OBIEE 11g: Getting Started - Part I A few weeks ago I procured some nifty hardware. Slowly but surely I've begun to build out certain VMs. Currently, this one computer serves as 4:

* Host - Ubuntu 10.10
* Guest - Ubuntu 10.10 - running my wiki, subversion and other documentation type things.
* Guest - Windows XP - Work. This is a VM specific to my current client.
* Guest - Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.5 (Carthage) 64bit. This is my OBIEE 11g playground I'm trying to build out. I have installed the 11gR2 database. I have run the repository creation utility (rcu) that installs the metadata for WebLogic and finally I have installed and (mostly) configured OBIEE 11g.

I'm barely using 10 GB of my 24 available. I so happy.

Anyway, I've configured my database to automatically startup/shutdown when the VM is started/shutdown. I followed Dr. Hall's guide here. Now I'm in the process of getting WebLogic configured to do the same thing automagically. (I should never have shut it down once I got it running...)

Believe it or not, I'm reading the documentation. 11g is a drastic change from 10g, especially with the integration of WebLogic. It's a downright beast.

I still don't know the difference between the Administration Console and Enterprise Manager. But I'm hacking away, as usual.

Since I'm trying to automate this whole thing, I don't necessarily want to use either of those tools. I want to start up the server and have everything running. Here's where I'm at now:



How did I get there you ask?

I opened up a shell and then navigated to:

/obiee/user_projects/domains/bifoundation_domain/bin

In that directory you will find startWebLogic.sh

[oracle@obiee ~]$./startWebLogic.sh

You'll be prompted for a username and password; weblogic is the username and whatever you entered for the password upon installation.

From the Administration Console, I go to bifoundation_domain -> Environment -> Servers



Click on the Control tab, select bi_server1 and select Start:



Awesome. What's a freaking Node Manager?

Here's the text for easier reading:Great...I need to start something else?

Back to the docs.

That took me down a rabbit hole ending up at the wlst (web logic scripting tool and all the examples are in windows).

I looked around the file system for config or log directories to see if I could spot something. Somehow I ended up in:

/obiee/wlserver_10.3/server/bin

Makes sense right?

In there, 2 files: setWLSEnv.sh and startNodeManager.sh

Run setWLSENv.sh first and you get this:

[oracle@obiee bin]$ ./setWLSEnv.sh 
CLASSPATH=/obiee/patch_wls1033/profiles/default/sys_manifest_classpath/weblogic_patch.jar:
/obiee/jrockit_160_17_R28.0.0-679/lib/tools.jar:/obiee/wlserver_10.3/server/lib/weblogic_sp.jar:
/obiee/wlserver_10.3/server/lib/weblogic.jar:
/obiee/modules/features/weblogic.server.modules_10.3.3.0.jar:
/obiee/wlserver_10.3/server/lib/webservices.jar:
/obiee/modules/org.apache.ant_1.7.1/lib/ant-all.jar:
/obiee/modules/net.sf.antcontrib_1.1.0.0_1-0b2/lib/ant-contrib.jar:

PATH=/obiee/wlserver_10.3/server/bin:
/obiee/modules/org.apache.ant_1.7.1/bin:
/obiee/jrockit_160_17_R28.0.0-679/jre/bin:
/obiee/jrockit_160_17_R28.0.0-679/bin:
/usr/kerberos/bin:
/usr/local/bin:
/usr/bin:
/bin:
/usr/X11R6/bin:
/home/oracle/bin

Your environment has been set.

Now run startNodeManager.sh (too much output, you don't get to see it).

Finally, back to the Administration Console, select bi_server1 again and click on Start:



Much better message this time.

And now I wait...

A minute or 2 later:



Voila!

Or so I thought. I navigated to Answers and was greeted with the wonderful 500 - Internal Server Error



I'll worry about that one tomorrow. It's a start though.

Labels: 11g, howto, obiee, weblogic

  ¶ 12/09/2010 01:49:00 AM