100</DefaultRowsDisplayedInDelivery>
            <DefaultRowsDisplayedInDownload>6500</DefaultRowsDisplayedInDownload>
        </Simple>
        <Advanced>
            <MaxCells>5000</MaxCells>
            <MaxVisibleSections>50</MaxVisibleSections>
            <MaxVisiblePages>1000</MaxVisiblePages>
            <MaxVisibleRows>250</MaxVisibleRows>
            <MaxVisibleColumns>150</MaxVisibleColumns>
            <MaxPagesToRollOutInDelivery>1000</MaxPagesToRollOutInDelivery>
            <DefaultRowsDisplayed>25</DefaultRowsDisplayed>
            <DefaultRowsDisplayedInDelivery>250</DefaultRowsDisplayedInDelivery>
            <DefaultRowsDisplayedInDownload>10000</DefaultRowsDisplayedInDownload>
        </Advanced>
      </Trellis>
      <Charts>
        <MaxVisibleColumns>2000</MaxVisibleColumns>
        <MaxVisiblePages>1000</MaxVisiblePages>
        <MaxVisibleRows>2000</MaxVisibleRows>
        <MaxVisibleSections>25</MaxVisibleSections>
        <JavaHostReadLimitInKB>4096</JavaHostReadLimitInKB>
      </Charts>
      <Narrative>
        <MaxRecords>40000</MaxRecords>
        <DefaultRowsDisplayed>30</DefaultRowsDisplayed>
      </Narrative>
      <Ticker>
        <MaxRecords>40000</MaxRecords>
      </Ticker>
      <Treemap>
        <MaxCells>5000</MaxCells>
        <MaxVisiblePages>10000</MaxVisiblePages>
        <MaxVisibleRows>10000</MaxVisibleRows>
        <MaxVisibleSections>50</MaxVisibleSections>
      </Treemap>
  </Views>
</ServerInstance>
Note that this example does not include elements that might exist in the file, but that are centrally managed by Fusion Middleware Control and cannot be changed manually.

Save your changes and close the file.

Restart Oracle Business Intelligence.

Merged Columns in excel output in OBIEE

1. Take a back up copy of <Middleware_Home>/instances/instance1/config/OracleBIJavaHostComponent/coreapplication_obijh1/xdo.cfg file.

2. Open xdo.cfg for editing.

3. Add the following:
(Setting "xlsx-keep-values-in-same-column" to true)

<config version="1.0.0" xmlns="http://xmlns.oracle.com/oxp/config/">
<properties>
<property name="xlsx-keep-values-in-same-column">true</property>
</properties>
</config>

4. Save your changes.

5. Restart all OBIEE components. Make sure you restart bi_server from weblogic as well.

For Cluster environment change the above file in both the instance and then restart

Saturday, 19 March 2016

connection failed while importing metadata in obiee 11g

There are many reasons you may get this error. One way to resolve the issue is to correct the shortcut which is placed on the desktop

Go to the Installed path of the Admin tool. 

In my case it is 

C:\Program Files\Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Plus Client Tools\oraclebi\orahome\bifoundation\server\bin\

Find Admintool.exe and create a shortcut by using right click and paste the below value

"C:\Program Files\Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Plus Client Tools\oraclebi\orahome\bifoundation\server\bin\bi_init.bat" coreapplication admintool.exe

Make sure that (“) didn’t miss.

Note: tnsnames.ora file should be kept in the repository folder from where you are opening the rpd. This file you can get it from Oracle database from the server under network folder.

Sunday, 13 March 2016

Unable to Login in to OBIEE 11g

  • Check whether all the services are up or not.
  • Most of the times cluster server will not be up due to which you may see this issue.
  • If you are using Windows Environment then try configuring loop back adapter.
  • If you are using Windows Environment in Laptop then make sure that before you start the servers wifi is switched of. This is mandatory step because host will be conflicted in case of wifi.
  • Check in the logs what are the errors it is throwing.
  • Most of the errors will be related to Networking such as Host, Wifi, Environment Variables, Improper shutdown.

If you see any errors in the log file kindly send to me. I will try to help you regarding this.

Unresolved Column in OBIEE 11g

Many of you might have notices this error during their Initial developments. This is one of the many common mistakes we might done during the import.


Odbc driver returned an error (SQLExecDirectW).

A general error has occurred. [nQSError: 27005] Unresolved column:

Primary check what you have to do is to check whether this column is present in your Database or not.



  • Open the RPD.
  • Right click on the column.
  • Select view data.
  • If you see that ODBC error here then it would not be present in the database.
  • Check the column name again in the database and correct it.