Installing Multiple instances of Essbase on a single machine

Question

Dear gurus,
I have done the vanilla installation of Hyperion Suit of Products (11.1.2.2) on my VM machine (windows 2008 SP1, Its a Virtual Machine) ( I installed Foundation, EAS and just Essbase)
My First Essbase instance is running on default port 1423, and I tried to configure the second instance of Essbase using port 1424 and all donfiguration went successful. I can see the 2nd service of essbase up and running at services.msc
I followed the steps mentioned at:
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E17236_01/epm.1112/epm_install_11121/frameset.htm?essbaseAgentPortPanel.html
My 1st instance is installed at: D:\Oracle\Middleware\user_projects\epmsystem1
My 2nd instance is installed at: D:\Oracle\Middleware\user_projects\epmsystem2
Now the problem is that, I am able to Add and Connect to 1st instance of Essbase (SERVERNAME:1423) using the admin account in EAS,
but when I try to add the 2nd Instance of Essbase as  SERVERNAME:1424 using admin account , It throws following error:
Error on the EAS console:
admin    October 8, 2013 2:29:21 PM IST    com.essbase.eas.admin.defs.AdminCommands.AddServerToUserList    Succeeded
Essbase Server: SERVERNAME:1424    com.essbase.eas.essbase.defs.ServerCommands.Connect    October 8, 2013 2:29:22 PM IST
Error: 104: Invalid user name or password
Error: 1051012: User native://DN=cn=911,ou=People,dc=css,dc=hyperion,dc=com?USER does not exist
Error on Essbase.log (of 2nd instance):
[Tue Oct 08 10:59:22 2013]Local/ESSBASE0///7488/Error(1051012)
User native://DN=cn=911,ou=People,dc=css,dc=hyperion,dc=com?USER does not exist
[Tue Oct 08 10:59:22 2013]Local/ESSBASE0///7488/Warning(1051003)
Error 1051012 processing request [LoginEx] - disconnecting
EPM system Diagnostic run on 2nd instance shows following under "Essbase/Essbase":
FAILED
EAS: Essbase Server
Validating Essbase Server connection to SERVERNAME
Error: Cannot sign on as user already signed on.
Recommended Action: Check Essbase Server is started.
Can you please guide me what needs to be done to access this 2nd instance.
1) Do I need to have a separeate ADMIN user creation for this 2nd essbase instance? if Yes, then HOW?
2) Can I just copy the essbase.sec of 1st instance to 2nd instance?
Can You please point me to a some reference to have multiple independent instances of Essbase on same machine?
I sincerely thanks for your time to this request.
Warm Regards,
Amit

Answer 1

Super John,
Sincere thanks for your quick response As Suggested ,
I just followed the following steps and it worked
1) Run the "Stop server" (a shortcut on the desktop) to STOP the services
2) Run the D:\Oracle\Middleware\user_projects\epmsystem2\bin\stopEssbase.bat   to STOP the 2nd instance
3) Run the D:\Oracle\Middleware\user_projects\epmsystem1\bin\stopEssbase.bat   to STOP the 1st instance
4) For 2nd instance rename the Essbase.log and essbase.sec file to some dummy names e.g. like Essbase_old.log and essbase_old.sec
5) Now Run the "Start Server" (desktop shortcut)
6) Run the D:\Oracle\Middleware\user_projects\epmsystem2\bin\startEssbase.bat   to START the 2nd instance
7) Run the D:\Oracle\Middleware\user_projects\epmsystem1\bin\startEssbase.bat   to START the 1st instance
8) Add the 2nd and 1st instance to EAS
Warm Regards,
Amit Porwal