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OBIEE 11.1.1.6 LINUX

REDHAT 6 INSTALLATION
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Part one (installation only)

Authors: co founders of DELIVER BI

Shahed Munir (Technical Director)

Krishna Mohan (Projects Director)
April 2012

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X86

64BIT

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Table of Contents
Hardware Requirements ........................................................................................................................................................ 3
Download of Installation Files ............................................................................................................................................... 3
Pre Requisites ......................................................................................................................................................................... 3
Creation of the Middleware Home directory........................................................................................................................ 4
Libraries for Linux Redhat ...................................................................................................................................................... 4
Ulimits ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 4
Click cancel and start again by setting the U LIMIT. ......................................................................................................... 5
Creating an RCU on Database ............................................................................................................................................. 6
OBIEE 11.1.1.6 Installation ................................................................................................................................................. 11
Unzip the installation files on the Linux box .................................................................................................................. 11
Start the Installation process ........................................................................................................................................... 11
Specify Inventory Directory .............................................................................................................................................. 13
Installer Starts Main GUI for Installation. ....................................................................................................................... 14
Step 1 : Installer release Notes etc ................................................................................................................................ 14
Step 2 : Software Updates ............................................................................................................................................... 15
Step 3: Installation Type : Enterprise Installation ......................................................................................................... 15
Step 4: The Prequisite checks start here....................................................................................................................... 16
Step 5 : Weblogic User and Scale Out .......................................................................................................................... 16
Step 6: Specify Installation Location .............................................................................................................................. 17
Step 7: Select Components to Install ............................................................................................................................. 17
Step 8/9: Fill in Database Details related to RCU Created ......................................................................................... 18
Step 10: Auto Port Configuration .................................................................................................................................... 19
Step 11: Oracle Security Updates .................................................................................................................................. 19
Step 12: Generate a Response File (Silent Install File) & Summary ........................................................................ 20
Step 13: Installation Has Started Copying Of Files ...................................................................................................... 21
Step 14: Installation Has Started Configuring OBIEE.................................................................................................. 21
Step 15: Installation Result Summary Screen .............................................................................................................. 23
Browser Path Just Ignore it .......................................................................................................................................... 23
Linux Bash Profile Example................................................................................................................................................. 24

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Hardware Requirements

Hardisk required around 40gb (Including installation files etc)

Ram = 4gb minimum
Download of Installation Files
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/bi-enterprise-edition/downloads/bi-downloads-1525270.html
- for Linux x86-64-bit:
Disk 1 (1of2) (1.4G) (cksum 2909839713)
Disk 1 (2of2) (1.5G) (cksum 1499178505)

Disk 2 (1of2) (1.7G) (cksum 1921434953)

Disk 2 (2of2) (1.5G) (cksum 397265218)
Disk 3 (1.6G) (cksum 320598023)

Libraries for this installation are available from here if any are missing
http://linux1.fnal.gov/linux/scientific/5x/x86_64/SL/
Xming installation has already been completed the instructions can be found on a separate
Document.
Xming is used to render the graphical interface from the Linux Server that you will be
installing OBIEE on.

Pre Requisites

On Linux, running Oracle Business Intelligence 11.1.1.6 Installer as the root user is not
supported.
Make sure there is a user available with the oinstall group and dba group memberships
assigned
Create MiddlewareHome Directory in a location where there is sufficient space available
Use the command df h to check space available to you for the install and space for the
installation files.

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When you have found the directory where you would like to install then create a middleware
home

Creation of the Middleware Home directory

mkdir -p /MiddlewareHome
chown -R obi:oinstall /MiddlewareHome
chmod -R 775 /MiddlewareHome
When installation starts it will run a pre-req check on the system to make sure all libraries
needed for the install are available. You can either use YUM or the above link in the document
to download the required libraries identified during the pre-req check.

Libraries for Linux Redhat

If Libraries need to be installed cancel the install Download and install the libraries using the
commands below :
To Install: rpm -ilv <package name>

To Remove:

rpm -e <package name

Ulimits

Set the Ulimit Parameters (Soft and Hard Limits)

set the /etc/security/limits.conf file
oracle
oracle

soft nofile 4096

hard nofile 65536

If you have set the Ulimits in the conf file above then the Linux instance will need a bounce for
the settings to be set on boot up.

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Temporarily to run install you can execute the below command as installation user
ulimit -n 4096

To see if you have set the ulimit correctly the command to use is : ulimit a
ulimit a |grep open
ulimit -a|grep open

If you dont set the Ulimit parameter you will get a fail on the OBIEE installation pre req
checks like below

Click cancel and start again by setting the U LIMIT.

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Creating an RCU on Database

As we are running OBIEE on Linux 64 Bit platform we have to create the RCU from a
Windows Machine. We are using windows 7 for this. This utility can be run any time prior to
the OBIEE installation and the Database user must have sysdba privilege on the required
Database. Database version we are using is 11G
ofm_rcu_win_11.1.1.6.0_disk1_1of1\rcuHome\BIN
Start the rcu.bat

Create and click Next

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Fill in the relevant details. These can be found in the TNS Entry for the database that you
want to install the RCU on.
Click Next

Click Ok

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Click Oracle Business Intelligence and click next. Make a Note of the Prefix.

Enter password. Make a Note of It Click Next

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Make a note of your schema Owners and click Next

Click OK

Click OK and then click next on the screen

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Make sure summary is ok and you have taken down all notes and click create.
This will take a few minutes as its creating the schemas in the database.

You will get a completion Summary. Click Close. Thats it your ready if you login to your
database you will see 2 schemas with their objects have been created ready to support
OBIEE main installation.

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OBIEE 11.1.1.6 Installation

Unzip the installation files on the Linux box

When you issue the first unzip command it will create a bishiphome directory and with in
create sub directories for the disks
If you do not have enough disk space on the Linux box you can keep deleting the installation
zip files after you unzip them
Below are the commands for unzipping the installation files

unzip bi_linux_x86_111160_64_disk1_1of2.zip
unzip bi_linux_x86_111160_64_disk1_2of2.zip
unzip bi_linux_x86_111160_64_disk2_1of2.zip
unzip bi_linux_x86_111160_64_disk2_2of2.zip
unzip bi_linux_x86_111160_64_disk3.zip

Start the Installation process

Please refer to the xming document on how to start the service on the linux box for the GUI to
render on your windows computer. You can do silent installation but you will still need to
render the GUI so you can get a one off silent install script.
Start the xhost command on ther server

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export DISPLAY=142.89.12.453:0.0

(youripaddress:0:0)

/usr/X11R6/bin/xhost
Navigate to the following directory on the server
/bishiphome/Disk1/install/linux64
Initiate the installation by giving the following command on the server
./runInstaller
If the xhost is set up correctly then you should see the installation window popping up on your
windows machine as below

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Specify Inventory Directory

Click Ok

Tick Continue and OK

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Installer Starts Main GUI for Installation.

Step 1 : Installer release Notes etc

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Click Next
Step 2 : Software Updates

Skip Software Updates and Click Next

Step 3: Installation Type : Enterprise Installation

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Click Enterprise Install and Click Next
Step 4: The Prequisite checks start here

If any pre req checks fail ( Then cancel correct them and restart the installer) . If all ok then
click Next.
Step 5 : Weblogic User and Scale Out

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Fill in Weblogic Passwords and Click Next
Step 6: Specify Installation Location

Point to Middleware Directory Created earlier on install guide. And Click Next
Step 7: Select Components to Install

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Click Next
Step 8/9: Fill in Database Details related to RCU Created

The same for MDS and & BIPLATFORM schemas created in RCU Process.
Fill in Database Type : Oracle Database
Connect String : Description as above
BIPLATFORM : Schema as created when creating RCU and password used and click Next
Click Next for MDS Schema as defaults.

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Step 10: Auto Port Configuration

Click Next
Step 11: Oracle Security Updates

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Untick support box as above and click next

Click Yes
Step 12: Generate a Response File (Silent Install File) & Summary

Here you can generate a response file (Silent Install File) Click save and save to a location for
another installation if needed.
Click Install

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Step 13: Installation Has Started Copying Of Files

Install stage of copying files has started, post install scripts and one off patches etc.
Once at 100% the copying is complete.
Step 14: Installation Has Started Configuring OBIEE

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This is where the Installer is Configuring OBIEE 11.1.1.6 and weblogic and Fusion
Middleware etc.

Make sure everything is Success, Everything will be working as expected.

Click Next

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Step 15: Installation Result Summary Screen

Save the Completion Summary to the box and copy all the URLs Needed etc to launch
OBIEE.
Thats it for the installation . Run the EM make sure everything is ok. If not go into Weblogic
and start any other deployments needed.
Click Finish
Browser Path Just Ignore it

Ignore this .. Just click Cancel

If Xming window is stuck after cancel then thats fine. Just close it.
Test your URLs from your completion summary and everything is up and running. Next is the
customization and security aspect.

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Linux Bash Profile Example

# .bash_profile
# File Descriptor Limit
ulimit -n 10240
# Get the aliases and functions
if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
. ~/.bashrc
fi
# User specific environment and startup programs
PATH=$PATH:/oracle/data
NLS_LANG=AMERICAN_AMERICA.UTF8
export NLS_LANG
export TNS_ADMIN=/u01/MiddlewareHome/Oracle_BI1/network/admin
export JAVA_HOME=/u01/MiddlewareHome/Oracle_BI1/jdk/bin
export MW_HOME=/u01/MiddlewareHome
export DOMAIN_HOME=$MW_HOME/user_projects/domains/bifoundation_domain
export WL_HOME=$MW_HOME/wlserver_10.3
export ORACLE_HOME=/u01/MiddlewareHome/Oracle_BI1
PATH=$PATH:/u01/MiddlewareHomes
PATH=$PATH:/u01/MiddlewareHome/Oracle_BI1/jdk/bin
PATH=$PATH:/u01/MiddlewareHome/Oracle_BI1/OPatch
export PATH

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