BI Publisher 10g on Weblogic 10.3.4 : Common Error

If you are trying to use BI Publisher 10g on Weblogic Server 10.3.4 it is very likely you have missed one important step in your installation.

In the Release Notes (search for "BI Publisher Deployments to WebLogic 10.3 Require Additional Setting at Startup")
It clearly explains that we have to update the Weblogic Startup script to make WLS aware of the toplink libraries (which in the case of OC4J it is already included) for the scheduler to work:

Locate the startup script as follows:

/weblogic_home/user_projects/domains/base_domain/bin/startWebLogic.sh

Add the following setting:

-Dtoplink.xml.platform=oracle.toplink.platform.xml.jaxp.JAXPPlatform 

As in the picture

This setting is required to enable BI Publisher to find the TopLink JAR files to create the Scheduler tables.

Enabling LOG messages in BI Publisher 10g

Enabling BI Publisher 10g to DEBUG mode is pretty simple. I will show you how to do it in OC4J.

1. Stop OC4J
2. Make a backup of this file:
C:\OracleBI\xmlp\XMLP\Admin\Configuration\xmlp-server-config.xml
3. Modify the file xmlp-server-config.xml and set this value:
   <property name="DEBUG_LEVEL" value="debug"/>
4. Save the file
5. Restart OC4J

It should be now in Debug mode

Oracle BI Publisher 10g - New patch released (March 2011)

A quick note to just let know our followers that there is a new BI Publisher 10g patch released just today through the Oracle Support site: http://metalink.oracle.com

Patch 11846804: UPDATE FOR BI PUBLISHER ENTERPRISE 10.1.3.4.1 MARCH 2011

We will look into it and see if there are useful things which were corrected.

Stay tuned BI Publisher 10.1.3.4.2 is coming soon!

BI Publisher 10g: Switching from BI Server to XDO security mode

The BIEE10g default installation provides BIEE services as well BI Publisher services. Also, by default from this installation BI Publisher 10g is configured to authenticate all users through BI Server: “BI_SERVER”. But there is a way to switch BI Publisher from this pre-configured authentication mode to its own: “XDO”.
First, make sure all BIEE and BI Publisher (OC4J) services are down, next just (first make a back up of this file) modify the file xmlp-server-config.xml located at: C:\OracleBI\xmlp\XMLP\Admin\Configuration

and modify the entry from   <property name="SECURITY_MODEL" value="BI_SERVER"/>  to   <property name="SECURITY_MODEL" value="XDO"/>

 

Now, all you need to do is launch “Start OC4J” icon from your “Business Intelligence” programs group and immediately after BI Publisher will be running in stand alone mode. There is no need to have BI Server services running at all.

The predefined user for this setting is Administrator and password is Administrator. Now all users are controled and authenticated through BI Publisher interface.