Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) Installation on Linux

Applies to all variations on Linux including the Virtualization environment (Oracle VM or VMWare)

Downloads, Linux, JDK Requirements:

1. Login to the linux OS as the unix user oracle.

2. Download the latest version of OBIEE (10.1.3.x) biee_linux_x86_redhat_101340_disk1.cpio from otn.oracle.com under Business Intelligence Applications.

3. Extract the contents using cpio -iduv < biee_linux_x86_redhat_101340_disk1.cpio

4. The above command will create a directory RH_Linux with all the required obiee software

5. The installer directory contains setup.sh and setup.jar. From here, one can run UnixChk.sh before running the installer (that is, before running setup.sh).

6. Ensure the java is installed by typing which java and also the version by typing java –version

7. If JDK is not installed, download the JRE/JDK environment jdk-1_5_0_17-linux-i586.bin from java.sun.com. (Always look for jdk-1_5_x_x-* ) to the place where java is installed (cd /usr/lib/java)

8. chmod +x jdk-1_5_0_17-linux-i586.bin

9. Execute the binary jdk-1_5_0_17-linux-i586.bin

10. chmod -R a+rwx on the new directory jdk-1_5_0_17 as root

11. Ensure X-windows is running on the Linux operating System

12. Create couple of directories obiee, obieedata under the folder where OBIEE to be installed (/u01/opt/oracle/product)

13. Go back to the extracted obiee folder RH_Linux/server/Oracle_Business_Intelligence

Installation Steps:

1. Run ./setup.sh from RH_Linux/server/Oracle_Business_Intelligence

2. This opens up the X-Window dialog screen for the OBIEE Installer.

3. After few steps (accept defaults) enter the following 2 directories for obiee and obieedata.

4.

OBIEE Linux Install Image1

OBIEE Linux Install Image1

5. Accept the defaults by clicking Next

6. Enter the jdk home path /usr/lib/java/jdk_1_5_0_17

7. Enter the password for oc4jadmin (oc4jadmin)

8. Choose English and accept the default server OBIEE components

9. This will install the OBIEE client/server components and sample OBIEE application samplesales repository/web catalogs under /u01/opt/oracle/product/[obiee|obieedata] respectively(It can take anywhere from 10-20 minutes installation time)


10. OBIEE Install Image2

OBIEE Install image3

12. Once complete, Edit the user.sh in /u01/opt/oracle/product/obiee/setup under linux settings

13. Uncomment the parameters under linux.

14. Ensure the ORACLE_HOME is set properly /u01/opt/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1

15. TNS_ADMIN, PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH are need to be uncommented from the script

16. Start the Oracle BI Presentation services by typing ./run-saw.sh start

17. Start the Oracle BI server services by typing ./run-sa.sh start

18. OC4J service is required to access the OBIEE over the web. During the installation the service is started by default.

19. OC4J It can be re-started by running /u01/opt/oracle/product/obiee/setup/oc4j –start. For the first time the oc4jadmin password need to be set..

20. OC4j can be stopped by running /u01/opt/oracle/product/obiee/setup/oc4j –stop –port 9704 –password oc4jadmin

21. Verify OBIEE installation by logging into the sample sales dashboard by logging onto http://<Linux Host Name>:9704/analytics/saw.dll?Dashboard with password (Administrator/Administrator)

8 Responses to “Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) Installation on Linux”

  1. justin.nugent Says:

    This is great!

  2. sohail Jafferi Says:

    good documents
    but please guide me ,which user perform this installatoin task
    root or oracle user
    if oracle user ,then what privialges should assign to oracle user

  3. Aakanksha Says:

    hi,thanks for the detailed description.i will work on installation according to it,and revert.

  4. Sankar Bala Says:

    Hello Jafferi:

    You need to use oracle user for the installation. If there is a oracle database already in your installation the oracle user has the right privelege required for OBIEE installation.

    There are no additional privileges required for the user oracle

  5. Sohail Ahmed Jafferi Says:

    Hello Sankar Bala
    thx for ur suggestion
    i have compelted Basic installation of OBI
    but now i want to do Advance instalaltoin of OBI which is our main task , if u have knowledge abt Advance OBI Installatoin steps then send me steps
    ur assist wil be highly apreciatable
    thx a lot

    sohail jafferi

  6. Sohail Jaffefi Says:

    hi 2 all
    can anyone send me doc for ADVANCE installtion of OBI, pre-req and steps to complete that installation

    thx a lot

  7. Mani.R Says:

    Hi,

    Its simply excellent…thanks for documenting and sharing this kind of stuff…

    Regards
    Mani.R

  8. Kiranmayee Says:

    Hi,

    I recently performed the Oracle BI EE 10.1.3.4 install on RHEL 5. In my setup I have oracle BI EE and Oracle database on two different servers.

    Server1 – JDK(install directory: /export/home/jdk1.6.0_20, Oracle Client(Install directory /u00/app/oracle), Oracle BI EE (Install directory /export/home/BI)
    Server2 – Oracle Database.

    I have installed JDK, Oracle BI EE using user “user1″ and Oracle Client using user “user2″. Install did not complete till I moved the Oracle BI installer to the /u00/app/oracle/product directory.

    Should JDK, Oracle Client and Oracle BI EE be installed using same user account?

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