OBIEE

207 articles

2017

25 Jan 2017 Rittman Mead at BIWA Summit 2017
Apache Kafka

2016

15 Dec 2016 ETL Offload with Spark and Amazon EMR - Part 1 - Introduction
Apache Spark
14 Dec 2016 Source Control and Automated Code Deployment Options for OBIEE
OBIEE
12 Dec 2016 Enhanced Usage Tracking for OBIEE - Now Available as Open Source!
OBIEE
08 Dec 2016 The Rittman Mead Open Source Project
OBIEE
01 Nov 2016 Using SQL to Query JSON Files with Apache Drill
Apache Drill
19 Oct 2016 OBIEE, Big Data Discovery, and ODI security updates - October 2016
OBIEE
11 Oct 2016 OTN Appreciation Day : OBIEE’s BI Server
OBIEE
08 Oct 2016 POUG
OBIEE
03 Oct 2016 All You Ever Wanted to Know About OBIEE Performance…but were too afraid to ask
OBIEE
23 Aug 2016 How To Poke Around OBIEE on Linux with strace (Working with Unsupported ODBC Sources in OBIEE 12c)
Apache Drill
11 Aug 2016 Using Apache Drill with OBIEE 12c
Apache Drill
25 Jul 2016 An Introduction to Oracle Stream Analytics
Apache Kafka
14 Jul 2016 Using R with Jupyter Notebooks and Oracle Big Data Discovery
ksqlDB
01 Jun 2016 OBIEE 12c – Extended Subject Areas (XSA) and the Data Set Service
OBIEE
31 May 2016 Changes in BI Server Cache Behaviour in OBIEE 12c : OBIS_REFRESH_CACHE
OBIEE
28 May 2016 Lifting the Lid on OBIEE 12c Web Services - Part 2
OBIEE
27 May 2016 Dynamic Naming of OBIEE 12c Service Instance Exports
OBIEE
27 May 2016 OBIEE 12c - “Add Data Source” in Answers
OBIEE
24 May 2016 Lifting the Lid on OBIEE 12c Web Services - Part 1
OBIEE
20 May 2016 OBIEE 12c hangs at startup - Starting AdminServer …
OBIEE
19 May 2016 oracle.bi.bar.exceptions.UnSupportedBarException: The Bar file provided as input is not supported in this BI Platfrom release.
OBIEE
18 May 2016 OBIEE Baseline Validation Tool - Parameter ‘directory’ is not a directory
OBIEE
18 May 2016 Under the Covers of OBIEE 12c Configuration with sysdig
OBIEE
18 Apr 2016 OBIEE security patches, and FINAL 11.1.1.7 patchset release
OBIEE
30 Mar 2016 New OTN Article - OBIEE Performance Analytics: Analysing the Impact of Suboptimal Design
OBIEE
28 Mar 2016 Connecting to OBIEE via JDBC - with jisql
OBIEE
18 Mar 2016 OBIEE 11.1.1.9 installation - JPS-06514: Opening of file based keystore failed
OBIEE
26 Feb 2016 Visualising OBIEE DMS Metrics over the years
OBIEE
26 Feb 2016 OBIEE Performance - Why Metrics Matter (and…Announcing obi-metrics-agent v2!)
Monitoring
11 Feb 2016 OBIEE 12c - Repository Password Corruption Issue
OBIEE

2015

21 Dec 2015 Using Linux Control Groups to Constrain Process Memory
OBIEE
10 Dec 2015 Driving OBIEE User Engagement with Enhanced Usage Tracking for OBIEE
OBIEE
21 Oct 2015 Introducing the Rittman Mead OBIEE Performance Analytics Service
OBIEE
13 Oct 2015 Forays into Kafka - Logstash transport / centralisation
Apache Kafka
25 Sep 2015 Using the BI Server Metadata Web Service for Automated RPD Modifications
OBIEE
24 Sep 2015 Managing the OBIEE BI Server Cache from ODI 12c
OBIEE
23 Sep 2015 OBIEE BI Server Cache Management Strategies
OBIEE
15 Jul 2015 Security patches released for OBIEE 11.1.1.7/11.1.1.9, and ODI DQ 11.1.1.3
OBIEE
14 May 2015 What’s New in OBIEE 11.1.1.9 for Systems Administrators and Developers
OBIEE
24 Apr 2015 BI Forum 2015 Preview – OBIEE Regression Testing, and Data Discovery with the ELK stack
Elasticsearch
27 Mar 2015 Lifting the Lid on OBIEE Internals with Linux Diagnostics Tools
OBIEE
24 Mar 2015 OBIEE nqcmd Tidbits
OBIEE
23 Mar 2015 Instrumenting OBIEE Database Connections For Improved Performance Diagnostics
OBIEE
12 Mar 2015 An Introduction to Analysing ODI Runtime Data Through Elasticsearch and Kibana 4
Elasticsearch
08 Feb 2015 OBIEE Monitoring and Diagnostics with InfluxDB and Grafana
Elasticsearch
14 Jan 2015 Concurrent RPD Development in OBIEE
OBIEE

2014

09 Dec 2014 Linux cluster sysadmin – SSH keys
OBIEE
13 Nov 2014 OBIEE SampleApp v406 Amazon EC2 AMI - available for public use
OBIEE
10 Nov 2014 Auditing OBIEE Presentation Catalog Activity with Custom Log Filters
OBIEE
04 Nov 2014 Analytics with Kibana and Elasticsearch through Hadoop - part 3 - Visualising the data in Kibana
Elasticsearch
03 Nov 2014 Analytics with Kibana and Elasticsearch through Hadoop - part 1 - Introduction
Elasticsearch
21 Oct 2014 Monitoring OBIEE with Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana
Elasticsearch
08 Oct 2014 First-timer tips for Oracle Open World
OBIEE
10 Sep 2014 OBIEE SampleApp in The Cloud: Importing VirtualBox Machines to AWS EC2
Elasticsearch
17 Jun 2014 SampleApp v406 - Automatic startup of OBIEE
OBIEE
23 May 2014 Visual Regression Testing of OBIEE with PhantomCSS
OBIEE
14 May 2014 Mobile App Designer mis-configuration error
OBIEE
29 Apr 2014 Extended Visualisation of OBIEE Performance Data with Grafana
Monitoring
03 Apr 2014 BI Forum 2014 preview - No Silver Bullets : OBIEE Performance in the Real World
OBIEE
30 Mar 2014 Visualising OBIEE DMS metrics with Graphite
Monitoring
28 Mar 2014 Built-In OBIEE Load Testing with nqcmd
OBIEE
27 Mar 2014 Installing obi-metrics-agent, Graphite, and collectl
Monitoring
26 Mar 2014 Introducing obi-metrics-agent - an Open-Source OBIEE Metrics Collector
Monitoring
12 Feb 2014 Date formatting in OBIEE 11g - setting the default Locale for users
OBIEE
29 Jan 2014 Exploring OBIEE Web Services through Python
OBIEE
23 Jan 2014 Automated Regression Testing for OBIEE
OBIEE
17 Jan 2014 OBIEE Regression Testing - An Introduction
OBIEE

2013

20 Nov 2013 Make Use of OBIEE’s Command Line Tools with Reduced Exposure of Plain Text Passwords
OBIEE
08 Nov 2013 Monitoring OBIEE Performance for the End User with JMeter from EM12c
OBIEE
06 Nov 2013 Collecting Usage Tracking Data with Metric Extensions in EM12c
OBIEE
01 Nov 2013 Building alerts in EM12c with OBIEE Usage Tracking data
OBIEE
16 Oct 2013 OBIEE “Act As” (ActAs) vs “Impersonate”
OBIEE
03 Oct 2013 Tips and Tricks for the OBIEE linux sysadmin
OBIEE
23 Jul 2013 TimesTen and OBIEE port conflicts on Exalytics
OBIEE
15 Jul 2013 The Rittman Mead scripts github repository
OBIEE
08 Jul 2013 Learn OBIEE 11.1.1.7 from the experts!
OBIEE
04 Jul 2013 Patch OBIEE the quicker way - with OPatch napply
OBIEE
12 Jun 2013 Using OBIEE SampleApp 305 in VM Fusion
OBIEE
18 May 2013 Testing aggregate navigation on OBIEE and Exalytics
OBIEE
08 Apr 2013 Incremental refresh of Exalytics aggregates using native BI Server capabilities
OBIEE
03 Apr 2013 Upgrading OBIEE to 11.1.1.7
OBIEE
18 Mar 2013 Performance and OBIEE - part I - Introduction
OBIEE
18 Mar 2013 Performance and OBIEE - part II - Test - Define
OBIEE
18 Mar 2013 Performance and OBIEE - part III - Test - Design
OBIEE
18 Mar 2013 Performance and OBIEE - part IV - Test - Build
OBIEE
18 Mar 2013 Performance and OBIEE - part V - Execute and Measure
OBIEE
18 Mar 2013 Performance and OBIEE - part VI - Analysing results
OBIEE
18 Mar 2013 Performance and OBIEE - part VII - Optimising OBIEE performance (“Tuning”)
OBIEE
18 Mar 2013 Performance and OBIEE - Summary and FAQ
OBIEE
10 Jan 2013 Incremental refresh of Exalytics Aggregates using TimesTen
OBIEE

2012

29 Sep 2012 Alternatives to the Summary Advisor for Refreshing Exalytics Aggregates
Oracle GoldenGate
14 Sep 2012 Advanced monitoring of OBIEE with Nagios
Monitoring
13 Sep 2012 An introduction to monitoring OBIEE with Nagios
Monitoring
12 Sep 2012 Automated Monitoring of OBIEE in the Enterprise - an overview
Monitoring
15 Aug 2012 OBIEE / AD integration - [OBI-SEC-00022] Identity found … but could not be authenticated
OBIEE
07 Aug 2012 Advanced Presentation Services settings for OBIEE testing & development
OBIEE
06 Aug 2012 OBIEE / FMW and networking on DHCP hosts
OBIEE
23 Jul 2012 Exalytics - TimesTen and OBIEE connectivity
OBIEE
11 Jul 2012 OBIEE 11.1.1.6.2 BP1 - Logical SQL Diagnostic view
OBIEE
10 Jul 2012 Applying patches to OBIEE : 11.1.1.6.2 BP1
OBIEE
02 Jul 2012 Downloading OBIEE patches from Oracle with wget
OBIEE
11 Jun 2012 Running the RCU from the commandline
OBIEE
24 May 2012 OBIEE Administration Tool - Import Metadata shows no schemas
OBIEE
22 May 2012 OBIEE performance tuning myth : BI Server logging
OBIEE
22 May 2012 Public training schedule for 2012-H2 announced
OBIEE
11 May 2012 screen and OBIEE
OBIEE
20 Apr 2012 RittmanMead Webinar Series 2012
OBIEE
19 Mar 2012 New Training Courses and Seminars from Rittman Mead
OBIEE
23 Jan 2012 Configuring OBI 11g to use port 80
OBIEE
04 Jan 2012 Scripted OBI 11g Linux startup/shutdown
OBIEE

2011

20 Dec 2011 Event Triggers in BI Publisher 11g
OBIEE
28 Nov 2011 Blogging
OBIEE
24 Nov 2011 Accessing BI Publisher 11g Web Services through a JDeveloper Web Service Proxy
OBIEE
24 Nov 2011 Calling BI Publisher 11g Web Services from BPEL
OBIEE
24 Nov 2011 Web Services in BI Publisher 11g
OBIEE
10 Oct 2011 Instrumenting OBIEE - the final chapter
dbms_application_info
16 Sep 2011 Friday miscellany
OBIEE
15 Aug 2011 New blog from Oracle - OBI Product Assurance
bi
08 Aug 2011 Did you hear that thunk? That was me falling off my chair in shock
hp
08 Aug 2011 Have you defined CLIENT_ID in OBIEE yet?
OBIEE
08 Aug 2011 OBIEE 10.1.3.4.2 released
OBIEE
04 Aug 2011 Security issue on OBIEE 10.1.3.4.1, 11.1.1.3
bug
13 Jul 2011 Undocumented nqcmd parameters
documentation
19 May 2011 OBIEE performance - get your database sweating
bi
08 Mar 2011 OBIEE Systems Management - dodgy counter behaviour
bi
23 Feb 2011 Changing LDAP settings in an OBIEE RPD with UDML
hack
02 Feb 2011 Instrumenting OBIEE for tracing Oracle DB calls
log

2010

06 Dec 2010 Adding OBIEE monitoring graphs into OAS
hack
06 Dec 2010 Charting OBIEE performance data with gnuplot
gnuplot
06 Dec 2010 Collecting OBIEE systems management data with jmx
jmx
06 Dec 2010 OBIEE monitoring
hack
03 Dec 2010 OBIEE 10g - javahost hang
javahost
02 Dec 2010 Troubleshooting OBIEE - LDAP (ADSI) authentication
OBIEE
04 Nov 2010 A Poor Man’s OBIEE EM/BI Management Pack
jmx
27 Oct 2010 Two excellent OBI presentations from Jeff McQuigg
OBIEE
19 Oct 2010 awk - split a fixed width file into separate files named on content
OBIEE
13 Sep 2010 RTFM? But where TF is the FM? » Offline searchable OBIEE 11g documentation
documentation
14 Jun 2010 Measuring real user response times for OBIEE
OBIEE
11 Jun 2010 Scripts to extract information from OBIEE NQQuery.log
hack
03 Jun 2010 OBIEE 11g launch date - 7th July 2010
OBIEE
24 May 2010 Performance Testing and OBIEE
biforum
21 May 2010 RittmanMead BI Forum 2010
OBIEE
17 May 2010 Validating EBS-BI authentication, without BI
obia
21 Apr 2010 My first presentation - help!
OBIEE
18 Mar 2010 OBIEE 11g tidbit - XUDML support
OBIEE
05 Mar 2010 Securing OBIEE Systems Management JMX for remote access
jmx
05 Mar 2010 Who’s been at the cookie jar? EBS-BI authentication and Load Balancers
cluster
15 Feb 2010 Oracle Support blog no more
OBIEE
10 Feb 2010 Exadata V2 POC numbers
OBIEE
26 Jan 2010 Identify your OBIEE users by setting Client ID in Oracle connection
OBIEE
22 Jan 2010 How to resolve “[nQSError: 12002] Socket communication error at call=: (Number=-1) Unknown”
config

2009

18 Dec 2009 libnnz10.so: cannot restore segment prot after reloc: Permission denied
OBIEE
14 Dec 2009 Running the OBIEE admin tool on Unix
OBIEE
11 Dec 2009 CAF
caf
09 Dec 2009 Troubleshooting Presentation Services / analytics connectivity
OBIEE
03 Dec 2009 UKOUG TEBS 2009
OBIEE
25 Nov 2009 OBIEE application servers, now and future
oas
25 Nov 2009 SoOotW and sweep
OBIEE
12 Nov 2009 Deploying Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition on Sun Systems
cluster
06 Nov 2009 OBIEE clustering - specifying multiple Presentation Services from Presentation Services Plug-in
load-balancing
03 Nov 2009 Advanced Googling for OBIEE information
google
03 Nov 2009 CAF installation video
caf
30 Oct 2009 The state of OBIEE on the web
OBIEE
22 Oct 2009 Troubleshooting OBIEE and ORA-12154: TNS:could not resolve the connect identifier
OBIEE
21 Oct 2009 Critical Patch Update - OBIEE vuln CVE-2009-1990
bug
19 Oct 2009 New OBIEE blogs
OBIEE
16 Oct 2009 BI Server hung - nQSError 14054 / 15001 / 23005
OBIEE
16 Oct 2009 Heads up - Critical Patch Update affecting OBIEE
bug
12 Oct 2009 New OBIEE benchmark - 50,000 users
OBIEE
06 Oct 2009 Usage Tracking - only half the story …
OBIEE
01 Oct 2009 OBIEE and HP Performance Center (a.k.a. LoadRunner) - Notes
loadrunner
01 Oct 2009 Performance testing OBIEE using HP Performance Center (a.k.a. LoadRunner)
loadrunner
18 Sep 2009 Collated OBIEE benchmarks
OBIEE
17 Sep 2009 OBIEE benchmarks
OBIEE
15 Sep 2009 OBIEE cluster controller failover in action
cluster
10 Sep 2009 OBIEE on Opera 10 / IE 7 / FF 3.5 / Chrome 4
firefox
08 Sep 2009 AdminTool.exe /command
admintool
04 Sep 2009 RSS feeds for OBIEE, including del.icio.us obiee tags
OBIEE
03 Sep 2009 CAF troubles
caf
02 Sep 2009 Metalink 3 RIP
OBIEE
25 Aug 2009 Multiple RPDs on one server - Part 1 - the BI Server
OBIEE
25 Aug 2009 Multiple RPDs on one server - Part 2 - Presentation Services
hack
24 Aug 2009 OBIEE error/message code reference
OBIEE
21 Aug 2009 OBIEE and Load Runner - part 2
loadrunner
21 Aug 2009 Querying SQL Server from OBIEE running on Unix
OBIEE
19 Aug 2009 OBIEE and Load Runner - part 1
loadrunner
14 Aug 2009 Unix script to report on OBIEE and OBIA processes state
apache
30 Jul 2009 What is OBIA…
obia
29 Jul 2009 OBIEE performance monitoring and alerting with jManage
jmanage
28 Jul 2009 How to find out what web application server is in use
oas
24 Jul 2009 OBIEE Windows PerfMon counters
hack
23 Jul 2009 Mark Rittman’s OBIEE repository for DAC
dac
23 Jul 2009 psservice - Windows command line goodness!
hack
23 Jul 2009 sawserver charts crash
bug
21 Jul 2009 JConsole / JMX - followup
jmx
21 Jul 2009 OBIEE admin tools & hacks
hack
16 Jul 2009 JConsole / JMX
jmx
28 May 2009 nqcmd and [nQSError: 27005] Unresolved column
OBIEE
18 May 2009 Custom HTTP error page in OBIEE / OAS
apache
28 Apr 2009 New releases
obia
15 Apr 2009 OBIEE and F5 BIG-IP
apache
01 Apr 2009 sawserver won’t start up - resolved
OBIEE
30 Mar 2009 sawserver won’t start (analytics: Servlet error java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused (errno:239))
OBIEE
24 Mar 2009 Clustering Publisher - Scheduler and Report Repository
bi-publisher
24 Mar 2009 Which jdbc driver to use
bi-publisher
23 Mar 2009 OBIEE Publisher - configuring connection to clustered BI Server
bi-publisher