OBIEE 11g installation

NOTE: OBIEE 11g (11.1.1.3) BI Administration Tool does not work under Windows 64-bit OS. It is expected that the next release of OBIEE 11g (11.1.1.4) will support 64-bit Operating Systems for the OBI Client applications. But Presentation Services work with the present release. So, think twice before you take decision to install 11g(11.1.1.3) on 64-bit OS.
So, if you have decided to install on 64-bit machine…follow these steps:

This installation post is going to be series of 3 parts. This is the first of the 3 posts.

Part-1 –> Download software and configuring RCU (Repository Creation Utility)
Part-2–> Installing OBIEE 11g
Part-3–> Configuration

Part-1:
Download OBIEE 11g(11.1.1.3.0) software and RCU(for 32 bits)from here. As there is no RCU for 64bits, download the 32bits one and it works)

also download RCU

Once you download all the files, extract them and keep them under one directory(Keeping RCU in the same directory is not mandatory, just for convinience).

Before starting the installation keep your have got database up and running. RCU will create two schemas in the installation process…

First step of installaton is running RCU (Repository Creation Utility), go to C:\Software\OBIEE11gR1\bishiphome\rcuHome\BIN and double click on rcu.bat file.

Welcome page of the installation wizard will open …click Next. Select Create

Click Next

Enter all the required information, be sure that the database user has got sysdba previlages…Click Next

Click OK

Enter the Prefix (or leave the default one DEV) and select the components install…

Click OK and enter the passwords for all the users (2 users) that created in the following screen…

Click Next

Click OK

Click OK

Click Create

Click Close..we are done with RCU

Once the RCU install : Go to OBIEE11g

OBIEE11g (11.1.1.6) Installation Steps

Download all the OBIEE11g 64 bit files from Oracle site and unzip all the files and click on “setup.exe” on disk 1 to start the installation process.

Click on next

Click on Skip software updates and click next

Click on simple install and click next

Click next

Create a OBIEE11g home directory and ensure there are no spaces on the folder name. Locate the folder and click next.

Provide the Administration user name and password.

Click next

Provide the connect string and metadata schema name (DEV_BIPLATFORM)

Click next

Uncheck the security update and click next.

Click on Install

Once the configuration is 100% complete, click on next.

Once the installation is complete click finish. The system will open up the analytics page.

Login with the weblogic user ID and Password and check the sample reports.