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sawserver log – short format
I posted a while ago about the sawserver (Presentation Services) log configuration file. Today I’m doing some work digging around why sawserver’s throwing an error and so increased the log detail. This...
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Multiple RPDs on one server – Part 2 – Presentation Services
Introduction In this article I plan to get sample and paint repositories hosted on a single server, using one BI Server instance and two Presentation Services instances. This is on both Unix (OEL 4)...
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AdminTool.exe /command
There’s an undocumented feature in AdminTool.exe that you can use the /command switch with a text file containing scripted commands to make changes to an RPD file (or create a new one). It’s...
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Syntax for AdminTool.exe command line script
Bringing together in one place all of the script syntax that I’ve found so far for using with OBIEE’s AdminTool.exe /command Details and examples on usage in the following blogs (where I compiled the...
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Scripts to extract information from OBIEE NQQuery.log
Here are a couple of little unix scripts that I wrote whilst developing my performance testing OBIEE method. They’re nothing particularly special, but may save you the couple of minutes it’d take to...
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OBIEE monitoring
Those of you who read my blog regularly may have noticed I have a slight obsession with the OBIEE systems management capability which is exposed through JMX. Venkat has blogged this week about JMX in...
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Adding OBIEE monitoring graphs into OAS
Introduction This is the third part of three detailed articles making up a mini-series about OBIEE monitoring. It demonstrates how to capture OBIEE performance information, and optionally graph it out...
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Changing LDAP settings in an OBIEE RPD with UDML
A chap called Kevin posted a comment on a previous posting of mine asking did you ever come across anything that could be used to change the LDAP server settings from a command line (admintool.exe,...
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Undocumented nqcmd parameters
I noticed on Nico’s wiki (which is amazing by the way, it has so much information in it) a bunch of additional parameters for nqcmd other than those which are displayed in the default helptext (nqcmd...
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Labelling Time axes in Excel
Excel may send chills down the spine of us when we hear users talking about its [ab]use, but it has its place in the toolset. For my money, it is a very good tool for knocking out graphs which look...
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