Installing - OBIEE 11g

After completing the Installation of RCU , the following has to be started. So RCU is a pre-requisite for the OBIEE Installation.

A bright flash screen !!!

welcome screen from the installer

I opted the Simple Install so that it configures with default settings.

Pre Check , here I am warned about the missing RPM and kernel settings. I installed the RPM and tuned the kernel settings.

The username of the administrator and the password. we can also create any name for the administrator username other than the default weblogic.

Oracle Home for the installation has to be selected. Before selecting make sure that you have sufficient space also you can refer to the installation document to know the minimum space required.

The list of components that will be installed as a part of this installation.

Here specify the details of the database where the repository has been created. 

Here specify the mysupport email address and password to get notified on the security updates.

Pre-Install Summary for review

After clicking the install button , the installation process starts

The final screen of a successful installation with the details of the Oracle Home and the URLs of the application.

With this we have completed a health installation of OBIEE 11g.

Repository Creation Utility - OBIEE 11g

RCU is the short name and is basically used to create the database schema for Fusion Middleware 11g.

The first screen welcomes you !!!

This screen provides an option to create or drop the FMW schema. Here I have selected Create option so that I can create the schema for OBIEE.

This screen helps to specify the database and its details where the repository will be created. It also provides an option to install the repository on a RAC database.

Next the RCU validates the database. Here I got a warning message that the database is not AL32UTF8 character set. I have opted to ignore but it is recommended to create the database with the AL32UTF8 character set.

The below screen lists a successful pre-check.

Next I have given a Prefix and also selected "Business Intelligence Platform" , automatically the dependencies are selected.

Prerequisites relevant to BI are checked and verified in the below screen.

Here we have to input the password for the schemas , I have opted a common password.

Review screen for the tablespaces.

The below screen show that the tablespaces are created and validated.

With all the inputs provided summary page is displayed. After verifying it by clicking the create button the necessary schema will be created in the target database.

Information of the successful creation of repository for OBIEE.

Looks good , RCU was simple and good to me.

The next tasks would be to Install OBIEE.