Art of BI: OC4J Windows Service Configuration

By | In Art of BI, OBIEE, Oracle | November 17th, 2009

In my previous post on Essbase Studio Server & OC4J as a Windows Service I mainly tailored that information to Essbase Studio.  I received a bit of feedback on making sure I added the OC4J component in a similar fashion and here it is.  Don’t forget to watch the video tutorial for full disclosure.
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Installation

Here is the OC4J Windows Service files download.

I recommend extracting the Zip file to the following root path, ORACLEBI_HOMEserver.
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Similar to the Essbase Studio windows service files you will need to update the RegisterService.bat and ServiceRegistration.reg files to point to your installation’s correct OC4J file paths.  Once that has been confirmed execute the _init_BuildAppAsWinServiceWrapper.bat to launch the process.  Click ‘OK’ for all registry update prompts.

Gotchas

There are no gotchas to this solution that I have yet found.  If you spy any please leave a comment and I will seek to provide an update.  The main thing to note is that this solution was developed for the 10.1.3.4 release of OBIEE which is the 10.1.3.1.0 release of OC4J and the Embedded Java Containers.  If you run the following command in a command window you will be able to see the version of OC4J that your machine is running:

  • ORACLEBI_HOMEoc4j_bibinoc4j.cmd -version

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Conclusion

Again, once one knows how to use the inherent code for Windows Servers it is actually quite straightforward to implement this type of solution.

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Christian is an innovator in analytics and data warehousing design, best practices, and delivery. With more than fifteenyears of decision support and data warehousing with key experiences at Office Depot HQ, Sierra-Cedar, and Capgemini, he oversees the Oracle Analytics Practice which includes the technical development and delivery of Oracle BI collaboration software, data warehouse solutions, Oracle BI/EPM projects, and packaged analytics solutions at Datavail.

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3 thoughts on “Art of BI: OC4J Windows Service Configuration”

  1. Thanks – this is fantastic. Up until now we had a console session running OC4J on our development box that occasionally got stepped on – seemed klugy but didn't have the time to research making it a service – until now when I don't have to!

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  3. Hello,
    I've installed only the BI Publisher and OC4J to integrate with Siebel. I was trying to change the file: ServiceRegistration.reg, but there are many folders in this file, that I can't find at my installation folder. E.g.: "-Djava.library.path=H//OracleBI//server//bin".
    At my installation we dont have the "server" Folder in OracleBI folder. The folder H//OracleBI/Web doesn't exists at my home folder too.

    I have something like that on my installation:
    c:/BI_Publisher
    c:/BI_Publisher/cfgtoollogs
    c:/BI_Publisher/install
    c:/BI_Publisher/inventory
    c:/BI_Publisher/jdk
    c:/BI_Publisher/oc4j_bi
    c:/BI_Publisher/oPatch
    c:/BI_Publisher/XMLP

    and others folders.

    I'm using the 10.1.3.1.0 release of OC4J.

    Do you if it's possible to create a Windows Service ?

    Thanks for helping

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