Installation and Configuration EPM 11

 



EPM Oracle Home

An Oracle home contains installed files necessary to host a specific product, and resides within the directory structure of the Middleware home. The EPM Oracle home contains files for EPM System products.

 

The default EPM Oracle home location is MIDDLEWARE_HOME/EPMSystem11R1. In addition, common internal components used by the producs are installed in EPM Oracle home. Choose the location carefully to ensure that the location has enough disk space for all of the products you are installing on that machine. You CANNOT change the location at a later time.

The EPM Oracle home location is defined in the system environment called EPM_ORACLE_HOME. The EPM Oracle home directory structure must be the same on each machine. Additionally, during configuration some products deploy components to MIDDLEWARE_HOME/user_projects/epmsystem1. Deplopyed components include the following:

• Data and applications
• Deployed Web applications
• Log files

 

Web applications are deployed in MIDDLEWARE_HOME/user_projects/domains/domainName.

Essbase and Oracle Process Manager and Notification (OPMN) Server

Oracle Process Manager and Notification server (OPMN) enables you to monitor and control the Essbase Agent process. You add Essbase Agent information to opmn.xml to enable OPMN to start, stop and restart the agent using the OPMN command line interface. OPMN can automatically restart the Essbase Agent when it becomes unresponsible, terminates unexpectedly, or becomes unreachable as determined by ping and notification operations.

If you configured more than one instance of Essbase Server on a single machine, each instance has its own OPMN, its own start scripts, and its own log files. You must update each instance’s copy of opmn.xml so that each OPMN has unique ports for communication.

See Appendix H, “OPMN Service Failover for Essbase Server” and Oracle Essbase Database Administrator’s Guide, “Managing Essbase Using OPMN“.

Downloading the Installation Files

Download the installation files from “Oracle Enterprise Performance Management System” page of the Oracle E-Delivery (http://edelivery.oracle.com) site into /download_location. Note that some files are posted by platform; make sure to download the files for the platform you will be using.

Review the Media Pack Readme on the Oracle E-Delivery web site to see which ZIP files to download depending on the products you own and the platform you are deploying those products on.

Unzip the EPM downloaded files into /download_location, if you are prompted with a message that any files may already exist be sure to click “Yes” to overwite the existing file(s). Be sure to unzip the files into the same exact directory /download_files. The assemblies are automatically unzipped into an /assemblies directory under /download_files. For information about specific assemblies related to the various product components see the section “Component Installation By Tier and Installation Assemblies” on page 29 of the “Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management System Installation and Configuration Guide RELEASE 11.1.2“. NOTE: Make sure to check that you are using the latest up to date Installation Guide, the one I am using for my installation during the month of December 2010 contains the notation “Updated: November 2010″ and I believe is the 1st update since this release shipped.

NOTE: Even though you need the EPM-Foundation Services ZIP files on each machine in the environment, install Foundation Servers Web applications on only one machine. On the machine you which you plan to administer the WebLogic Server, you must install all Web applications for all applications you plan to deploy on any machine in the environment. For more information see “Installing EPM System Products in a Distributed Environment” on page 89.

The /assemblies directory should include a subdirectory for each product that you want to install on the machine. Ensure that /assemblies directory looks as follows:

assemblies/

product

version

assembly.dat



 

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