8: OBIEE 11g Upgrades from 10g

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Questions This Presentation Will Answer

How to upgrade BI EE 10g to 11g? Changes to be aware of during the upgrade Security Changes Repository Behavior changes Report behavior changes Charts look & feel changes

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Oracle BI Upgrade - 10g to 11g - Pre-Requisite steps

Ensure upgrade support BI EE 10.1.3.2 or higher BI Publisher 10.1.3.4 or higher RTD 3.0.0.1 or higher Decide on BI EE 11g topology Single Instance Multi-Instance Cluster (Vertical or Horizontal cluster etc) DMZ or firewall configuration Install/Configure RCU and BI EE 11g Ensure tnsnames.ora used in 10g is made available in 11g Any custom NQSConfig.ini changes in 10g Apply them in 11g

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Oracle BI Upgrade - Steps

Upgrade process Done through the Upgrade utility Requires a BI EE 11g instance up and running Can upgrade only to a local weblogic instance 10g Web Catalog and Repository to be copied on to 11g instance Security automatically migrated to weblogic - Users with expired passwords do not get migrated RPD pushed online even if in-consistent Reports migrated automatically

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Oracle BI Upgrade - What can be upgraded

BI EE Repository Security Web Catalog Reports/Dashboards Delivers Jobs Delivers Schema BI Publisher Security Data Sources Reports - Will split automatically into Data Model, Templates & Reports Real Time Decisions

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Oracle BI Upgrade - What cannot be upgraded - Manual

BI EE 10g cluster not automatically upgraded - One at a time Any Custom Style/Skin Any custom XML Messages Any custom images/files uploaded to OC4J Any changes to instanceconfig.xml, config.xml Any custom jar files uploaded to Javahost Scheduler Script Path OBIPS User Pref Currencies Config file OBIPS PDF Font map file BI Publisher If BI Server Security is used, update to Admin page for Web Catalog source

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BI EE Web Catalog Upgrade - 10g to 11g

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BI Publisher Upgrade - 10g to 11g

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8: OBIEE 11g Upgrades from 10g

Labs - BI EE Repository & Web Catalog Upgrade

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Oracle BI Upgrade - Step 1

Run the Upgrade Assistant ua.bat file

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Oracle BI Upgrade - Step 2

Choose BI EE Repository & Web Catalog Upgrade

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Oracle BI Upgrade - Step 3

Choose Repository Provide a RPD Encryption password Enter the Administrator username/password of 10g Provide the Web Catalog path Provide the Deliveries directory path Mostly empty in 10g Used internally by BI EE 10g for briefing book snapshots

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Oracle BI Upgrade - Step 4

Provide the Weblogic Admin Server Port Enter the username/password used during 11g install

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Oracle BI Upgrade - Step 5

Start the upgrade Ensure there are no warnings, errors in the logs If there are some, ensure each such instance is corrected Validate Repository in online mode Reports & Dashboards

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8: OBIEE 11g Upgrades from 10g

Labs - BI EE Repository & Web Catalog Upgrade

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8: OBIEE 11g Upgrades from 10g

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