Friday, November 9, 2012

OBI High Level 11g Architecture



Weblogic console
The Admin Server consists of a J2EE "Admin Console" application which is WebLogic's UI for Providing management functions across the WebLogic domin.

http://localhost:7001/console

WebLogic  Console is used for:
  • ·         Deploying J2EE application components
  • ·         Start/Restart/Stop of WebLogic Managed Servers
  • ·         Start/Restart/Stop of J2EE Deployments
  • ·         Diagnostics for J2EE Components
  • ·         Configuration of Authentication/Authorization (Users&Groups)


Enterprise Manger
Enterprise Manager provides System Management and monitoring capability across the whole Oracle BI domain.

http://localhost:7001/em

Enterprise Manger is used for:

  • ·         Monitoring and troubleshooting all WebLogic and BI System Components
  • ·         Start/Restart/Stop of BI System Components
  • ·         Deployment of RPD and Presentation Catalog
  • ·         Setting a Sub-set of NQSconfig.ini and instanceconfig.xml parameters
  • ·         Configuration of BI Delivers scheduler
  • ·         Capacity of BI Delivers scheduler
  • ·         Capacity Management
  • ·         Diagnostics
  •         Configuration of Application Roles/Policies
Managed Server

It contains deployed J2EE application components.
A WebLogic Domain can have multiple Managed Servers, each of which can run on a different machine.

Action Service : Services "Action Framework" requests.
BI Office: Integration with MS Excel / Powerpoint via the BI Office plug-in
BI Publisher: The BI Publisher application
Web Services SOA:  Services web service request for OBIEE.
BI Plugin: The main Oracle BI application component (/analytics)
Security: For Servicing OBIEE Security requests

Node Manager

A daemon process that provides remote start,stop,restart and monitoring capabilities for WebLogic process. Each machine running WebLogic will have one (and only one) Node Manager process.


OPMN "Oracle Process Manager Network" component responsible for remote start, stop, ping of System Components. OPMN can be controlled from the command line or via Entriprise Manager. OPMN is required on every OBIEE machine.