How to reset/change the 'Administrator' password in OBIEE, BI Publisher and BI

Scheduler

There is a requirement to reset the 'Administrator' password for:

i) 'OBIEE'
ii) 'BI Publisher' and
iii) 'BI Scheduler'.

Solution
The steps to perform this task are below.

The example solution begins by creating a BI Publisher superuser.

On both OBIEE and BI Publisher.

Start username/password:    Administrator/Administrator

After username/password    Administrator/admin3

BI Publisher superuser username/password admin2/admin2

After the test it was proved that it was possible to log into OBIEE and click on the preconfigured
Dashboard.

Please follow the exact steps below and create the same usernames and passwords to start off
with.

1. Take a backup copy of the

c:\OracleBI\xmlp\XMLP\Admin\Configuration\xmlp-server-config.xml

file.
2. Log into BI Publisher
3. Select Admin > Security Center > Security Configuration
4. Enable a Local Superuser called: admin2 with the password admin2
. Click <Apply>

5. Restart oc4j
6. Sign into BI Publisher as  admin2/admin2
This should log in successfully.

7. Log into OBIEE Admintool (Online) and change the Administrator password to 'admintool'.
8. Check in and save the changes.
9. Log into OBIEE Answers as Administrator/admin3
10. Change the 'Administrator' password under the 'Security Model' to 'admin3'. Click <Apply>
11. Restart oc4j
12. Login to BI Publisher as Administrator/admin3
This should log in successfully.

13. Log into OBIEE Answers as Administrator/admin3

14. Click on More Products > BI Publisher
15. This should go straight through to BI Publisher without prompting for a username and
password.

If the above method still fails attach your c:\OracleBI\xmlp\XMLP\Admin\Configuration\xmlp-

server-config.xml file for comparison. It is expected that the encrypted password strings exactly
match your environment.

** BI Scheduler password **

This password can be changed in 'schconfig' from the DOS/UNIX command line/shell.

C:\>schconfig
Copyright (c) 1997-2006 Oracle Corporation, All rights reserved

***** Delivers Configuration Menu *****

1 - Configure Scheduler

>>> Enter Choice: 1

***** Scheduler Configuration *****

1 - Database
2 - General
3 - Advanced
0 - Quit

>>> Enter Choice:

>>> Enter Choice: 2

***** Scheduler General Configuration *****

10 - Administrator Name : Administrator
11 - Administrator Password : *****
0 - Quit

>>> Enter Choice: 10, then 11

0 - Quit
0 - Quit
0 - Quit
>>>>>>>>

Quit 3 times and restart all Analytics Services (To bring them back in sync. Restarting the BI
Scheduler on its own also works, but Job Manager connections may exhibit stale behaviour
depending on what has been changed) .