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Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 12c - Second Edition

By : Adrian Ward, Christian Screen, Haroun Khan
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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

Using WLST


Every Oracle BI Administrator should know the WLST. Eventually, the need will arise to use some advanced features against the application server - WLS - that hosts Oracle BI in order to automate or make short work of repetitive functions. In Oracle BI 12c, it's the lifecycle-management tools where administrators will make the most use of WLST. WLST is one of the ways in which you can interface with the application server. WLST is fairly straightforward to use. Its command-line interface is launched from a directory underneath the ORACLE_HOME installation root of Oracle BI 12c; typically, on the server for which the installation resides. However, WLST, when located on a networked server, may communicate with any another WebLogic Server located on the network.

Let's conduct a quick exercise that will show you how to launch the WLST interface. In addition, you'll run a few quick commands to return some simple data from the WLS server.

  1. Launch WLST from a Terminal or command-prompt window...