Reporting feature in Oracle Enterprise Repository (OER) requires Oracle Business Intelligence (OBI) Publisher. The entry point for all the reporting is OER and the reports are hosted on OBI Publisher. Configuration is required between OBI Publisher and OER to interact with each other. This is a guide to install and configure OBI Publisher as a reporting server for OER.

1. OER 11g Reports & OBI Publisher 10g
Integration Guide
Sreeni Setty
http://www.linkedin.com/in/sreenisetty

2. INTRODUCTION 3
PREFACE 3
SCOPE 3
INSTALLING OBI PUBLISHER 4
INSTALLATION PLANNING 4
INSTALLATION STEPS 4
POST-INSTALLATION STEPS 8
V ERIFY THE BI PUBLISHER ENTERPRISE 8
CONFIGURING OBI PUBLISHER AND OER REPORTS 9
DEPLOY OER-OBI PUBLISHER CONTENT TO OBI PUBLISHER SERVER 9
CONFIGURE OER JDBC DATA SOURCE WITHIN OBI PUBLISHER 11
CONFIGURE OER SYSTEM SETTINGS TO ENABLE REPORTING 12
APPENDIX 14
REFERENCES 14

3. Introduction
Preface
Reporting feature in Oracle Enterprise Repository (OER) requires Oracle Business Intelligence (OBI) Publisher.
The entry point for all the reporting is OER and the reports are hosted on OBI Publisher.
Configuration is required between OBI Publisher and OER to interact with each other.
Scope
This guide covers the installation of OBI Publisher Enterprise Server 10g (10.1.3.4.1), including planning,
installation and verification; configuring OER with OBI Publisher with system settings, users and roles; and
deploying pre-configured OBI Publisher content into OER.

4. Installing OBI Publisher
Installation Planning
OBI Publisher is part of Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 10g (OBI-EE). Download OBI-Publisher
10g Enterprise version 10.1.3.4.1.
In this installation, the Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher 10g (OBI Publisher) is installed as a
standalone under an OC4J Container.
Installation Steps
Unzip the downloaded OBI Publisher software
bipublisher_windows_x86_101341.zip into a
<software_home> folder.
Run
<software_home>WindowsOracle_Business_I
ntelligence_Publisher_Standalonesetup.exe to
start the wizard
The OBI Publisher Installer Wizard starts. Click
Next

5. Specify the folder to install the OBI Publisher.
This directory would be the <BIP Home>
For the demo installation, select the Basic
installation. This will create a new OC4J
container for OBI Publisher.

6. Select the password for the OC4J admin user.
User: oc4jadmin (default admin name)
Password: k1tty
Review the selected components as part of the
installation

7. Wizard configures the OBI Publisher
Review the installation summary.
The BI Publisher URL would be:
http://host:port/xmlpserver.
In this installation, it is:
http://WISK21357002.emrsn.org:9704/xmlpser
ver
Default Administrator login is:
Username: Administrator
Password: Administrator
Basic commands to start and stop:
Start: C:OBI10g_Homeoc4j_bibinoc4j.cmd -
start
Stop: C:OBI10g_Homejdkbinjava.exe -jar
C:OBI10g_Homeoc4j_bij2eehomeadmin.jar
ormi://localhost:23791 oc4jadmin k1tty -
shutdown force

8. Post-Installation Steps
Verify the BI Publisher Enterprise
Login to the console via the URL: http://wisk21357002.emrsn.org:9704/xmlpserver
User Name: Administrator
Password: Administrator
Administrator user is the default user to administer the BI Publisher.

9. Configuring OBI Publisher and OER Reports
Deploy OER-OBI Publisher Content to OBI Publisher Server
‘OER-OBI Publisher Content’ is an OBI Publisher Repository containing seeded OBI Publisher based reports for
Oracle Enterprise Repository. The default Repository for the OBI Publisher needs to be replaced with this OER-
OBI Publisher Content Repository. OER-OBI Publisher Content Repository is packaged into the OER 11g.
Stop the BIP OC4J Server
Identify the OER-OBI Publisher Content Repository
package in OER installation
It will be located under:
<oer_home>oer_111130coretoolssolutionsrepo
rtsBIP-Oracle.zip
Copy the BIP-Oracle.zip into a temporary directory
under the BIP Home.
C:OBI10g_HomeOER_BIP_Content
Unzip the file.

10. Identify the BI Publisher Server Configuration file
xmlp-server-config.xml
Config file:
C:OBI10g_Homeoc4j_bij2eehomeapplicationsx
mlpserverxmlpserverWEB-INF xmlp-server-
config.xml
Backup the Config file.
Edit the xmlp-server-config.xml to replace the
repository file_path variable with the value pointing
to the OER_OBI Publisher Content Repository that
was copied as:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xmlpConfig xml ns="http://xmlns .ora cle.com/oxp/xmlp">
<resource>
<file pa th="C:OBI10g_HomeOER_BIP_ContentXMLP"/>
</resource>
</xmlpConfi g>
Restart the BIP OC4J Server
Login to the OBI Publisher Enterprise and verify the changes in the Report Catalog
URL: http://wisk21357002.emrsn.org:9704/xmlpserver/login.jsp
User Name: OER
Password: OER_PWD
User OER (with default password OER_PWD) is the user that is built in with the OER-OBI Publisher Content. This
user will be configured in OER for Reports to connect to OBI Publisher during the report generation time.
Navigate to Reports > Shared Folders > OER to see the OER-OBI Publisher Content report types listed.

11. Configure OER JDBC Data Source within OBI Publisher
Login to OBI Publisher Enterprise as Administrator
Navigate to Admin > Data Sources > JDBC Connections. Select OER (for Oracle) data source and update the
database connection information pointing to the OER Database.
Enter the OER database schema authentication values. These are the values that were used while installing and
configuring the OER. This allows OBI Publisher to access the OER database to retrieve the data required to
generate the reports.
Data Source Name: OER
Driver Type: Oracle 11g
Driver Class: oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver
Connection String: jdbc:oracle:thin:@localhost:1521:odb11g
Database Username: OER_UID
Database User Password: OER_PWD

12. Test the connection and save the configurations.
Set the Server Cache Expiration Setting to set the refresh interval during the report rendering.
Navigate to Admin > System Maintenance > Server Configuration > Caching > Cache Expiration (in minutes)
Configure OER System Settings to Enable Reporting
Following fields are configured within OER Admin > System Settings > Reports level.
Enable Reports: True
Report Server URL: http://wisk21357002.emrsn.org:9704/xmlpserver/OER
Report Server Endpoint URL: http://wisk21357002.emrsn.org:9704/xmlpserver/services/PublicReportServices
Report Server Name: OER
Report Server Password: OER_PWD
Enable Excel Output for Reports: True

13. This completes the OBI Publisher configuration for OER Reports.
Next, when the user in OER navigates to Reports, and clicks on any report, the user is taken to the OBI Publisher
automatically and the reporting options are presented.

14. Appendix
References
OBI Publisher Installation Guide (E12690-01)
OER Configuration Guide (E16580-03)