Thursday, November 5, 2015

OBIEE 11G: How to Change the default user or weblogic password

If you want to change the default password for the default user. The default user could be named anything at installation time.


For example: weblogic, weblogic_admin, biadmin

Below Steps to change the default password:

Step1: Log in to the Weblogic console
  •   Click on Security in the left pane.
  •   Click on 'My Realm'
  •  Click on 'Users and Groups' tab.
  •   Drill down on any user whose password has to be changed, in this case for example, weblogic user.
  •   Navigate to 'Password' tab.
  •   Enter the password into New Password and Confirm Password text boxes.

Step2:  Navigate to the below locations:
  • D:\OBIEE11g\product\fmw\user_projects\domains\bifoundation_domain\servers\AdminServer\security
  • D:\OBIEE11g\product\fmw\user_projects\domains\bifoundation_domain\servers\bi_server1\security

Rename the boot.properties file to any name or remove the file.

Step3: Stop BI Services & Start BI Services

  • Stop BI Services, it will ask weblogic username and password, provide the username and modified password.
  • Start BI Services.


NOTE: It is recommended that before changing the password, you create a new user ACCOUNT with administration privileges (Administrators, BIAdministrators).