How to Manage OBIEE services Manually

Start your Oracle Database

Start Weblogic Node Manager
ORACLE_BIEE_HOME/wlserver_10.3/server/bin/startNodeManager.cmd

Steps to Manually Start Oracle BIEE 11g

1. ORACLE_BIEE_HOME/user_projects/domains/bifoundation_domain/bin/startWebLogic.cmd

2. ORACLE_BIEE_HOME/user_projects/domains/bifoundation_domain/bin/startManagedWebLogic.cmd bi_server1

3. ORACLE_BIEE_HOME/instances/instance1/bin/opmnctl startall

Steps to Manually Stop Oracle BIEE 11g

1. ORACLE_BIEE_HOME/instances/instance1/bin/opmnctl stopall

2. ORACLE_BIEE_HOME/user_projects/domains/bifoundation_domain/bin/stopManagedWebLogic.cmd bi_server1

3.ORACLE_BIEE_HOME/user_projects/domains/bifoundation_domain/bin/stopWebLogic.cmd

Merge 2 obiee rpd

The steps to merge two rpd in obiee are as follows :

1) Create a dummy rpd without any metadata and name it as dummy.rpd

2) Currently we are working on an rpd names sales.rpd. Our requirement is to merge the sales.rpd with usage.rpd.

3) Open the current rpd ie, sales.rpd and the select File --> Merge.

4) Choose the merge decision as current

5) Here is the merged rpd

Connection Failed - Unable to import Metadata in OBIEE RPD

When we try to import metadata into the new rpd in obiee 11g, we may face the following error.

Solution 

  1) Copy tnsnames.ora file from C:\app\oracle\product\11.2.0\dbhome_1\NETWORK\ADMIN
 to
 C:\OBIHOME\Oracle_BI1\network\admin 

2) Stop the BI services and start the BI services.

3) Now try to import the metadata.