AbdulWasiq: April 2015

Installation OBIEE 11.1.1.7.0 on Linux

Install Oracle database11gr2
Run "rcu" to create schemas in the database for OBIEE
Install JDK Minimum requirement is 1.6 .
Install OBIEE 11.1.1.7.0

Installing Oracle Database 11gr2

Download the oracle software form edelivery.oracle.com.
Once the download has been finished ,Please unzip the two files.
When you unzip the files you will get Database directory .
Go to Database directory and run the "runInstaller" which is shown below in the screen shot.

Make sure you meet all OS pre requisite's ,before you invoke the runInstaller.

If we have oracle support email id we could mention with this step or just deselect the option click 'Yes' with the warning screen and click 'Next' with the below step

Click on Yes .

If you select "Create and Configure Database" .
It will copy the oracle software , configure the database and configure the listener on free port or available port.

Select Server Class and Click on Next to proceed .

Type of installation
Click on Single instance and click on Next .

Select Advanced Installation .
if you didn't select Advance installation ,By default it take OLTP database and other character
set that is WMS18 something .
If you select wrong character set ,you rcu will fail for obiee .

Just Click Next

Select Enterprise Edition and Click on Next .

Provide ORACLE_BASE and ORACLE SOFTWARE location .

Most of the people will make mistake in selecting the type of database .
If you are installing database for OBIEE ,make sure that you select it Dataware housing .

Provide services name and GDB NAME.
It is best practice that you keep global database name and sid same .
after the installation i was facing some issue ,so i changed the global database name to
same as sid.

Set SGA .

Select the Character set .

Datafiles location ,if you want you can customize it ..

Provide password for sys and system user .

Click on finish .

Click on Next and proceed .

It is asking to you run below script with root user .

Click on Close button to finish with installation of oracle database 11gr2 !!! :)

Installation has been finished ..

Installing JDK 1745

I was having installed JDK on my other server ,just i did scp to my server .
In my next up coming post , i will show you step by step procedure to install OBIEE 11.1.1.7.0 on linux.

Please check this link ,how to install JDK on linux .

Thanks for visiting my blog .

Quote of the day !!!
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OBIEE RCU 11.1.17.0

Select "Create" button to create schema in the database .

Select type of the database,database port,service name,username ,password for sysdba .

Click on Next to proceed .

Click on OBIEE check box and rest of the schema's get selected automatically .

Provide password for below schema that is MDS and PLATFORM .

Creating tablespaces for the above schemas .

Click on create button !!!

Above is the summary page .
Click on Close button .

OBIEE rcu installation has been finished ....

When I am installing OBIEE 11.1.1.7.0 on Linux getting error as ORACLE_HOME variable is set .

You have already set the ORACLE_HOME that is for oracle database 11g and OBIEE expecting

OBIEE HOME location.

You could try below one .

unset ORACLE_HOME

./runInstaller

OBIEE 11.1.1.7.0 Step by Step Installation on Linux .

This post will guide us through the step by step installation of OBIEE 11.1.1.7.0. Here I don't find any difference in RCU installation between in previous version with this version.

Step1:

Download the OBIEE 11g software version from oracle e-delivery site and extract all the four disk.

Go to Disk1 and run the "runInstaller" which will invoke the GUI .

Universal Installer will start and will check for the initial set up and system requirement.

After the successful precheck the first step of our OBIEE 11.1.1.7.0 starts with the below window. Just Click 'Next'

If you have oracle Support username and password then update then use that in this step or just select first option 'Skip Software updates' and click 'Next'

Select the type of installation which you want to do it .

I am selecting "simple installation".

This step will just check operating system certification and physical memory. Just click 'Next' after the check passed through.

Provide the Middleware home directory path .

Please choose the name of the database.

Connecting string in this format hostname:portno:sid

Provide OBIDEV_PLATFORM SCHEMA password .

Please choose the name of the database.

Connecting string in this format hostname:portno:sid

Provide OBIDEV_MDS SCHEMA password .

If we have oracle support email id we could mention with this step or just deselect the option click 'Yes' with the warning screen and click 'Next' with the below step

Just click on yes and proceed !!.