Using the Lineage Lineage Lifecycle

4 Product TitleBookTitle as a Variable Installation Flow when Using OBIEE 10g When using OBIEE 10g, the OBIEE Lineage wizard installs only the Lineage RPD. To install the Lineage Web Catalog Requests and the dashboard images, you have to perform some additional tasks. The following installation flow describes the complete installation instructions, including the deployment of the Web Catalog Requests and Images: 1. Review the Requirements . 2. Installing and Starting the OBIEE Lineage Wizard . Note that you can also use the install lineage script instead of the OBIEE Lineage wizard. See Section 19.5.2, Automating Lineage Deployment for more information. 3. Use the OBIEE Lineage wizard to install Lineage in OBIEE Server and deploy the OBIEE Lineage artifacts. See Section 19.2.3.2, Deploying the OBIEE Lineage Artifacts using the Wizard . 4. Deploy the Web Catalog requests in the OBIEE 10g Web Catalog. See Section 19.2.4, Post-Installation Tasks . 5. Deploy the images. See Section 19.2.4, Post-Installation Tasks . 6. Update the BI Physical Layer Connection to ODI Work Repository. See Section 19.2.4, Post-Installation Tasks . Installation Flow when Using OBIEE 11g When using OBIEE 11g, the OBIEE Lineage wizard installs only the Lineage RPD and the Web catalog Requests. To install the dashboard images, you have to perform some additional tasks. The following installation flow describes the complete installation instructions, including the deployment Images: 1. Review the Requirements . 2. Installing and Starting the OBIEE Lineage Wizard . Note that you can also use the install lineage script instead of the OBIEE Lineage wizard. See Section 19.5.2, Automating Lineage Deployment for more information. 3. Use the OBIEE Lineage wizard to install Lineage in OBIEE Server and deploy the OBIEE Lineage artifacts. See Section 19.2.3.2, Deploying the OBIEE Lineage Artifacts using the Wizard . 4. Deploy the images. See Section 19.2.4, Post-Installation Tasks . 5. Update the BI Physical Layer Connection to ODI Work Repository. See Section 19.2.4, Post-Installation Tasks .

19.2.2 Requirements

Before installing OBIEE Lineage, you should review the following requirements: ■ The OBIEE Lineage Wizard requires a Java Runtime Environment 1.6 JRE. Before starting the wizard, make sure that your JAVA_HOME is pointing to a valid JRE. ■ The work repository has to bes stored in an Oracle database. ■ Before installing the artifacts, stop the BI Server and BI Presentation services component. ■ Make a backup copy of the OBIEE RPD and Webcat. 5 ■ Make sure the RPD file used by the server is NOT open in the BI Admin tool. ■ Install and Execute OBIEE Lineage Wizard or Command Line tools on the machine where the BI Admin tool is installed. ■ The database user used to connect the Work Repository schema must have sufficient privileges to create views in the schema hosting the Work Repository.

19.2.3 Installation Instructions

This section provides the installation instructions and contains the following topics: ■ Installing and Starting the OBIEE Lineage Wizard ■ Deploying the OBIEE Lineage Artifacts using the Wizard

19.2.3.1 Installing and Starting the OBIEE Lineage Wizard

The OBIEE Lineage wizard is included in the odiobilineage.zip file in the ODI Companion CD in the miscbiee-lineage folder. Perform the following steps to start the OBIEE Lineage wizard: 1. Extract the contents of the zip file to a directory. For example, extract the content of this file to C:\biee_lineage\ folder. 2. Start the wizard by executing one of the following commands from the bin sub-folder: ■ On UNIX operating systems: .refreshlineage.sh ■ On Windows operating systems: refreshlineage.bat You can also use the installlineage.bat script to start the wizard. When one of these scripts is started with no parameter, it opens the OBIEE Lineage Wizard

19.2.3.2 Deploying the OBIEE Lineage Artifacts using the Wizard

This section describes how to install OBIEE Lineage in OBIEE Server and how to deploy the required OBIEE Lineage artifacts in the OBIEE Repository and Web Catalog using the OBIEE Lineage wizard. To install Lineage in OBIEE Server and deploy the required artifacts: 1. Start the wizard as described in Section 19.2.3.1, Installing and Starting the OBIEE Lineage Wizard . Note: After performing the installation instructions, please perform the required post-installation tasks describes in Section 19.2.4, Post-Installation Tasks . Note: You can also use the install lineage script instead of the OBIEE Lineage wizard for installing the Lineage Artifacts from a command line. The install and export options are supported only on Windows. The refresh lineage option is supported both on Windows and Unix. See Section 19.5.2, Automating Lineage Deployment for more information.