OBIEE 12c File Locations

C:\Oracle\Middleware\Oracle_Home\user_pr
ojects\domains\bi\bin---Start Stop

C:\Oracle\Middleware\Oracle_Home\user_pr
ojects\domains\bi\bitools\bin--------all bi
servers

The location of files and executable have been changed in OBIEE 12c. The OBIEE 11g have
different path for these files and executable.

There is no more start and stop links which used to appear in the Start Menu. Now we have
command line utility to start and stop OBIEE services. Mostly all the files comes under
user_projects folder whereas they are at different location during the OBIEE 11g.

Common scripts bin directory.  This contains the start, stop & status scripts along with the
data-model-cmd script for common tasks such as uploading/downloading repositories, updating
application roles & users & setting repository variables plus many other utility scripts:

<obiee_home>/u01/app/obiee/user_projects/domains/bi/bitools/bin

Weblogic scripting tool – wlst.sh – used for perform backups of the BI content (to ‘bar’ files)
and other weblogic tasks:

<obiee_home>/u01/app/obiee/oracle_common/common/bin
Service Instances. Where the metadata for each installed BI instance is stored. There is one sub-
directory for each instance and if you just performed a basic install there will just be one
directory, probably called ‘ssi’

<obiee_home>/user_projects/domains/bi/bidata/service_instances

Repository (RPD) files. These are kept beneath the Service Instances directory. Note you cannot
directly edit these – or copy them down to your pc and edit them there. You must use the data-
model-cmd to upload/download them:

<obiee_home>/user_projects/domains/bi/bidata/service_instances/ssi/metadata/da
tamodel/customizations

Web Catalog.  Where the dashboards, reports, prompts and all other user content is stored, along
with some catalog config files. The structure of these directories is identify to OBIEE 11g,
starting with root, then shared, users etc..

<obiee_home>/user_projects/domains/bi/bidata/service_instances/ssi/metadata/co
ntent/catalog

instanceconfig.xml. Normally you shouldn’t edit this file directly, you should use the mbean
browser in enterprise manager, but there are occasions when you might need to.

<obiee_home>/user_projects/domains/bi/config/fmwconfig/biconfig/OBIPS/instance
config.xml

NQSConfig.INI. Again normally you shouldn’t edit this file directly, you should use the mbean
browser in enterprise manager, but there are occasions when you might need to.

<obiee_home>/user_projects/domains/bi/config/fmwconfig/biconfig/OBIS/NQSConfig
.INI

obis.properties. This file can be used to define environment variables for OBI.

<obiee_home>/user_projects/domains/bi/config/fmwconfig/bienv/OBIS/obis.propert
ies

config.xml. Security file containing, amount other items, the security realm details from
weblogic – really handy if you have a LDAP issue and weblogic won’t start!

<obiee_home>/user_projects/domains/bi/config

fmwconfig. This is a folder contain many security files – system-jazn-data.xml, various SSO,
wallet and other security config files.

<obiee_home>/user_projects/domains/bi/config/fmwconfig

xmlp-server-config.xml Configuration file for BI Publisher and the Mobile App Designer.

<obiee_home>//user_projects/domains/bi/bidata/components/bipublisher/repositor
y/Admin/Configuration/xmlp-server-config.xml

odbc.ini, odbcinst.ini & tnsnames.ora.  All three of the data source connection files are located
together:

<obiee_home >/user_projects/domains/bi/config/fmwconfig/bienv/core

odbc template files – useful for copying the basic config for new data sources into the actual
odbc files used by OBIEE above:

<obiee_home >/bi/common/ODBC/Merant/7.1.4

Log files.  There are still separate log files for the five BI components and the Admin & BI
managed services within weblogic, but there are now all located together in the same area.

AdminServer Managed Service logs:

<obiee_home>/user_projects/domains/bi/servers/AdminServer/logs

bi_server1 Managed Service logs:

<obiee_home>/user_projects/domains/bi/servers/bi_server1/logs

BI Server logs:

<obiee_home>/user_projects/domains/bi/servers/obis1/logs

Presentation server logs:          

<obiee_home>/user_projects/domains/bi/servers/obips1/logs

Java Host logs:

<obiee_home>/user_projects/domains/bi/servers/obijh1/logs

Cluster Component logs:

<obiee_home>/user_projects/domains/bi/servers/obiccs1/logs

Scheduler logs:

<obiee_home>/user_projects/domains/bi/servers/obisch1/logs