Oracle Business Intelligence: Oracle Business Intelligence OBIEE 10g advanced installation with WebCenter Suite (Oracle Application Server)

Saturday, September 6, 2014

Oracle Business Intelligence OBIEE 10g advanced installation with WebCenter Suite (Oracle Application Server)

There are two types of installations for OBIEE 10g.

1- Basic Installation

2- Advance Installation

Here we are going to install OBIEE 10.1.3.4.1 with advance installation type on windows 2003 server enterprise edition with Intel Xeon 2.3 x 2 GHz with 4 GB RAM.

Following are the pre-requisites for advanced installation type.

1- Oracle Application Server 10.1.3.1.0 or later is required for Oracle Business Intelligence.

2- The following Oracle Application Server components are required for Oracle Business Intelligence:

a. Oracle HTTP Server

b. Oracle Containers for J2EE (OC4J)

c. Oracle Process Manager and Notification Server

NOTE: If you do not want to use Oracle HTTP Server after installing Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition, then disable Oracle HTTP Server in Oracle Application Server after the installation.

3- Windows Login User should be “Local Administrator” of the machine. (This is to avoid any unwanted interruption during installation)

Before proceeding with the OBIEE 10g advance installation, you have to install Oracle Application Server 10.1.3.1.0 or later. For the installation and configuration of Oracle Application Server, refer to the post here)

For OBIEE 10g installation, follow below steps ...

Download OBIEE 10.1.3.4.1 from here.

I have downloaded and unzipped into folder SW as shown below.

Open folder "Server" and execute setup file ...

Click Run ...

Click Next ...

Provide the desired installation path as shown below ...

Select "Complete" ...

Provide the application server location (Refer to the post here for Oracle WebCenter Suite (Oracle Application Server) installation ...

Note: You may encounter error "Please specify a valid Oracle Application Server 10g installation location" if your WebCenter Suite (Application Server) installation is incorrect.

To see more detail refer to:

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E10415_01/doc/bi.1013/e10404/general.htm

It states:

1.4.9.16 Installer Requires the OC4J Instance to Be Named "Home" and Enabled - Advanced Option

This issue applies to Versions 10.1.3.3, 10.1.3.3.1, 10.1.3.3.2, 10.1.3.3.3, 10.1.3.4, 10.1.3.4.1, and 10.1.3.4.2.

When installing Oracle BI Enterprise Edition using the Advanced installation type, you must install Oracle Application Server before running the Oracle BI Installer. By default, Oracle Application Server creates an OC4J container called "home." This container is the location where all the Oracle BI Applications are deployed. The Oracle BI Installer requires the OC4J container called "home" to be present and enabled.

If a container called "home" does not exist, then follow the instructions located in Oracle Application Server Administration Guide to re-create the container.

If the OC4J instance named "home" is disabled, then the Oracle BI Installer does not proceed. You must enable the OC4J "home" instance for Oracle BI Installer to proceed. The Oracle BI Installer checks the existence of OC4J "home" instance and if it is enabled. If it is not, the Installer displays the following error message: "Please specify a valid Oracle Application Server 10g installation location. A valid Oracle Application Server 10g installation must have the default OC4J instance named 'home' and that 'home' OC4J instance must be enabled."

Click Next ...

It will try to install .Net Framework 2.0. Since i have it already installed on my machine therefore it will throw error ... Nothing to worry just proceed ...