Requirements Installing the Lineage in an OBIEE Server

6 Product TitleBookTitle as a Variable The wizard displays a sequence of screens, in the order listed in Table 19–1 . 2. Follow the instructions in Table 19–1 . If you need additional help with any of the installation screens, click Help to access the online help. After installing the Lineage on the OBIEE Server, you should deploy the OBIEE Lineage Artifacts. See Section 19.2.4, Post-Installation Tasks for more information. Table 19–1 Instructions for Deploying the OBIEE Lineage Artifacts 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 Install Lineage in OBIEE Server. 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 your existing OBIEE Repository for deploying the required Lineage Artifacts: ■ 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. 4 OBIEE Web Catalog Connection Information Screen If Install Lineage in OBIEE Server or Export OBIEE Metadata and Refresh Lineage is selected on the Select Action screen. If using OBIEE 10g, this screen is disabled. You must manually install the Lineage Artifacts. See Section 19.2.4, Post-Installation Tasks for more information. Provide the connection information to the OBIEE Web Catalog for installing the required Lineage Artifacts: ■ OBIEE Version : Displays the OBIEE version. This version is detected from the RPD selected in the previous screen. ■ Web Catalog Location : Enter the location of the OBIEE Web Catalog. ■ OBIEE Instance Home : Enter the Home Directory of your OBIEE Instance. For example: C:\OBIEE\Middleware\instances\insta nce1. ■ Web Catalog Folder Name : Enter the name of the web catalog folder into which the Lineage Artifacts will be deployed. For example: shared Click Next to continue and deploy the lineage artifacts. 5 Action Complete Screen Always Click Finish to complete the wizard. 7

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.