Book Image

Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 12c - Second Edition

By : Adrian Ward, Christian Screen, Haroun Khan
Book Image

Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 12c - Second Edition

By: Adrian Ward, Christian Screen, Haroun Khan

Overview of this book

Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) 12c is packed full of features and has a fresh approach to information presentation, system management, and security. OBIEE can help any organization to understand its data, to make useful information from data, and to ensure decision-making is supported by facts. OBIEE can focus on information that needs action, alerting users when conditions are met. OBIEE can be used for data analysis, form production, dashoarding, and workflow processes. We will introduce you to OBIEE features and provide a step-by-step guide to build a complete system from scratch. With this guide, you will be equipped with a good basic understanding of what the product contains, how to install and configure it, and how to create effective Business Intelligence. This book contains the necessary information for a beginner to create a high-performance OBIEE 12c system. This book is also a guide that explains how to use an existing OBIEE 12c system, and shows end users how to create.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 12c - second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Automating starting and stopping


A very common question among enterprise deployments of an Oracle BI solution is, How can I have Oracle BI start up when the server boots? Or, especially with a Windows OS, How can I log off the server where Oracle BI resides and still keep the Oracle BI server application running? The solution or answer to this question is ancillary when compared to the overall architecture, security, and metadata modeling efforts behind the main BI effort. Nonetheless, once this keep-alive solution is implemented you'll wonder how you did without it.

On a Windows OS we can take advantage of Windows Services. On a *Nix server we can take advantage of the rc.local or init.d and chkconfig system start up and shutdown functions. Either approach involves writing a few short batch (or shell on *Nix) scripts, saving them to the appropriate location on the server and assigning the scripts to the correct start-up and shutdown function delegate for the operating system.

Regardless of...