Saturday, January 12, 2013

Oracle BI Applications (BI Apps) 7.9.6.3 Installation


This post shows how to install BI Apps 7.9.6.3 with OBIEE 11.1.1.5.0 version on  Windows 7 environment.
Download BI Apps 7.9.6.3, which is released for OBIEE 11g (11.1.1.5 or higher) from the following link
Extract the .zip file in your hard disc and run the setup.exe file to start the installation wizard


Click next
Specify installation location. Select the following location paths for BI Home, Instance and Domains and then click Next
BI Oracle Home: <install directory>\Oracle_BI1
Oracle Instance: <install directory>\instances\instance_number
Domain Home: <install directory>\user_projects\domains\bifoundation_domain
Specify WebLogic Administration Server Details i.e port, user name (OBIEE Admin user)  and password and then click Next
Note: if you get “Unable to connect to Oracle WebLogic NodeManager. Make sure the NodeManager windows service is running” erros, then open  Start–>All Programs–>Oracle WebLogic –> Oracle WebLogic Server 11gR1–> Tools –> Node Manger. A command prompt window will open, its looks like the following
If you get the above error, click Back and then Next in the installation wizard. If not just ignore the above step and continue with your installation.
Click Next after choosing the Applications you would like to install
Click Next to see the summary of the selected applications and click Next to start the installation.
Click Finish to complete the installation.
Navigate to <install directory>\Oracle_BI1\biapps\repository to see the BI Apps repositories.
Password to both repositories is Admin123, you can see it in AdminToolCmdFile.txt file
Open anyone of these repositories using Oracle BI Administration tool in Off line mode to confirm that it is working…
Remember, Default password for Oracle BI Apps 7.9.6.3 repositories  is Admin123