1. Reporting and Oracle Business Intelligence Configuration Guide
  2. Configure Oracle Business Intelligence authentication
  3. Copy Oracle Empirica Signal authenticator files to the Oracle Business Intelligence Linux server

Copy Oracle Empirica Signal authenticator files to the Oracle Business Intelligence Linux server

To support different security environments, configuration variables may be initialized (hard-coded) into the initConfig.sh script file, or prompted for (interactively) in the configObiee.sh script file.

Any combination of hard-coding and interactive prompting is supported. For example, leaving password values blank in initConfig.sh would result in interactive prompts for the passwords in configObiee.sh.

  1. Create temporary working folders <tempFolder> and <linuxObieeDir> on the Linux machine hosting Oracle Business Intelligence.
  2. Log into the Linux server using a privileged account and switch to a non-privileged account using the following sudo command:
    sudo su - <non-privileged account>
  3. Unzip the Signal-9_1_<x_x_xxx>-OBIEE.zip into a temporary working folder <tempFolder>.

    The OBIEE directory is created in the <tempFolder> directory.

  4. Using your privileged account, issue the following command:

    sudo chmod -R 700 <tempFolder>

  5. From the Oracle Empirica Signal installation, copy the webvdme.properties file into the <tempFolder>/OBIEE/empiricaprovider directory.
  6. If necessary, explicitly provide the webvdme.properties file the permission to log in directly to the non-privileged account.

    Note:

    The SSO plugin settings in the webvdme.properties file must match the SSO settings used by Oracle Business Intelligence. For example, if SSO is not enabled on Oracle Business Intelligence, comment out the "sso" plugin lines in the webvdme.properties file.
  7. If the Oracle Business Intelligence Admin port is different than the default value of 9500, edit the <tempFolder>/OBIEE/empiricaprovider/obiee_auth.properties file, changing "port=9500" to "port=<AdminPort>", where "<AdminPort>" is the Oracle Business Intelligence Admin port.
  8. Edit the <tempFolder>/OBIEE/config/initConfig.sh file. Set each variable in the initialize configuration variables section and record the new value. For more information, see About configuring Oracle Business Intelligence authentication. If desired, leave sensitive configuration variables such as passwords blank. Blank values will be prompted for in the configObiee.sh script.
  9. Copy the <tempFolder>/OBIEE directory to the <linuxObieeDir> working directory on the Linux server. Record the full path to the <linuxObieeDir> directory.
  10. Using your privileged account, issue the following command:

    sudo chmod -R 700 <linuxObieeDir>

Parent topic: Configure Oracle Business Intelligence authentication