Installing and Starting the OBIEE Lineage Wizard Deploying the OBIEE Lineage Artifacts using the Wizard

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19.2.4 Post-Installation Tasks

This section describes the post-installation tasks. Theses tasks depend on your OBIEE Server version. For OBIEE 10g, you need to perform the following post-installation tasks: ■ Deploy the Web Catalog Requests in the OBIEE 10g Web Catalog ■ Deploy the Dashboard Images ■ Update the BI Physical Layer Connection to the ODI Work Repository For OBIEE 11g, you need to perform the following post-installation tasks: ■ Deploy the Dashboard Images ■ Update the BI Physical Layer Connection to the ODI Work Repository Deploy the Web Catalog Requests in the OBIEE 10g Web Catalog The OBIEEODI Lineage comes with a Web Catalog for building your reports on top of the Lineage and ODI Repository tables. To import the Web Catalog requests, perform the following steps:

1. Connect to your Web Catalog.

To connect to your Web Catalog:

1. Select Start All Programs Oracle Business Intelligence Catalog

Manager .

2. Click File Open Catalog.

3. Provide the path to the web catalog used by the BI Server.

4. Click OK.

2. Optional Step Make a backup copy of the catalog into which you want to install

the lineage artifacts. To make a backup copy:

1. Select the catalog.

2. Select File Archive.

3. Provide a name for the archive file, for example webcatalog_backup.cat.

4. Click OK.

3. Expand the catalog and select the shared folder into which the ODI catalog items

will be imported.

4. Select File Unarchive.

5. In the Unarchive catalog window, enter in the Archive File Path field the location

of the ODI catalog archive file. Note that this file is located in the artifacts10g sub-folder of the Lineage installation folder. ■ For OBIEE 10.1.3.3, enter artifacts10godi_catalog_archive_ 10g.cat Note: This procedure is required for OBIEE 10g only. 8 Product TitleBookTitle as a Variable ■ For OBIEE 10.1.3.4, enter artifacts10godi_catalog_archive_10_ 1_3_4.cat

6. Click OK.

A new folder called ODI appears in the catalog folder. Deploy the Dashboard Images The prepackaged requests use images that should be deployed into the application server that hosts the analytic application. Theses tasks depend on your OBIEE Server version: ■ For OBIEE 10g, copy the dashboard images hie.gif and lin.gif, located in the in the artifactsimages sub-folder of the Lineage installation folder to the res folder under the deployment directory of the BI analytics application. For example: OC4J_HOME\j2ee\home\applications\analytics\analytics\res ■ For OBIEE 11g, copy the dashboard images hie.gif and lin.gif, located in the in the artifactsimages sub-folder of the Lineage installation folder to the res folder under the deployment directory of the BI analytics application. For example: DOMAIN_HOME\servers\SERVER_NAME\tmp\_WL_user\analytics_ 11.1.1\7dezjl\war\res Update the BI Physical Layer Connection to the ODI Work Repository 1. Start the Oracle BI Administration tool. For example, select All Programs Oracle Business Intelligence Administration. 2. Open the RPD file .rpd used by the BI Server.

3. Expand the ORACLE_ODI_REPOSITORY database in the OBIEE Physical Layer,

double-click the Connection Pool node, and edit the Connection Pool to match your ODI work repository configuration: 1. Update the Data source name, Username and Password fields.

2. Click OK.

3. Right-click the Physical schema and rename it to match the schema of the ODI Work Repository.

4. Click OK to save your changes.

4. Expand the renamed schema and test this updated connection as follows: 1. Right-click one of the tables of this physical schema and updating the row count.

2. Right-click the same table again and select View data to view data with the

updated row count.

19.3 Exporting Metadata from OBIEE and Refreshing the OBIEE Lineage

This section describes how to export metadata from the OBIEE Repository and Web Catalog and how to consolidate it with ODI Metadata into the Lineage. To export metadata from OBIEE and Refresh Lineage: 9 1. Start the OBIEE Lineage wizard as described in Section 19.2.3.1, Installing and Starting the OBIEE Lineage Wizard . The wizard displays a sequence of screens, in the order listed in Table 19–2 . 2. Follow the instructions in Table 19–2 . If you need additional help with any of the installation screens, click Help to access the online help. Note: With OBIEE 10g it is not possible to automatically export the web catalog content; As a consequence, you need to perform manually an export of the web catalog content. See Section 19.4.2, Exporting the OBIEE Web Catalog Report to a Text File for more information. You will provide the location of this export file to the wizard. Note: You can also use the refresh lineage script instead of the OBIEE Lineage wizard. See Section 19.5.3, Automating Lineage Refresh for more information. Table 19–2 Instructions for Exporting Metadata from OBIEE and Refreshing Lineage No. Screen When Does This Screen Appear? Description and Action Required 1 Welcome Screen Always Click Next to continue. 2 Select Action Screen Always Select Export Metadata from OBIEE and Refresh Lineage . Click Next to continue. 3 OBIEE Repository Connection Information Screen If Install Lineage in OBIEE Server or Export Metadata from OBIEE and Refresh Lineage is selected on the Select Action screen Provide the connection information to the OBIEE Repository for extracting Metadata: ■ Oracle Home : Specify the Oracle Home directory for the OBIEE installation. You can click Browse to select an existing directory in your system. For example: C:obiee11gOracle_ BI1 ■ RPD File Location : Enter the location of your BIEE Repository RPD file. ■ User : Enter the OBIEE repository administrator user name. This field is only mandatory for OBIEE 10g and is disabled for OBIEE 11g. ■ Password : Enter the OBIEE repository administrator password. Click Next to continue.