OBIEE Metadata Upgrade (10g to 11g) - RPD
Like most
software upgrades, generally the newer version would provide some type of
backward compatibility. Well, with the recently released Oracle Business
Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) 11g, you will not have the ability to
do so. Due to the major enhancements of the OBIEE toolset, there is no way to
seamlessly migrate our metadata from 10g to 11g. The road ahead may be a little
gloomy for 10g but fear not, there is still some light down the tunnel.
Fortunately, bundled with OBIEE 11g is an upgrade utility called “Oracle Fusion
Middleware Upgrade Assistant.”
The Upgrade
Assistant provides option for RPD and Presentation Catalog upgrades. In Part 1,
we will tackle the RPD metadata upgrade. To see how to upgrade your
Presentation Catalog metadata, please jump to Part 2 of our OBIEE Metadata
Upgrade.
Now to the juicy
part — The Upgrade Assistant utility only has 8 steps and is extremely
user-friendly:
1. Upload
your 10g RPD onto the Box where you have previously installed OBIEE 11g
2. Now
navigate to $OracleBI_HOME/bin and
execute the “ua” utility
3. This
utility is available in both Windows and Linux
– Check “Upgrade Oracle BI RPD and Presentation Catalog” and click “Next”
– Check “Upgrade Oracle BI RPD and Presentation Catalog” and click “Next”
4.
Since we are only upgrading our RPD, check “Upgrade Repository (RPD)” on the
next screen
5.
Provide the Username/Password for Administrator (i.e. Administrator/Administrator
6. Starting OBIEE 11g, there is a new security
feature: The RPD now has a password as well!!!! This security is partially to
protect the RPD access, but largely to prevent overwriting the RPD on the
server itself. Users without RPD password will not be able to push a new or
updated copy of RPD to the BI Server. With that in mind, provide RPD password
(i.e. SADMIN) and click “Next”
7. In
this version, weblogic is bundled with OBIEE, so generally it is installed on
the same box, if not, specify the required connection details:
8.
Review your upgrade configuration and complete your upgrade process
There are some
issues with joins in the RPD’s physical and logical diagram.
In order for you to fully complete this upgrade, all your joins may have to be recreated manually.
In order for you to fully complete this upgrade, all your joins may have to be recreated manually.
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